Is Nailsea, Somerset a nice place to live?

Is Nailsea a nice place to live or is Nailsea rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Nailsea is on the up an up, it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Nailsea truly a nice place to live, or are Clevedon, Portishead and Portishead and North Weston a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Nailsea?

Using the latest Police street crime figures (typically from 3 months ago) we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Nailsea. Naturally the more urban and more central areas will have a higher rate of crime, but often you can be surprised when that is not the case and that is the area you want to move to.
Policing Area Voilent Crimes
Stone-edge Batch 18
Backwell Common 12
Claverham 10
Backwell 7
Backwell Green 6
Farleigh 6
Norton’s Wood 6
Brockley 5
Kenn Moor Gate 5
Tickenham 2

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Nailsea. These statistics are published by the government every 2-3 years. They are a measure of how likely you are to be a victim of personal or material crime in an area, such as muggings or burglary. We've taken the rank average for wards in and around Nailsea and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.

You least likely to be a victim of crime in the Nailsea Golden Valley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Nailsea Golden Valley (Best) 26452/32845
Clevedon South 25342/32845
Nailsea Yeo 24977/32845
Clevedon Walton 24924/32845
Nailsea Youngwood 24879/32845
Nailsea West End 24731/32845
Clevedon Yeo 24282/32845
Yatton 22820/32845
Clevedon West 19585/32845
Clevedon East (Worst) 19033/32845
Reader Opinion:

Portishead, on the muddy shores of the Severn Estuary

Your Health in Nailsea

If you are thinking of moving to Nailsea, you want to know if the place is likely to put you on a downward spiral of ill health. We've taken the healh question from the latest census to find out and how Nailsea compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;

Town Very Bad Bad
Bristol, City of 1.27% 4.22%
Newport 1.76% 5.6%
South Gloucestershire 0.93% 3.26%
North Somerset (Nailsea) 1.18% 4.09%

The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Nailsea. They measures the risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health, lovely! We've collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Nailsea. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;

Ward Average rank in England
Nailsea Golden Valley (Best) 26204/32845
Nailsea Youngwood 25294/32845
Clevedon Walton 24423/32845
Nailsea West End 24262/32845
Yatton 23553/32845
Clevedon Yeo 23482/32845
Nailsea Yeo 22193/32845
Clevedon East 20786/32845
Clevedon South 20521/32845
Clevedon West (Worst) 20503/32845
Reader Opinion:

Smacklesfield... I mean Macclesfield

Deprivation in Nailsea

Using the English Indices of Deprivation statistics, we've collated the average Index of Multiple Deprivation rank of all the LSOAs in the wards in and around Nailsea. In layman's terms, this is how rough the ward is based on mutiple measures of deprivation including; employment, income, health, crime, housing and outside space.

Ward Average rank in England
Nailsea Golden Valley (Best) 30580/32845
Clevedon Walton 27972/32845
Nailsea Youngwood 27107/32845
Clevedon Yeo 26059/32845
Nailsea Yeo 26033/32845
Nailsea West End 24816/32845
Yatton 24712/32845
Clevedon South 23070/32845
Clevedon East 21844/32845
Clevedon West (Worst) 21127/32845

Average rent in Nailsea

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Nailsea are dated September 2021. They are split into three figures, the lower quartile, mean and upper quartile. If you recieve housing benefit or the housing benefit section of Universal Credit, the lower quartile is at the top limit of what would be affordable. The mean is the average you'd expect to pay for a rental property and the upper quartile is the average rental cost of the most expensive 25% of properties in Nailsea.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Nailsea

If you are thinking of moving to Nailsea, you'll want to know how much you can earn in a job in the town. The government publish regular statistics on gross weekly pay and pay per hour.

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