So you are thinking of moving to Norton Radstock in Somerset? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Norton Radstock is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Norton Radstock the land of milk and honey or are Frome, Midsomer Norton and Radstock a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Norton Radstock
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Norton Radstock. 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Clandown | 26 |
| Radstock | 23 |
| Tyning | 21 |
| Green Parlour | 9 |
| Ashgrove | 6 |
| Peasedown St John | 6 |
| New Buildings | 5 |
| Camerton | 2 |
| Shoscombe Vale | 2 |
| Foxcote | 2 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Norton Radstock. These statitics 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 collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Norton Radstock. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Radstock (Best) | 15972/32845 |
| Paulton | 18157/32845 |
| Midsomer Norton Redfield | 20263/32845 |
| Westfield | 21182/32845 |
| Coleford and Holcombe | 22239/32845 |
| Midsomer Norton North | 24362/32845 |
| Chewton Mendip and Ston Easton | 24613/32845 |
| Peasedown | 25303/32845 |
| High Littleton | 27155/32845 |
| Timsbury (Worst) | 29030/32845 |
Frome: Trapped in Vegan Hell
Your Health in Norton Radstock
If you are thinking of moving to Norton Radstock, 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 Norton Radstock compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiltshire | 0.87% | 3.18% | 12.15% | 34.05% | 49.75% |
| South Gloucestershire | 0.93% | 3.26% | 11.77% | 34.89% | 49.15% |
| Bath and North East Somerset (Norton Radstock) | 0.91% | 3.31% | 11.85% | 33.43% | 50.5% |
| Mendip | 1.01% | 3.79% | 13.38% | 35.02% | 46.81% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Norton Radstock. 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 Norton Radstock. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Radstock (Best) | 18001/32845 |
| Coleford and Holcombe | 18852/32845 |
| Westfield | 21237/32845 |
| Paulton | 21896/32845 |
| Midsomer Norton Redfield | 22457/32845 |
| Peasedown | 23697/32845 |
| Timsbury | 23970/32845 |
| High Littleton | 26079/32845 |
| Chewton Mendip and Ston Easton | 26089/32845 |
| Midsomer Norton North (Worst) | 26264/32845 |
Stoke-on-Trent a.k.a Joke-on-Trent
Deprivation in Norton Radstock
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 Norton Radstock. 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 |
|---|---|
| Radstock (Best) | 15783/32845 |
| Coleford and Holcombe | 18103/32845 |
| Chewton Mendip and Ston Easton | 19937/32845 |
| Westfield | 20345/32845 |
| Peasedown | 21261/32845 |
| Midsomer Norton Redfield | 23032/32845 |
| Paulton | 23989/32845 |
| Timsbury | 25448/32845 |
| Midsomer Norton North | 26975/32845 |
| High Littleton (Worst) | 27867/32845 |
Chard, the houses remind me of Cambridge… if it had been bombed
Minehead, Grockels come to here to paddle their hairy toes in the sea
Wells – Posh veneer, **** underbelly
Frome: Trapped in Vegan Hell
Weston-super-Mare, A Seaside ‘holiday town’ hellhole
Wiveliscombe: sh*te rolled down hill and collected in one glorious cesspit
Bridgwater: like an open cesspit, the thickest sh*ts tend to accumulate here
Chard: The town where the garbage men make deliveries
Yeovil – Jewel of the **** Crown