So you are thinking of moving to Paddock Wood in Kent? 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 Paddock Wood 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 Paddock Wood the land of milk and honey or are Royal Tunbridge Wells, Southborough and Tonbridge a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Paddock Wood
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of August 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Paddock Wood. 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 |
|---|---|
| Paddock Wood | 15 |
| Peckham Bush | 6 |
| Hale Street | 6 |
| Castle Hill | 6 |
| Beltring | 2 |
| Mile Oak | 2 |
| Pearson’s Green | 1 |
| Laddingford | 1 |
| Collier Street | 0 |
| Teise | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Paddock Wood. 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 Paddock Wood. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Medway (Best) | 12484/32845 |
| Sherwood | 14630/32845 |
| Marden and Yalding | 16909/32845 |
| Capel | 19934/32845 |
| Higham | 20288/32845 |
| Hadlow and East Peckham | 21851/32845 |
| Paddock Wood West | 22467/32845 |
| Paddock Wood East | 23555/32845 |
| Pembury | 23905/32845 |
| Brenchley and Horsmonden (Worst) | 25872/32845 |
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Your Health in Paddock Wood
If you are thinking of moving to Paddock Wood, 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 Paddock Wood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medway | 1.09% | 3.94% | 13% | 36.25% | 45.72% |
| Tonbridge and Malling | 0.86% | 3.09% | 11.81% | 34.33% | 49.92% |
| Sevenoaks | 0.87% | 3.11% | 11.47% | 33.37% | 51.17% |
| Tunbridge Wells (Paddock Wood) | 0.78% | 3.09% | 11.12% | 33.6% | 51.42% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Paddock Wood. 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 Paddock Wood. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Sherwood (Best) | 19370/32845 |
| Paddock Wood East | 21151/32845 |
| Marden and Yalding | 21787/32845 |
| Pembury | 22972/32845 |
| Medway | 23801/32845 |
| Hadlow and East Peckham | 24557/32845 |
| Higham | 24831/32845 |
| Paddock Wood West | 25283/32845 |
| Capel | 28016/32845 |
| Brenchley and Horsmonden (Worst) | 30940/32845 |
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Deprivation in Paddock Wood
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 Paddock Wood. 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 |
|---|---|
| Sherwood (Best) | 13206/32845 |
| Marden and Yalding | 15299/32845 |
| Medway | 20477/32845 |
| Hadlow and East Peckham | 21102/32845 |
| Capel | 21751/32845 |
| Brenchley and Horsmonden | 22279/32845 |
| Paddock Wood West | 22489/32845 |
| Paddock Wood East | 22959/32845 |
| Higham | 25098/32845 |
| Pembury (Worst) | 25537/32845 |
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