Is Painswick, Gloucestershire a nice place to live?

Is Painswick a nice place to live or is Painswick rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Painswick 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 Painswick truly a nice place to live, or are Minchinhampton, Stonehouse and Stroud a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Painswick?

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 Painswick. 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
Painswick 3
Jack’s Green 3
Longridge 3
Paradise 2
Cranham 2
Sheepscombe 1
Pitchcombe 0
Stockend 0
Edge 0
Horsepools 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Painswick. 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 Painswick 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 Randwick, Whiteshill and Ruscombe ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Randwick, Whiteshill and Ruscombe (Best) 32300/32845
Bisley 31899/32845
Rodborough 30907/32845
Brockworth West 24951/32845
Stroud Uplands 20763/32845
Stroud Trinity 20280/32845
Stroud Valley 15083/32845
Stroud Slade 12958/32845
Stroud Farmhill and Paganhill 12666/32845
Stroud Central (Worst) 11387/32845
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Your Health in Painswick

If you are thinking of moving to Painswick, 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 Painswick compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;

Town Very Bad Bad
Gloucester 1.1% 3.79%
Stroud (Painswick) 0.94% 3.35%
Cheltenham 0.85% 3.14%
Tewkesbury 0.99% 3.3%

The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Painswick. 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 Painswick. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;

Ward Average rank in England
Bisley (Best) 30431/32845
Rodborough 27536/32845
Randwick, Whiteshill and Ruscombe 27317/32845
Stroud Valley 25269/32845
Stroud Uplands 24896/32845
Stroud Central 22077/32845
Stroud Trinity 21981/32845
Stroud Slade 21464/32845
Brockworth West 20877/32845
Stroud Farmhill and Paganhill (Worst) 17181/32845
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Deprivation in Painswick

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 Painswick. 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
Bisley (Best) 30711/32845
Rodborough 29718/32845
Randwick, Whiteshill and Ruscombe 28312/32845
Stroud Uplands 21950/32845
Brockworth West 21058/32845
Stroud Valley 20336/32845
Stroud Central 17913/32845
Stroud Trinity 17775/32845
Stroud Slade 16182/32845
Stroud Farmhill and Paganhill (Worst) 15899/32845

Average rent in Painswick

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Painswick 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 Painswick.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Painswick

If you are thinking of moving to Painswick, 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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