Is Portishead and North Weston a nice place to live or is Portishead and North Weston rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Portishead and North Weston 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 Portishead and North Weston truly a nice place to live, or are Clevedon, Nailsea and Portishead a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Portishead and North Weston?
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 Portishead and North Weston. 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 |
|---|---|
| Lodway | 42 |
| Portishead | 37 |
| Stone-edge Batch | 24 |
| North Weston | 22 |
| Pill | 19 |
| Sheepway | 14 |
| Redcliffe Bay | 10 |
| Portbury | 7 |
| Clapton in Gordano | 5 |
| Lower Failand | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Portishead and North Weston. 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 Portishead and North Weston and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Gordano Valley (Best) | 26755/32845 |
| Nailsea Golden Valley | 26452/32845 |
| Portishead West | 26301/32845 |
| Nailsea Yeo | 24977/32845 |
| Nailsea Youngwood | 24879/32845 |
| Nailsea West End | 24731/32845 |
| Portishead East | 23149/32845 |
| Portishead South | 21604/32845 |
| Portishead North | 20606/32845 |
| Pill (Worst) | 14160/32845 |
Smacklesfield... I mean Macclesfield
Your Health in Portishead and North Weston
If you are thinking of moving to Portishead and North Weston, 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 Portishead and North Weston 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 (Portishead and North Weston) | 1.18% | 4.09% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Portishead and North Weston. 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 Portishead and North Weston. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Gordano Valley (Best) | 29295/32845 |
| Portishead North | 26890/32845 |
| Nailsea Golden Valley | 26204/32845 |
| Nailsea Youngwood | 25294/32845 |
| Portishead East | 25038/32845 |
| Portishead West | 25018/32845 |
| Nailsea West End | 24262/32845 |
| Nailsea Yeo | 22193/32845 |
| Pill | 22191/32845 |
| Portishead South (Worst) | 21300/32845 |
Portishead, on the muddy shores of the Severn Estuary
Deprivation in Portishead and North Weston
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 Portishead and North Weston. 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 |
| Portishead North | 29161/32845 |
| Gordano Valley | 28505/32845 |
| Portishead East | 28449/32845 |
| Nailsea Youngwood | 27107/32845 |
| Portishead West | 26798/32845 |
| Nailsea Yeo | 26033/32845 |
| Nailsea West End | 24816/32845 |
| Portishead South | 24315/32845 |
| Pill (Worst) | 21546/32845 |
Average rent in Portishead and North Weston
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Portishead and North Weston 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 Portishead and North Weston.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Portishead and North Weston
If you are thinking of moving to Portishead and North Weston, 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.
