So you are thinking of moving to Portishead 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 Portishead 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 Portishead the land of milk and honey or are Clevedon, Nailsea and Portishead and North Weston a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Portishead
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 Portishead. 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 |
|---|---|
| Portishead | 15 |
| North Weston | 11 |
| Stone-edge Batch | 9 |
| Sheepway | 3 |
| Norton’s Wood | 2 |
| Walton-in-Gordano | 2 |
| Redcliffe Bay | 1 |
| Clapton in Gordano | 1 |
| Portbury | 0 |
| Farley | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Portishead. 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 Portishead. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Portishead North (Best) | 20606/32845 |
| Portishead South | 21604/32845 |
| Portishead East | 23149/32845 |
| Nailsea West End | 24731/32845 |
| Nailsea Youngwood | 24879/32845 |
| Clevedon Walton | 24924/32845 |
| Nailsea Yeo | 24977/32845 |
| Portishead West | 26301/32845 |
| Nailsea Golden Valley | 26452/32845 |
| Gordano Valley (Worst) | 26755/32845 |
Smacklesfield... I mean Macclesfield
Your Health in Portishead
If you are thinking of moving to Portishead, 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol, City of | 1.27% | 4.22% | 12.25% | 33.46% | 48.81% |
| Caerphilly | 2.14% | 7.18% | 15.93% | 30.35% | 44.4% |
| Newport | 1.76% | 5.6% | 14.09% | 32.81% | 45.75% |
| North Somerset (Portishead) | 1.18% | 4.09% | 13.66% | 34.77% | 46.31% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Portishead. 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. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Portishead South (Best) | 21300/32845 |
| Nailsea Yeo | 22193/32845 |
| Nailsea West End | 24262/32845 |
| Clevedon Walton | 24423/32845 |
| Portishead West | 25018/32845 |
| Portishead East | 25038/32845 |
| Nailsea Youngwood | 25294/32845 |
| Nailsea Golden Valley | 26204/32845 |
| Portishead North | 26890/32845 |
| Gordano Valley (Worst) | 29295/32845 |
Portishead, on the muddy shores of the Severn Estuary
Deprivation in Portishead
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. 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 |
|---|---|
| Portishead South (Best) | 24315/32845 |
| Nailsea West End | 24816/32845 |
| Nailsea Yeo | 26033/32845 |
| Portishead West | 26798/32845 |
| Nailsea Youngwood | 27107/32845 |
| Clevedon Walton | 27972/32845 |
| Portishead East | 28449/32845 |
| Gordano Valley | 28505/32845 |
| Portishead North | 29161/32845 |
| Nailsea Golden Valley (Worst) | 30580/32845 |
Portishead, on the muddy shores of the Severn Estuary
Nailsea: Where the old come to die
Bridgwater, take your time driving through (with the doors locked)
Weston-super-Mare, A Seaside ‘holiday town’ hellhole
Wiveliscombe: sh*te rolled down hill and collected in one glorious cesspit
Yeovil, Chavtopia ten years later- the final chavter
Bath, Somerset – needs a good clean!
Chard, the houses remind me of Cambridge… if it had been bombed
Chard: The town where the garbage men make deliveries