Is Potters Bar, Hertfordshire a nice place to live?

Is Potters Bar a nice place to live or is Potters Bar rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Potters Bar 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 Potters Bar truly a nice place to live, or are Barnet, Borehamwood and Hatfield a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Potters Bar?

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 Potters Bar. 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
Potters Bar 35
Monken Hadley 34
South Hatfield 32
Marshmoor 22
Bell Bar 4
Brookmans Park 2
South Mimms 1
Bentley Heath 1
Bullen’s Green 1
Dancers Hill 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Potters Bar. 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 Potters Bar 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 Northaw and Cuffley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Northaw and Cuffley (Best) 23811/32845
Potters Bar Furzefield 21944/32845
Potters Bar Parkfield 17478/32845
Bentley Heath & The Royds 17283/32845
Borehamwood Kenilworth 17113/32845
High Barnet 14954/32845
East Barnet 14817/32845
Welham Green and Hatfield South 13897/32845
Shenley 13389/32845
Potters Bar Oakmere (Worst) 10688/32845
Reader Opinion:

Potters Bar: words almost fail me describing this hole of despair

Your Health in Potters Bar

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Barnet 1.14% 3.42%
Haringey 1.48% 4.18%
Hertsmere (Potters Bar) 0.94% 3.21%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Northaw and Cuffley (Best) 30497/32845
High Barnet 29986/32845
Potters Bar Furzefield 27492/32845
East Barnet 26629/32845
Potters Bar Parkfield 25649/32845
Shenley 25385/32845
Bentley Heath & The Royds 25216/32845
Potters Bar Oakmere 21846/32845
Borehamwood Kenilworth 21400/32845
Welham Green and Hatfield South (Worst) 19601/32845
Reader Opinion:

Hatfield, take the average new town. Kick it about a bit & remove all the leisure amenities

Deprivation in Potters Bar

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 Potters Bar. 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
Northaw and Cuffley (Best) 26803/32845
Potters Bar Furzefield 25033/32845
High Barnet 23913/32845
Potters Bar Parkfield 23720/32845
Bentley Heath & The Royds 21175/32845
East Barnet 19895/32845
Shenley 19718/32845
Welham Green and Hatfield South 17738/32845
Borehamwood Kenilworth 17526/32845
Potters Bar Oakmere (Worst) 15862/32845

Average rent in Potters Bar

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Potters Bar

If you are thinking of moving to Potters Bar, 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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