Is Ryde, Isle of Wight a nice place to live?

Is Ryde a nice place to live or is Ryde rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Ryde 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 Ryde truly a nice place to live, or are Appley, Brading and Sandown a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Ryde?

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 Ryde. 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
Ryde 94
Appley 76
St John’s Park 76
Pelhamfield 68
Oakfield 63
Weeks 63
Binstead 25
Pondwell 20
Fishbourne 4
Ashey 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Ryde. 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 Ryde 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 Binstead and Fishbourne ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Binstead and Fishbourne (Best) 29419/32845
Nettlestone and Seaview 26494/32845
Wootton Bridge 26076/32845
Brading, St Helens and Bembridge 25701/32845
Ryde East 17589/32845
Ryde West 17054/32845
Alverstoke 16113/32845
Ryde South 14258/32845
Ryde North West 9058/32845
Ryde North East (Worst) 7528/32845

Your Health in Ryde

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Portsmouth 1.15% 3.9%
Isle of Wight (Ryde) 1.47% 5.01%
Fareham 0.9% 3.13%
Gosport 0.99% 3.89%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Nettlestone and Seaview (Best) 22277/32845
Brading, St Helens and Bembridge 21927/32845
Alverstoke 20680/32845
Binstead and Fishbourne 20230/32845
Wootton Bridge 17371/32845
Ryde West 15147/32845
Ryde East 12917/32845
Ryde South 12601/32845
Ryde North East 9834/32845
Ryde North West (Worst) 9629/32845

Deprivation in Ryde

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 Ryde. 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
Alverstoke (Best) 25001/32845
Binstead and Fishbourne 24639/32845
Nettlestone and Seaview 23043/32845
Brading, St Helens and Bembridge 19937/32845
Wootton Bridge 18278/32845
Ryde West 11396/32845
Ryde East 9211/32845
Ryde South 7415/32845
Ryde North West 7333/32845
Ryde North East (Worst) 6482/32845

Average rent in Ryde

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Ryde

If you are thinking of moving to Ryde, 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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