Is Salisbury, Wiltshire a nice place to live?

Is Salisbury a nice place to live or is Salisbury rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Salisbury 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 Salisbury truly a nice place to live, or are Fordingbridge, Amesbury and Wilton a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Salisbury?

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 Salisbury. 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
Salisbury 82
Bishopdown 72
Laverstock 66
Milford 48
Stratford Sub Castle 44
Bemerton Heath 40
Bemerton 31
Churchfields 21
Fugglestone St Peter 6
Harnham 4

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Salisbury. 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 Salisbury 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 Bourne and Woodford Valley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Bourne and Woodford Valley (Best) 24775/32845
Fovant and Chalke Valley 24057/32845
Salisbury St Mark's and Bishopdown 23906/32845
Salisbury St Francis and Stratford 22224/32845
Salisbury St Paul's 20027/32845
Laverstock, Ford and Old Sarum 19893/32845
Salisbury Fisherton and Bemerton Village 19743/32845
Salisbury St Martin's and Cathedral 14716/32845
Salisbury Bemerton 10598/32845
Salisbury St Edmund and Milford (Worst) 9980/32845
Reader Opinion:

Andover: gulag of Hampshire

Your Health in Salisbury

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Wiltshire (Salisbury) 0.87% 3.18%
Southampton 1.2% 3.89%
New Forest 1.08% 3.81%
Eastleigh 0.87% 3.05%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Fovant and Chalke Valley (Best) 28676/32845
Laverstock, Ford and Old Sarum 27906/32845
Salisbury St Francis and Stratford 24700/32845
Bourne and Woodford Valley 23506/32845
Salisbury Fisherton and Bemerton Village 22197/32845
Salisbury St Mark's and Bishopdown 21926/32845
Salisbury St Paul's 21697/32845
Salisbury St Martin's and Cathedral 20619/32845
Salisbury St Edmund and Milford 13876/32845
Salisbury Bemerton (Worst) 13420/32845
Reader Opinion:

Salisbury... Dear God, what a boring, depressing dump!

Deprivation in Salisbury

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 Salisbury. 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
Salisbury St Francis and Stratford (Best) 25626/32845
Bourne and Woodford Valley 24420/32845
Salisbury St Paul's 24312/32845
Salisbury St Mark's and Bishopdown 24043/32845
Laverstock, Ford and Old Sarum 23925/32845
Salisbury Fisherton and Bemerton Village 21812/32845
Salisbury St Martin's and Cathedral 21140/32845
Fovant and Chalke Valley 17314/32845
Salisbury St Edmund and Milford 14966/32845
Salisbury Bemerton (Worst) 9769/32845

Average rent in Salisbury

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Salisbury

If you are thinking of moving to Salisbury, 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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