So you are thinking of moving to Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire? 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 Sawbridgeworth 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 Sawbridgeworth the land of milk and honey or are Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Ware a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Sawbridgeworth
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of July 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Sawbridgeworth. 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 |
|---|---|
| Campions | 31 |
| Stort | 16 |
| Spellbrook | 7 |
| Gaston Green | 7 |
| Little Hallingbury | 5 |
| Latchmore Bank | 5 |
| Lower Sheering | 4 |
| Allen’s Green | 1 |
| Sheering | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Sawbridgeworth. 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 Sawbridgeworth. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Old Harlow (Best) | 13467/32845 |
| Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village | 14428/32845 |
| Hunsdon | 15055/32845 |
| Sawbridgeworth | 21351/32845 |
| Bishop's Stortford All Saints | 23568/32845 |
| Much Hadham | 25167/32845 |
| Bishop's Stortford South | 27589/32845 |
| Lower Sheering | 29959/32845 |
| Netteswell | 6837/32845 |
| Mark Hall (Worst) | 9808/32845 |
Hertford: fetid with the haughty stench of smug self righteousness
Your Health in Sawbridgeworth
If you are thinking of moving to Sawbridgeworth, 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 Sawbridgeworth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epping Forest | 1.04% | 3.56% | 12.38% | 33.75% | 49.26% |
| Harlow | 1.21% | 4.15% | 13.67% | 35.85% | 45.11% |
| Broxbourne | 1.04% | 3.59% | 12.33% | 35.33% | 47.71% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Sawbridgeworth. 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 Sawbridgeworth. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Netteswell (Best) | 10354/32845 |
| Mark Hall | 11101/32845 |
| Old Harlow | 17626/32845 |
| Much Hadham | 26789/32845 |
| Sawbridgeworth | 27413/32845 |
| Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village | 27827/32845 |
| Hunsdon | 30097/32845 |
| Bishop's Stortford All Saints | 31347/32845 |
| Bishop's Stortford South | 31742/32845 |
| Lower Sheering (Worst) | 32029/32845 |
Waltham Abbey, Essex aka "d-abbey"
Deprivation in Sawbridgeworth
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 Sawbridgeworth. 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 |
|---|---|
| Netteswell (Best) | 10360/32845 |
| Mark Hall | 11178/32845 |
| Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village | 15633/32845 |
| Old Harlow | 19602/32845 |
| Hunsdon | 20049/32845 |
| Much Hadham | 20051/32845 |
| Lower Sheering | 27817/32845 |
| Sawbridgeworth | 28252/32845 |
| Bishop's Stortford All Saints | 30192/32845 |
| Bishop's Stortford South (Worst) | 31074/32845 |
