Is Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire a nice place to live?

Is Shipston on Stour a nice place to live or is Shipston on Stour rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Shipston on Stour 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 Shipston on Stour truly a nice place to live, or are Chipping Campden, Moreton in Marsh and Middle Quinton a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Shipston on Stour?

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 Shipston on Stour. 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
Shipston-on-Stour 10
Honington 9
Upper Brailes 3
Halford 1
Barcheston 1
Armscote 0
Stour 0
Tidmington 0
Blackwell 0
Todenham 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Shipston on Stour. 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 Shipston on Stour 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 Blockley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Blockley (Best) 30706/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 29867/32845
Campden & Vale 29074/32845
Shipston North 28496/32845
Ettington 28467/32845
Quinton 28446/32845
Brailes & Compton 28265/32845
Moreton East 28197/32845
Moreton West 28197/32845
Shipston South (Worst) 27276/32845

Your Health in Shipston on Stour

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Wychavon 0.98% 3.71%
Stratford-on-Avon (Shipston on Stour) 0.88% 3.36%
Redditch 1.23% 4.18%
West Oxfordshire 0.7% 2.81%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Ettington (Best) 29547/32845
Brailes & Compton 29453/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 28300/32845
Campden & Vale 27718/32845
Blockley 27567/32845
Quinton 26331/32845
Moreton East 24005/32845
Moreton West 24005/32845
Shipston South 23203/32845
Shipston North (Worst) 23079/32845

Deprivation in Shipston on Stour

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 Shipston on Stour. 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
Campden & Vale (Best) 25524/32845
Shipston North 24630/32845
Quinton 24161/32845
Shipston South 23360/32845
Ettington 22870/32845
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone 22078/32845
Blockley 21936/32845
Moreton East 21165/32845
Moreton West 21165/32845
Brailes & Compton (Worst) 18231/32845

Average rent in Shipston on Stour

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Shipston on Stour

If you are thinking of moving to Shipston on Stour, 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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