Is South Woodham Ferrers a nice place to live or is South Woodham Ferrers rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that South Woodham Ferrers 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 South Woodham Ferrers truly a nice place to live, or are Hockley, Leigh on Sea and Rayleigh a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in South Woodham Ferrers?
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 South Woodham Ferrers. 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 |
|---|---|
| South Woodham Ferrers | 16 |
| Battlesbridge | 13 |
| Mill Hill | 10 |
| Rawreth | 6 |
| South Fambridge | 4 |
| Farther Howegreen | 2 |
| Rettendon | 0 |
| Chapel Row | 0 |
| Cold Norton | 0 |
| Cock Clarks | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for South Woodham Ferrers. 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 South Woodham Ferrers and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Hockley (Best) | 28993/32845 |
| Sweyne Park and Grange | 28181/32845 |
| South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood | 27350/32845 |
| Trinity | 27300/32845 |
| Downhall and Rawreth | 26990/32845 |
| South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville | 26760/32845 |
| Hullbridge | 24771/32845 |
| Purleigh | 22073/32845 |
| Wheatley | 18335/32845 |
| Rettendon and Runwell (Worst) | 12251/32845 |
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Your Health in South Woodham Ferrers
If you are thinking of moving to South Woodham Ferrers, 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 South Woodham Ferrers compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Town | Very Bad | Bad |
|---|---|---|
| Southend-on-Sea | 1.26% | 4.48% |
| Chelmsford (South Woodham Ferrers) | 0.81% | 2.84% |
| Castle Point | 1.26% | 4.4% |
| Rochford | 0.94% | 3.38% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for South Woodham Ferrers. 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 South Woodham Ferrers. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville (Best) | 30595/32845 |
| Hockley | 29502/32845 |
| Wheatley | 28695/32845 |
| Trinity | 28591/32845 |
| Downhall and Rawreth | 28275/32845 |
| Sweyne Park and Grange | 27778/32845 |
| Purleigh | 27565/32845 |
| Rettendon and Runwell | 27061/32845 |
| South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood | 26895/32845 |
| Hullbridge (Worst) | 26638/32845 |
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Deprivation in South Woodham Ferrers
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 South Woodham Ferrers. 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 |
|---|---|
| Hockley (Best) | 29503/32845 |
| South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville | 29358/32845 |
| Trinity | 28200/32845 |
| South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood | 26452/32845 |
| Wheatley | 25949/32845 |
| Sweyne Park and Grange | 25595/32845 |
| Downhall and Rawreth | 25559/32845 |
| Hullbridge | 24397/32845 |
| Purleigh | 19017/32845 |
| Rettendon and Runwell (Worst) | 18068/32845 |
Average rent in South Woodham Ferrers
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for South Woodham Ferrers 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 South Woodham Ferrers.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in South Woodham Ferrers
If you are thinking of moving to South Woodham Ferrers, 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.
