So you are thinking of moving to St Mary Cray in London? 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 St Mary Cray 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 St Mary Cray the land of milk and honey or are Bexley, Orpington and Swanley a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in St Mary Cray
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of February 2021 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around St Mary Cray. 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 |
|---|---|
| Sidcup | 54 |
| St Paul’s Cray | 53 |
| St Mary Cray | 52 |
| Broom Hill | 40 |
| Ramsden | 35 |
| Kevingtown | 32 |
| Crockenhill | 15 |
| Hockenden | 13 |
| Ruxley | 11 |
| Chislehurst | 8 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for St Mary Cray. 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 St Mary Cray. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom (Best) | 26583/32845 |
| Farnborough and Crofton | 25569/32845 |
| Longlands | 23869/32845 |
| Petts Wood and Knoll | 23141/32845 |
| Sidcup | 18932/32845 |
| St Mary's & St James | 16199/32845 |
| Chislehurst | 14744/32845 |
| Orpington | 14721/32845 |
| Cray Valley West | 8295/32845 |
| Cray Valley East (Worst) | 6718/32845 |
Dartford: once a thriving market town, now in decline
Your Health in St Mary Cray
If you are thinking of moving to St Mary Cray, 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 St Mary Cray 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich | 1.27% | 4.09% | 11.54% | 32.95% | 50.14% |
| Bromley (St Mary Cray) | 0.91% | 3.2% | 11.67% | 34.12% | 50.1% |
| Bexley | 1.09% | 3.74% | 12.51% | 34.68% | 47.98% |
| Dartford | 1.03% | 3.4% | 12.16% | 34.86% | 48.55% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for St Mary Cray. 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 St Mary Cray. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Petts Wood and Knoll (Best) | 31659/32845 |
| Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom | 29390/32845 |
| Chislehurst | 29153/32845 |
| Farnborough and Crofton | 28998/32845 |
| Orpington | 26524/32845 |
| Longlands | 25088/32845 |
| St Mary's & St James | 23898/32845 |
| Sidcup | 21706/32845 |
| Cray Valley West | 18559/32845 |
| Cray Valley East (Worst) | 18305/32845 |
Orpington has been growing in recent years to be one of the most chavy areas imaginable.
Deprivation in St Mary Cray
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 St Mary Cray. 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 |
|---|---|
| Petts Wood and Knoll (Best) | 30222/32845 |
| Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom | 28176/32845 |
| Farnborough and Crofton | 27122/32845 |
| Chislehurst | 24791/32845 |
| Longlands | 23385/32845 |
| St Mary's & St James | 21762/32845 |
| Orpington | 19767/32845 |
| Sidcup | 19384/32845 |
| Cray Valley East | 11423/32845 |
| Cray Valley West (Worst) | 10706/32845 |
