So you are thinking of moving to Syston in Leicestershire? 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 Syston 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 Syston the land of milk and honey or are Braunstone Town, Leicester and Oadby a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Syston
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of December 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Syston. 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 |
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Thurmaston | 70 |
Birstall | 53 |
Syston | 46 |
Wanlip | 41 |
Sileby | 26 |
Barkby Thorpe | 23 |
Barkby | 23 |
Rearsby | 8 |
Cossington | 6 |
Ratcliffe on the Wreake | 6 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Syston. 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 Syston. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Rushey Mead (Best) | 12847/32845 |
Troon | 13097/32845 |
Birstall Watermead | 17380/32845 |
Syston East | 17431/32845 |
Thurmaston | 17506/32845 |
Syston West | 17828/32845 |
Sileby | 18773/32845 |
Barrow and Sileby West | 20509/32845 |
Birstall Wanlip | 21238/32845 |
East Goscote (Worst) | 28224/32845 |
At Leicester's Clock Tower, smell the stench of BO & cheap perfume
Your Health in Syston
If you are thinking of moving to Syston, 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 Syston 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 |
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Leicester | 1.49% | 4.54% | 13.42% | 35.64% | 44.9% |
Charnwood (Syston) | 0.89% | 3.29% | 12.41% | 35.3% | 48.11% |
Blaby | 0.88% | 3.28% | 12.53% | 35.81% | 47.51% |
Oadby and Wigston | 1.09% | 3.71% | 13.4% | 36.62% | 45.19% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Syston. 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 Syston. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Rushey Mead (Best) | 12092/32845 |
Syston East | 18089/32845 |
Thurmaston | 19173/32845 |
Syston West | 19197/32845 |
East Goscote | 22927/32845 |
Sileby | 23323/32845 |
Birstall Watermead | 23621/32845 |
Barrow and Sileby West | 23968/32845 |
Birstall Wanlip | 30240/32845 |
Troon (Worst) | 8844/32845 |
Melton Mowbray: Neanderthals loiter outside McDonalds, with not one GCSE in Car Theft between them
Deprivation in Syston
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 Syston. 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 |
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Rushey Mead (Best) | 10934/32845 |
Thurmaston | 18812/32845 |
Syston East | 19559/32845 |
Syston West | 21154/32845 |
Sileby | 21201/32845 |
Birstall Watermead | 22748/32845 |
Barrow and Sileby West | 25640/32845 |
East Goscote | 25974/32845 |
Birstall Wanlip | 29095/32845 |
Troon (Worst) | 9947/32845 |
Hinckley: Pretensions To Adequacy
Melton Mowbray: Neanderthals loiter outside McDonalds, with not one GCSE in Car Theft between them
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Kibworth – The Drug Den of England
Coalville has the general aroma of a deceased town
Sileby – A depressing town with a shameful history
Coalville: most of the inhabitants walk around in a zombie like state
Melton Mowbray is the most bizarre & terrifying place I’ve ever lived