Is Tetbury, Gloucestershire a nice place to live?

Is Tetbury a nice place to live or is Tetbury rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Tetbury 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 Tetbury truly a nice place to live, or are Minchinhampton, Nailsworth and Malmesbury a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Tetbury?

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 Tetbury. 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
Tetbury 10
Tetbury Upton 6
Long Newnton 1
Avening 1
Shipton Moyne 0
Cherington 0
Brokenborough 0
Chedglow 0
Doughton 0
Culkerton 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Tetbury. 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 Tetbury 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 Sherston ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Sherston (Best) 31476/32845
Grumbolds Ash with Avening 30909/32845
Minchinhampton 30637/32845
Tetbury Town 30585/32845
Tetbury East & Rural 30563/32845
Thrupp 28937/32845
Minety 28367/32845
Malmesbury 26737/32845
Nailsworth 25992/32845
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Your Health in Tetbury

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Swindon 0.97% 3.61%
Gloucester 1.1% 3.79%
Stroud 0.94% 3.35%
Cotswold (Tetbury) 0.8% 3.01%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Sherston (Best) 29954/32845
Minety 29657/32845
Grumbolds Ash with Avening 28865/32845
Tetbury East & Rural 28218/32845
Thrupp 25702/32845
Tetbury Town 25557/32845
Malmesbury 24858/32845
Nailsworth 24614/32845
Minchinhampton 24068/32845

Deprivation in Tetbury

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 Tetbury. 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
Minety (Best) 26855/32845
Sherston 26473/32845
Nailsworth 26399/32845
Tetbury East & Rural 26139/32845
Tetbury Town 25961/32845
Malmesbury 25019/32845
Minchinhampton 24481/32845
Thrupp 23879/32845
Grumbolds Ash with Avening 20818/32845

Average rent in Tetbury

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Tetbury

If you are thinking of moving to Tetbury, 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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