Is Tewkesbury a nice place to live or is Tewkesbury rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Tewkesbury 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 Tewkesbury truly a nice place to live, or are Cheltenham, Netherton and Upton upon Severn a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Tewkesbury?
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 Tewkesbury. 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 |
|---|---|
| Walton Cardiff | 45 |
| Mitton | 40 |
| Tewkesbury | 37 |
| Ashchurch | 18 |
| Northway | 18 |
| Avon | 14 |
| Homedowns | 11 |
| Bredon’s Hardwick | 7 |
| Shuthonger | 0 |
| Bushley | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Tewkesbury. 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 Tewkesbury and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Northway (Best) | 31478/32845 |
| Cleeve Grange | 29933/32845 |
| Tewkesbury East | 29859/32845 |
| Ripple | 28926/32845 |
| Bredon | 28909/32845 |
| Cleeve West | 27448/32845 |
| Severn Vale North | 27192/32845 |
| South Bredon Hill | 24356/32845 |
| Tewkesbury North & Twyning | 22857/32845 |
| Tewkesbury South (Worst) | 16599/32845 |
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Your Health in Tewkesbury
If you are thinking of moving to Tewkesbury, 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 Tewkesbury compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Town | Very Bad | Bad |
|---|---|---|
| Gloucester | 1.1% | 3.79% |
| Worcester | 1.03% | 3.83% |
| Cheltenham | 0.85% | 3.14% |
| Tewkesbury (Tewkesbury) | 0.99% | 3.3% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Tewkesbury. 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 Tewkesbury. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Severn Vale North (Best) | 28844/32845 |
| Bredon | 28831/32845 |
| South Bredon Hill | 28749/32845 |
| Tewkesbury East | 28271/32845 |
| Cleeve West | 25704/32845 |
| Ripple | 24243/32845 |
| Cleeve Grange | 23775/32845 |
| Tewkesbury North & Twyning | 20844/32845 |
| Northway | 19851/32845 |
| Tewkesbury South (Worst) | 15025/32845 |
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Deprivation in Tewkesbury
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 Tewkesbury. 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 |
|---|---|
| Bredon (Best) | 30292/32845 |
| Tewkesbury East | 28503/32845 |
| Cleeve Grange | 27709/32845 |
| Cleeve West | 26745/32845 |
| South Bredon Hill | 24432/32845 |
| Tewkesbury North & Twyning | 22950/32845 |
| Northway | 19963/32845 |
| Severn Vale North | 19449/32845 |
| Ripple | 18069/32845 |
| Tewkesbury South (Worst) | 14458/32845 |
Average rent in Tewkesbury
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Tewkesbury 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 Tewkesbury.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Tewkesbury
If you are thinking of moving to Tewkesbury, 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.
