Is Tidworth, Wiltshire a nice place to live?

Is Tidworth a nice place to live or is Tidworth rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Tidworth 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 Tidworth truly a nice place to live, or are Andover, Amesbury and Ludgershall a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Tidworth?

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 Tidworth. 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 Tidworth 12
North Tidworth 12
Faberstown 10
Fyfield 1
Shipton Bellinger 1
Great Shoddesden 0
Collingbourne Ducis 0
Cadley (near Marlborough) 0
Collingbourne Kingston 0
Little Shoddesden 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Tidworth. 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 Tidworth 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 Bellinger ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Bellinger (Best) 30289/32845
Charlton & the Pentons 27624/32845
Bulford, Allington and Figheldean 26446/32845
Durrington and Larkhill 25988/32845
Tidworth 24687/32845
The Collingbournes and Netheravon 24179/32845
Amesbury East 22115/32845
Ludgershall and Perham Down 21275/32845
Amesbury West 19891/32845
Andover Harroway (Worst) 16305/32845
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Your Health in Tidworth

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Wiltshire (Tidworth) 0.87% 3.18%
Eastleigh 0.87% 3.05%
West Berkshire 0.68% 2.48%
Test Valley 0.8% 2.97%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Charlton & the Pentons (Best) 28151/32845
The Collingbournes and Netheravon 26672/32845
Amesbury East 25193/32845
Bellinger 25168/32845
Bulford, Allington and Figheldean 24457/32845
Durrington and Larkhill 24145/32845
Tidworth 21444/32845
Andover Harroway 20825/32845
Ludgershall and Perham Down 20701/32845
Amesbury West (Worst) 20407/32845
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Deprivation in Tidworth

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 Tidworth. 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
Durrington and Larkhill (Best) 26619/32845
Charlton & the Pentons 25347/32845
Bulford, Allington and Figheldean 24949/32845
Amesbury East 23387/32845
Bellinger 22631/32845
Tidworth 22515/32845
Amesbury West 20325/32845
The Collingbournes and Netheravon 19925/32845
Andover Harroway 19416/32845
Ludgershall and Perham Down (Worst) 16973/32845

Average rent in Tidworth

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Tidworth

If you are thinking of moving to Tidworth, 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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