Is Tisbury, Wiltshire a nice place to live?

Is Tisbury a nice place to live or is Tisbury rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Tisbury 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 Tisbury truly a nice place to live, or are Shaftesbury, Mere and Wilton a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Tisbury?

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 Tisbury. 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
Tisbury 3
Tuckingmill 2
Fovant 1
Chilmark 0
Mooray 0
Teffont Evias 0
Teffont Magna 0
Greenwich 0
Berwick St Leonard 0
Upper Chicksgrove 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Tisbury. 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 Tisbury 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 Till and Wylye Valley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Till and Wylye Valley (Best) 24957/32845
Bourne and Woodford Valley 24775/32845
Tisbury 23729/32845
Mere 23524/32845
Shaftesbury Town 23489/32845
Nadder and East Knoyle 21687/32845
Salisbury Fisherton and Bemerton Village 19743/32845
Warminster Broadway 18302/32845
Wilton and Lower Wylye Valley 18153/32845
Salisbury Bemerton (Worst) 10598/32845
Reader Opinion:

Salisbury - well there's two types of people

Your Health in Tisbury

If you are thinking of moving to Tisbury, 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 Tisbury 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 (Tisbury) 0.87% 3.18%
New Forest 1.08% 3.81%
South Somerset 1.03% 3.79%
Mendip 1.01% 3.79%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Tisbury (Best) 29054/32845
Mere 25135/32845
Nadder and East Knoyle 24078/32845
Bourne and Woodford Valley 23506/32845
Till and Wylye Valley 23393/32845
Shaftesbury Town 22852/32845
Salisbury Fisherton and Bemerton Village 22197/32845
Warminster Broadway 20694/32845
Wilton and Lower Wylye Valley 17940/32845
Salisbury Bemerton (Worst) 13420/32845
Reader Opinion:

Shaftesbury - it's great if you're old and rich

Deprivation in Tisbury

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 Tisbury. 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
Bourne and Woodford Valley (Best) 24420/32845
Salisbury Fisherton and Bemerton Village 21812/32845
Till and Wylye Valley 19776/32845
Warminster Broadway 19353/32845
Shaftesbury Town 18930/32845
Mere 18355/32845
Wilton and Lower Wylye Valley 17526/32845
Tisbury 17509/32845
Nadder and East Knoyle 14022/32845
Salisbury Bemerton (Worst) 9769/32845

Average rent in Tisbury

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Tisbury

If you are thinking of moving to Tisbury, 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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