Is Tring, Hertfordshire a nice place to live?

Is Tring a nice place to live or is Tring rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Tring 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 Tring truly a nice place to live, or are Chesham, Wendover and Berkhamsted a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Tring?

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 Tring. 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
Bucklandwharf 10
New Mill 8
Little Tring 8
Bulbourne 8
Upper Dunsley 8
Drayton Beauchamp 7
Marsworth 2
Grand Union Canal 2
Pitstone 1
Pitstone Hill 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Tring. 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 Tring 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 Pitstone & Cheddington ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Pitstone & Cheddington (Best) 28665/32845
Cholesbury, The Lee and Bellingdon 26615/32845
Berkhamsted Castle 25950/32845
Tring West and Rural 25435/32845
Aston Clinton & Stoke Mandeville 24677/32845
Berkhamsted West 24154/32845
Aldbury and Wigginton 22816/32845
Tring East 21583/32845
Tring Central 20115/32845
Northchurch (Worst) 20013/32845
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Your Health in Tring

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Central Bedfordshire 0.84% 3.02%
Aylesbury Vale 0.78% 2.68%
Dacorum (Tring) 0.87% 3.16%
Chiltern 0.7% 2.52%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Cholesbury, The Lee and Bellingdon (Best) 32767/32845
Aldbury and Wigginton 32304/32845
Berkhamsted Castle 31866/32845
Tring East 31749/32845
Pitstone & Cheddington 29944/32845
Tring West and Rural 29773/32845
Aston Clinton & Stoke Mandeville 28652/32845
Tring Central 28326/32845
Northchurch 28068/32845
Berkhamsted West (Worst) 27996/32845
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Deprivation in Tring

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 Tring. 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
Berkhamsted Castle (Best) 32204/32845
Tring East 30008/32845
Northchurch 29951/32845
Aldbury and Wigginton 29610/32845
Aston Clinton & Stoke Mandeville 29093/32845
Tring West and Rural 27660/32845
Berkhamsted West 27430/32845
Pitstone & Cheddington 27172/32845
Tring Central 26346/32845
Cholesbury, The Lee and Bellingdon (Worst) 25182/32845

Average rent in Tring

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Tring

If you are thinking of moving to Tring, 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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