Is Walton on Thames, Surrey a nice place to live?

Is Walton on Thames a nice place to live or is Walton on Thames rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Walton on Thames 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 Walton on Thames truly a nice place to live, or are Esher, Kingston upon Thames and Weybridge a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Walton on Thames?

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 Walton on Thames. 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-on-Thames 49
Upper Halliford 41
Ashley Park 37
Rydens 33
Field Common 32
Hersham 25
Lower Halliford 21
Oatlands Park 17
Shepperton 15
Shepperton Green 15

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Walton on Thames. 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 Walton on Thames 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 Oatlands and Burwood Park ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Oatlands and Burwood Park (Best) 25584/32845
Sunbury East 20007/32845
Hersham Village 19014/32845
Shepperton Town 18881/32845
Weybridge Riverside 17119/32845
Walton South 16858/32845
Walton Central 14679/32845
Addlestone South 14281/32845
Walton North 12913/32845
Halliford and Sunbury West (Worst) 12667/32845
Reader Opinion:

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Your Health in Walton on Thames

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Richmond upon Thames 0.75% 2.47%
Kingston upon Thames 0.79% 2.77%
Elmbridge (Walton on Thames) 0.66% 2.46%
Spelthorne 0.87% 3.23%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Walton Central (Best) 31644/32845
Oatlands and Burwood Park 30707/32845
Weybridge Riverside 29964/32845
Walton South 29620/32845
Hersham Village 28457/32845
Sunbury East 28123/32845
Shepperton Town 26182/32845
Walton North 25227/32845
Halliford and Sunbury West 25068/32845
Addlestone South (Worst) 23678/32845
Reader Opinion:

Weybridge: a quaint commuter belt town, ruined!

Deprivation in Walton on Thames

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 Walton on Thames. 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
Walton Central (Best) 28998/32845
Weybridge Riverside 28629/32845
Oatlands and Burwood Park 28608/32845
Sunbury East 28124/32845
Walton South 27816/32845
Shepperton Town 25709/32845
Hersham Village 24555/32845
Halliford and Sunbury West 20610/32845
Addlestone South 20201/32845
Walton North (Worst) 19920/32845

Average rent in Walton on Thames

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Walton on Thames

If you are thinking of moving to Walton on Thames, 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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