So you are thinking of moving to Wareham in Dorset? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Wareham is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Wareham the land of milk and honey or are Poole, Swanage and Wimborne Minster a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Wareham
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of July 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Wareham. 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Northport | 15 |
| Ware | 15 |
| Sandford | 14 |
| Stoborough | 3 |
| Stoborough Green | 3 |
| Binnegar | 1 |
| Rushton | 1 |
| Post Green | 1 |
| Corfe | 0 |
| Cold Harbour | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Wareham. These statitics 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 collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Wareham. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Poole Town (Best) | 17056/32845 |
| Hamworthy | 19605/32845 |
| Lytchett Matravers & Upton | 22696/32845 |
| Stour & Allen Vale | 23779/32845 |
| South East Purbeck | 24603/32845 |
| Wareham | 24761/32845 |
| Creekmoor | 25928/32845 |
| Broadstone | 29818/32845 |
| Puddletown & Lower Winterborne | 30097/32845 |
| Corfe Mullen (Worst) | 30175/32845 |
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Your Health in Wareham
If you are thinking of moving to Wareham, 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 Wareham compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Forest | 1.08% | 3.81% | 14.09% | 35.87% | 45.15% |
| South Somerset | 1.03% | 3.79% | 13.82% | 35.91% | 45.45% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Wareham. 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 Wareham. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Hamworthy (Best) | 13435/32845 |
| Poole Town | 15706/32845 |
| Wareham | 18514/32845 |
| Creekmoor | 19021/32845 |
| Lytchett Matravers & Upton | 19491/32845 |
| South East Purbeck | 22376/32845 |
| Puddletown & Lower Winterborne | 24658/32845 |
| Broadstone | 27085/32845 |
| Corfe Mullen | 28209/32845 |
| Stour & Allen Vale (Worst) | 31219/32845 |
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Deprivation in Wareham
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 Wareham. 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 |
|---|---|
| Hamworthy (Best) | 13690/32845 |
| South East Purbeck | 17181/32845 |
| Poole Town | 18082/32845 |
| Wareham | 18130/32845 |
| Puddletown & Lower Winterborne | 18852/32845 |
| Creekmoor | 19151/32845 |
| Lytchett Matravers & Upton | 20235/32845 |
| Stour & Allen Vale | 23460/32845 |
| Corfe Mullen | 29775/32845 |
| Broadstone (Worst) | 30867/32845 |
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