So you are thinking of moving to Wembley in London? 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 Wembley 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 Wembley the land of milk and honey or are Acton, Ealing and Willesden a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Wembley
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Wembley. 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 |
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Neasden | 230 |
Lower Place | 160 |
Stonebridge | 160 |
Tokyngton | 155 |
North Wembley | 113 |
Alperton | 89 |
Brent | 89 |
Grand Union Canal | 85 |
Harrow on the Hill | 81 |
Kenton | 70 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Wembley. 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 Wembley. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Tokyngton (Best) | 11414/32845 |
Wembley Central | 11835/32845 |
Sudbury | 13272/32845 |
Barnhill | 13499/32845 |
Preston | 14468/32845 |
Alperton | 17065/32845 |
North Greenford | 17238/32845 |
Northwick Park | 17743/32845 |
Hanger Hill | 18283/32845 |
Perivale (Worst) | 19180/32845 |
Neasden - Where the grass isn't greener because there is no grass
Your Health in Wembley
If you are thinking of moving to Wembley, 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 Wembley 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 |
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Brent (Wembley) | 1.38% | 3.96% | 11.8% | 34.76% | 48.1% |
Ealing | 1.22% | 3.79% | 11.35% | 34.48% | 49.16% |
Harrow | 1.1% | 3.47% | 11.85% | 36% | 47.58% |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 1.3% | 3.58% | 9.42% | 29.25% | 56.46% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Wembley. 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 Wembley. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Barnhill (Best) | 21514/32845 |
Sudbury | 23544/32845 |
Tokyngton | 24053/32845 |
Perivale | 25356/32845 |
Northwick Park | 26280/32845 |
Preston | 26422/32845 |
North Greenford | 26893/32845 |
Alperton | 27298/32845 |
Wembley Central | 27436/32845 |
Hanger Hill (Worst) | 27444/32845 |
Northolt: The place that decency and cleanliness forgot
Deprivation in Wembley
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 Wembley. 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 |
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Barnhill (Best) | 12269/32845 |
Alperton | 12529/32845 |
Sudbury | 12637/32845 |
Wembley Central | 12778/32845 |
Tokyngton | 13019/32845 |
Preston | 15501/32845 |
Perivale | 16689/32845 |
North Greenford | 18751/32845 |
Northwick Park | 19581/32845 |
Hanger Hill (Worst) | 20544/32845 |
Northolt: The place that decency and cleanliness forgot
Neasden – Where the grass isn’t greener because there is no grass
Hounslow is looking pretty rough these days
Hammersmith and Fulham one big awful hole
Karens tour of North Devon
Elephant and Castle – Yep, you’ve got off at the wrong stop.
West Hendon – A greyer shade of grey
Dartford: once a thriving market town, now in decline
The London Borough of Hackney – the ******** of London