Is Whitnash, Warwickshire a nice place to live?

Is Whitnash a nice place to live or is Whitnash rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Whitnash 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 Whitnash truly a nice place to live, or are Royal Leamington Spa, Southam and Warwick a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Whitnash?

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 Whitnash. 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
Royal Leamington Spa 137
Campion Hills 111
Milverton 81
Emscote 69
Tachbrook Mallory 25
Bridge End 23
Heathcote 23
Radford Semele 23
Bishop’s Tachbrook 5
Offchurch 5

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Whitnash. 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 Whitnash 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 Harbury ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Harbury (Best) 25447/32845
Whitnash 20168/32845
Leamington Milverton 19515/32845
Warwick Myton & Heathcote 18720/32845
Warwick Saltisford 18613/32845
Leamington Lillington 18390/32845
Leamington Willes 12987/32845
Leamington Clarendon 11787/32845
Leamington Brunswick 7728/32845
Reader Opinion:

Leamington Spa: Stale magnolia casting its vanilla doom all over the town

Your Health in Whitnash

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Coventry 1.4% 4.66%
Warwick (Whitnash) 0.93% 3.11%
Redditch 1.23% 4.18%
Daventry 0.91% 3.31%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Harbury (Best) 25445/32845
Warwick Myton & Heathcote 23796/32845
Whitnash 22516/32845
Leamington Milverton 22400/32845
Leamington Clarendon 20389/32845
Leamington Lillington 18202/32845
Warwick Saltisford 18010/32845
Leamington Willes 14458/32845
Leamington Brunswick 8712/32845
Reader Opinion:

Southam... probably one of the dullest towns around

Deprivation in Whitnash

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 Whitnash. 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
Whitnash (Best) 26583/32845
Leamington Milverton 25931/32845
Warwick Myton & Heathcote 25236/32845
Harbury 22553/32845
Leamington Lillington 22121/32845
Leamington Clarendon 21377/32845
Warwick Saltisford 21259/32845
Leamington Willes 19622/32845
Leamington Brunswick 11709/32845

Average rent in Whitnash

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Whitnash

If you are thinking of moving to Whitnash, 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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