Is Wigston Magna a nice place to live or is Wigston Magna rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Wigston Magna 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 Wigston Magna truly a nice place to live, or are Braunstone Town, Leicester and Oadby a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Wigston Magna?
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 Wigston Magna. 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 |
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Aylestone Park | 162 |
Knighton Fields | 153 |
Knighton | 153 |
Clarendon Park | 130 |
South Knighton | 93 |
Stoneygate | 91 |
Eyres Monsell | 86 |
South Wigston | 51 |
Oadby | 43 |
Kilby Bridge | 10 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Wigston Magna. 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 Wigston Magna and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Oadby Brocks Hill (Best) | 25887/32845 |
Wigston Meadowcourt | 25248/32845 |
Wigston St Wolstan's | 22392/32845 |
Wigston All Saints | 18007/32845 |
Wigston Fields | 17685/32845 |
South Wigston | 17148/32845 |
Oadby St Peter's | 17024/32845 |
Saxondale | 11500/32845 |
Saffron | 6405/32845 |
Eyres Monsell (Worst) | 3608/32845 |
Leicester: not recommended as a holiday destination, I lived here
Your Health in Wigston Magna
If you are thinking of moving to Wigston Magna, 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 Wigston Magna compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
Town | Very Bad | Bad |
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Leicester | 1.49% | 4.54% |
Blaby | 0.88% | 3.28% |
Harborough | 0.76% | 2.75% |
Oadby and Wigston (Wigston Magna) | 1.09% | 3.71% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Wigston Magna. 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 Wigston Magna. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Oadby Brocks Hill (Best) | 23317/32845 |
Wigston Meadowcourt | 21319/32845 |
Wigston St Wolstan's | 20209/32845 |
Saxondale | 20003/32845 |
Wigston All Saints | 15017/32845 |
Oadby St Peter's | 13630/32845 |
Wigston Fields | 11884/32845 |
South Wigston | 9580/32845 |
Saffron | 3901/32845 |
Eyres Monsell (Worst) | 1898/32845 |
At Leicester's Clock Tower, smell the stench of BO & cheap perfume
Deprivation in Wigston Magna
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 Wigston Magna. 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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Oadby Brocks Hill (Best) | 28629/32845 |
Wigston Meadowcourt | 25084/32845 |
Wigston St Wolstan's | 23234/32845 |
Saxondale | 21793/32845 |
Wigston All Saints | 20953/32845 |
Oadby St Peter's | 17531/32845 |
Wigston Fields | 14376/32845 |
South Wigston | 13870/32845 |
Saffron | 7783/32845 |
Eyres Monsell (Worst) | 2526/32845 |
Average rent in Wigston Magna
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Wigston Magna 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 Wigston Magna.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Wigston Magna
If you are thinking of moving to Wigston Magna, 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.