Is Wimbledon, London a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Wimbledon?

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 Wimbledon. 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
Tooting Graveney 242
Collier’s Wood 232
South Wimbledon 139
Earlsfield 137
Southfields 101
Morden 99
Bushey Mead 50
Raynes Park 50
Crooked Billet 40
Copse Hill 18

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Wimbledon. 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 Wimbledon 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 Hillside ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Hillside (Best) 25706/32845
Dundonald 22551/32845
Village 22161/32845
Merton Park 21744/32845
Trinity 20948/32845
Wimbledon Park 20389/32845
Abbey 19970/32845
Earlsfield 18888/32845
Lavender Fields 15986/32845
Tooting (Worst) 9362/32845
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Your Health in Wimbledon

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Lambeth 1.17% 3.54%
Wandsworth 0.92% 2.85%
Merton (Wimbledon) 0.88% 2.97%
Sutton 0.9% 3.19%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Village (Best) 31092/32845
Merton Park 29818/32845
Hillside 28459/32845
Dundonald 28311/32845
Wimbledon Park 28027/32845
Trinity 24449/32845
Abbey 23478/32845
Earlsfield 20027/32845
Lavender Fields 19820/32845
Tooting (Worst) 18308/32845
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Deprivation in Wimbledon

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 Wimbledon. 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
Village (Best) 29561/32845
Hillside 28711/32845
Dundonald 28647/32845
Merton Park 27030/32845
Wimbledon Park 26750/32845
Trinity 25316/32845
Abbey 23493/32845
Earlsfield 19916/32845
Lavender Fields 15220/32845
Tooting (Worst) 13928/32845

Average rent in Wimbledon

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Wimbledon

If you are thinking of moving to Wimbledon, 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.

How grim is your Postcode?