Is Windsor, Berkshire a nice place to live?

Is Windsor a nice place to live or is Windsor rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Windsor 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 Windsor truly a nice place to live, or are Eton, Slough and Egham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Windsor?

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 Windsor. 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
Salt Hill 142
Chalvey 125
Eton 84
Cippenham 74
Eton Wick 30
Boveney 28
Spital 28
South Field 23
Thames 8

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Windsor. 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 Windsor 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 Clewer & Dedworth West ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Clewer & Dedworth West (Best) 22379/32845
Clewer East 20815/32845
Old Windsor 20544/32845
Clewer & Dedworth East 18386/32845
Cippenham Green 14950/32845
Cippenham Meadows 13348/32845
Eton & Castle 12798/32845
Upton 10167/32845
Chalvey 8450/32845
Central (Worst) 7286/32845
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Your Health in Windsor

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Slough 0.99% 3.5%
Wycombe 0.78% 2.71%
Windsor and Maidenhead (Windsor) 0.75% 2.68%
South Bucks 0.84% 2.93%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Old Windsor (Best) 29809/32845
Eton & Castle 28210/32845
Clewer & Dedworth West 26800/32845
Clewer & Dedworth East 22873/32845
Clewer East 22790/32845
Upton 19672/32845
Cippenham Green 16802/32845
Cippenham Meadows 15195/32845
Central 14470/32845
Chalvey (Worst) 10506/32845
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Deprivation in Windsor

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 Windsor. 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
Old Windsor (Best) 28033/32845
Clewer & Dedworth West 26493/32845
Clewer East 26018/32845
Eton & Castle 25934/32845
Clewer & Dedworth East 22701/32845
Cippenham Green 17192/32845
Upton 15711/32845
Cippenham Meadows 13746/32845
Central 11022/32845
Chalvey (Worst) 9268/32845

Average rent in Windsor

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Windsor

If you are thinking of moving to Windsor, 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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