Moving to Wixams, Bedfordshire? What you need to know

So you are thinking of moving to Wixams in Bedfordshire? 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 Wixams 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 Wixams the land of milk and honey or are Bedford, Kempston and Sandy a lot better? Time to find out.

Crime in Wixams

Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of February 2021 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Wixams. 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
Castle	193
Bedford	167
South End	84
Kempston	72
Fenlake	70
Harrowden	37
Cardington	17
Shortstown	14
Herring’s Green	1
Littleworth	0

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Kingsbrook (Best)	11500/32845
Queens Park	12008/32845
Eastcotts	12836/32845
Kempston North	13568/32845
Kempston Central and East	15656/32845
Elstow and Stewartby	16802/32845
Kempston South	19346/32845
Wilshamstead	26001/32845
Castle	8840/32845
Cauldwell (Worst)	9934/32845

Reader Opinion:

Bedford, It’s never ending, It's hell

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Your Health in Wixams

If you are thinking of moving to Wixams, 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 Wixams 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
Luton	1.2%	3.73%	12.44%	36.07%	46.56%
Milton Keynes	0.94%	3.2%	10.82%	34.88%	50.17%
Bedford (Wixams)	0.98%	3.55%	12.58%	35.98%	46.9%
South Northamptonshire	0.77%	2.64%	11.01%	34.87%	50.72%

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Cauldwell (Best)	11231/32845
Kingsbrook	12427/32845
Queens Park	13132/32845
Kempston Central and East	13719/32845
Kempston North	14073/32845
Castle	14780/32845
Kempston South	18482/32845
Elstow and Stewartby	18501/32845
Eastcotts	20799/32845
Wilshamstead (Worst)	23877/32845

Reader Opinion:

Bedford and Kempston "Your Papers Please!!"

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Deprivation in Wixams

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 Wixams. 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
Kempston North (Best)	12967/32845
Kempston Central and East	13121/32845
Castle	13294/32845
Elstow and Stewartby	14492/32845
Eastcotts	15013/32845
Kempston South	17832/32845
Wilshamstead	27205/32845
Cauldwell	8462/32845
Queens Park	9106/32845
Kingsbrook (Worst)	9222/32845

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