Moving to Woking, Surrey? What you need to know

So you are thinking of moving to Woking in Surrey? 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 Woking 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 Woking the land of milk and honey or are Beltchingley, Chertsey and Weybridge a lot better? Time to find out.

Crime in Woking

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 Woking. 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
Maybury	63
Horsell	40
Horsell Birch	34
Sheerwater	32
Cartbridge	21
St Johns	11
Hook Heath	11
Mayford	4
Stonehill	1
Mimbridge	0

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Canalside (Best)	12831/32845
Hoe Valley	14888/32845
Knaphill	18126/32845
Woodham & Rowtown	18395/32845
Mount Hermon	18487/32845
Horsell	20727/32845
Byfleet and West Byfleet	20958/32845
St John's	21983/32845
Pyrford	22554/32845
Goldsworth Park (Worst)	23686/32845

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Your Health in Woking

If you are thinking of moving to Woking, 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 Woking 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
Guildford	0.67%	2.48%	9.8%	33.13%	53.92%
Woking (Woking)	0.77%	2.62%	10.27%	34.57%	51.78%
Surrey Heath	0.74%	2.49%	10%	33.3%	53.47%
Runnymede	0.75%	2.94%	10.89%	34.1%	51.32%

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Goldsworth Park (Best)	21502/32845
Canalside	21601/32845
St John's	23720/32845
Hoe Valley	23916/32845
Knaphill	24973/32845
Byfleet and West Byfleet	25009/32845
Pyrford	26772/32845
Woodham & Rowtown	27102/32845
Horsell	27692/32845
Mount Hermon (Worst)	29110/32845

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Deprivation in Woking

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 Woking. 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
Canalside (Best)	18977/32845
Hoe Valley	21961/32845
Goldsworth Park	24174/32845
Woodham & Rowtown	25869/32845
St John's	25884/32845
Byfleet and West Byfleet	26378/32845
Knaphill	26405/32845
Mount Hermon	26662/32845
Pyrford	26775/32845
Horsell (Worst)	28530/32845

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