So you are thinking of moving to Wood Green in London? 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 Wood Green 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 Wood Green the land of milk and honey or are Hornsey, Southgate and Tottenham a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Wood Green
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of August 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Wood Green. 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 |
|---|---|
| Tottenham | 326 |
| New River | 288 |
| Harringay | 275 |
| Edmonton | 252 |
| Hornsey Vale | 202 |
| Hornsey | 151 |
| Crouch End | 148 |
| Bowes Park | 146 |
| New Southgate | 93 |
| Palmers Green | 84 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Wood Green. 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 Wood Green. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Hornsey (Best) | 11002/32845 |
| Bowes | 12877/32845 |
| Tottenham Green | 1771/32845 |
| Noel Park | 3430/32845 |
| White Hart Lane | 3646/32845 |
| Bruce Grove | 4178/32845 |
| St Ann's | 5181/32845 |
| West Green | 5685/32845 |
| Woodside | 6602/32845 |
| Harringay (Worst) | 7750/32845 |
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Your Health in Wood Green
If you are thinking of moving to Wood Green, 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 Wood Green 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnet | 1.14% | 3.42% | 10.99% | 32.97% | 51.48% |
| Haringey (Wood Green) | 1.48% | 4.18% | 11.16% | 33.57% | 49.62% |
| Islington | 1.68% | 4.74% | 11.21% | 30.75% | 51.61% |
| Waltham Forest | 1.34% | 3.89% | 12.06% | 35.61% | 47.11% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Wood Green. 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 Wood Green. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| White Hart Lane (Best) | 13042/32845 |
| Tottenham Green | 13586/32845 |
| Hornsey | 14736/32845 |
| Noel Park | 15103/32845 |
| Bruce Grove | 15598/32845 |
| West Green | 15773/32845 |
| Woodside | 16202/32845 |
| Harringay | 17280/32845 |
| St Ann's | 18226/32845 |
| Bowes (Worst) | 25352/32845 |
Deprivation in Wood Green
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 Wood Green. 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 |
|---|---|
| St Ann's (Best) | 10281/32845 |
| Hornsey | 11534/32845 |
| Harringay | 11617/32845 |
| Bowes | 14330/32845 |
| White Hart Lane | 3777/32845 |
| Tottenham Green | 4999/32845 |
| Bruce Grove | 6267/32845 |
| Noel Park | 6894/32845 |
| West Green | 7711/32845 |
| Woodside (Worst) | 9413/32845 |
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