Is Wood Green, London a nice place to live?

Is Wood Green a nice place to live or is Wood Green rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Wood Green 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 Wood Green truly a nice place to live, or are Hornsey, Southgate and Tottenham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Wood Green?

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 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.
Policing Area Voilent Crimes
Tottenham 348
Harringay 263
New River 257
Edmonton 255
Hornsey Vale 202
Crouch End 163
Bowes Park 155
Hornsey 127
Palmers Green 103
New Southgate 80

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Wood Green. 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 Wood Green 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 Bowes ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Bowes (Best) 12877/32845
Hornsey 11002/32845
Harringay 7750/32845
Woodside 6602/32845
West Green 5685/32845
St Ann's 5181/32845
Bruce Grove 4178/32845
White Hart Lane 3646/32845
Noel Park 3430/32845
Tottenham Green (Worst) 1771/32845
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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;

Town Very Bad Bad
Barnet 1.14% 3.42%
Haringey (Wood Green) 1.48% 4.18%
Islington 1.68% 4.74%
Waltham Forest 1.34% 3.89%

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
Bowes (Best) 25352/32845
St Ann's 18226/32845
Harringay 17280/32845
Woodside 16202/32845
West Green 15773/32845
Bruce Grove 15598/32845
Noel Park 15103/32845
Hornsey 14736/32845
Tottenham Green 13586/32845
White Hart Lane (Worst) 13042/32845

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
Bowes (Best) 14330/32845
Harringay 11617/32845
Hornsey 11534/32845
St Ann's 10281/32845
Woodside 9413/32845
West Green 7711/32845
Noel Park 6894/32845
Bruce Grove 6267/32845
Tottenham Green 4999/32845
White Hart Lane (Worst) 3777/32845

Average rent in Wood Green

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Wood Green

If you are thinking of moving to Wood Green, 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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