Is Wymondham, Norfolk a nice place to live?

Is Wymondham a nice place to live or is Wymondham rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Wymondham 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 Wymondham truly a nice place to live, or are Attleborough, Hingham and Norwich a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Wymondham?

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 Wymondham. 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
Kidd’s Moor 19
Hethersett 6
Silfield 4
Penny’s Green 4
High Green 2
Ashwellthorpe 1
Crownthorpe 0
Barford 0
Highoak 0
Morley St Botolph 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Wymondham. 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 Wymondham 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 Wicklewood ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Wicklewood (Best) 30840/32845
Hingham & Deopham 29816/32845
North Wymondham 29487/32845
Mulbarton & Stoke Holy Cross 28580/32845
Easton 28495/32845
Attleborough Queens & Besthorpe 27942/32845
Hethersett 27458/32845
Forncett 27177/32845
Central Wymondham 26885/32845
South Wymondham (Worst) 26208/32845
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Your Health in Wymondham

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Norwich 1.24% 4.42%
Breckland 1.18% 4.31%
Broadland 1.08% 3.61%
South Norfolk (Wymondham) 1.02% 3.46%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Forncett (Best) 27998/32845
Mulbarton & Stoke Holy Cross 27276/32845
Wicklewood 24881/32845
Hethersett 24421/32845
Easton 23947/32845
North Wymondham 23771/32845
Central Wymondham 23147/32845
South Wymondham 22037/32845
Hingham & Deopham 19560/32845
Attleborough Queens & Besthorpe (Worst) 18179/32845
Reader Opinion:

Hunstanton - don't waste your time

Deprivation in Wymondham

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 Wymondham. 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
Hethersett (Best) 24702/32845
Central Wymondham 24388/32845
Mulbarton & Stoke Holy Cross 24171/32845
North Wymondham 23137/32845
Attleborough Queens & Besthorpe 21845/32845
Easton 20753/32845
South Wymondham 20589/32845
Wicklewood 19350/32845
Forncett 19188/32845
Hingham & Deopham (Worst) 17550/32845

Average rent in Wymondham

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Wymondham

If you are thinking of moving to Wymondham, 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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