So you are thinking of moving to Yate in Gloucestershire? 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 Yate 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 Yate the land of milk and honey or are Bradley Stoke, Chipping Sodbury and Wickwar a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Yate
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 Yate. 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 |
|---|---|
| Chipping Sodbury | 30 |
| Goose Green | 29 |
| Mayshill | 7 |
| Little Sodbury End | 5 |
| Engine Common | 4 |
| Colt’s Green | 3 |
| Wapley | 0 |
| Little Sodbury | 0 |
| Totteroak | 0 |
| Horwood Riding | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Yate. 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 Yate. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Yate Central (Best) | 18270/32845 |
| Emersons Green | 19543/32845 |
| Frenchay & Downend | 19914/32845 |
| Dodington | 21404/32845 |
| Charfield | 21425/32845 |
| Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge | 22831/32845 |
| Frampton Cotterell | 22904/32845 |
| Yate North | 23528/32845 |
| Bradley Stoke South | 24329/32845 |
| Bradley Stoke North (Worst) | 25576/32845 |
Huddersfield, not such a 'brilliant' place to live!
Your Health in Yate
If you are thinking of moving to Yate, 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 Yate 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol, City of | 1.27% | 4.22% | 12.25% | 33.46% | 48.81% |
| South Gloucestershire (Yate) | 0.93% | 3.26% | 11.77% | 34.89% | 49.15% |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 0.91% | 3.31% | 11.85% | 33.43% | 50.5% |
| Cotswold | 0.8% | 3.01% | 12.33% | 35.07% | 48.78% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Yate. 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 Yate. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Yate Central (Best) | 23010/32845 |
| Dodington | 25048/32845 |
| Bradley Stoke North | 25483/32845 |
| Charfield | 25544/32845 |
| Yate North | 25796/32845 |
| Bradley Stoke South | 28507/32845 |
| Emersons Green | 28606/32845 |
| Frampton Cotterell | 28746/32845 |
| Frenchay & Downend | 29479/32845 |
| Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge (Worst) | 29694/32845 |
Yeovil, neatly situated in the arse end of nowhere
Deprivation in Yate
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 Yate. 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 |
|---|---|
| Yate Central (Best) | 19736/32845 |
| Dodington | 22952/32845 |
| Charfield | 22968/32845 |
| Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge | 23942/32845 |
| Yate North | 24369/32845 |
| Bradley Stoke North | 25482/32845 |
| Emersons Green | 26216/32845 |
| Frampton Cotterell | 26522/32845 |
| Frenchay & Downend | 28414/32845 |
| Bradley Stoke South (Worst) | 28821/32845 |
