Is Yeovil, Somerset a nice place to live?

Is Yeovil a nice place to live or is Yeovil rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Yeovil 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 Yeovil truly a nice place to live, or are Sherborne, Crewkerne and South Petherton a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Yeovil?

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 Yeovil. 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
Hollands 165
Pen Mill 142
Up Mudford 58
Alvington 15
Holywell 5
Brympton D’Evercy 4
Lower Odcombe 4
Barwick 2
Stoford 2
Chilthorne Domer 2

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Yeovil. 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 Yeovil 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 Sherborne Rural ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Sherborne Rural (Best) 30528/32845
Parrett 27390/32845
Northstone, Ivelchester & St Michael's 24975/32845
Brympton 21519/32845
Yeovil Without 19344/32845
Yeovil Westland 17696/32845
Yeovil Summerlands 15600/32845
Coker 15348/32845
Yeovil College 9268/32845
Yeovil Lyde (Worst) 6704/32845
Reader Opinion:

Sherborne, a hideously deranged town that looks great from afar

Your Health in Yeovil

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

Town Very Bad Bad
South Somerset (Yeovil) 1.03% 3.79%
Sedgemoor 1.16% 4.36%
Mendip 1.01% 3.79%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Sherborne Rural (Best) 27627/32845
Parrett 23817/32845
Yeovil Without 23413/32845
Northstone, Ivelchester & St Michael's 22431/32845
Coker 18806/32845
Brympton 18229/32845
Yeovil Westland 14907/32845
Yeovil Summerlands 13081/32845
Yeovil College 10863/32845
Yeovil Lyde (Worst) 10545/32845
Reader Opinion:

Yeovil, neatly situated in the arse end of nowhere

Deprivation in Yeovil

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 Yeovil. 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
Yeovil Without (Best) 23806/32845
Brympton 21843/32845
Northstone, Ivelchester & St Michael's 20513/32845
Sherborne Rural 19114/32845
Parrett 18631/32845
Yeovil Westland 18557/32845
Yeovil Summerlands 15765/32845
Coker 15663/32845
Yeovil College 12406/32845
Yeovil Lyde (Worst) 8630/32845

Average rent in Yeovil

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Yeovil

If you are thinking of moving to Yeovil, 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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