Is Filton, Gloucestershire a nice place to live?

Is Filton a nice place to live or is Filton rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Filton 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 Filton truly a nice place to live, or are Bristol, Bradley Stoke and Patchway a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Filton?

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 Filton. 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 AreaVoilent Crimes
Great Stoke162
Filton142
Southmead139
Little Stoke134
Brentry127
Cribbs Causeway97
Catbrain97
Patchway90
Stoke Gifford88
Harry Stoke51

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Filton. 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 Filton 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 Stoke Park & Cheswick ward.

WardAverage rank in England
Stoke Park & Cheswick (Best)26972/32845
Stoke Gifford24707/32845
Bradley Stoke South24329/32845
Winterbourne22491/32845
Filton10820/32845
Charlton & Cribbs8781/32845
Horfield6093/32845
Southmead5297/32845
Henbury and Brentry5115/32845
Lockleaze (Worst)4943/32845
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Is Filton a healthy place to live?

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

TownVery BadBad
Bristol, City of1.27%4.22%
South Gloucestershire (Filton)0.93%3.26%
Bath and North East Somerset0.91%3.31%
Cotswold0.8%3.01%

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

WardAverage rank in England
Stoke Park & Cheswick (Best)31091/32845
Winterbourne28527/32845
Bradley Stoke South28507/32845
Stoke Gifford26324/32845
Filton23640/32845
Charlton & Cribbs21006/32845
Horfield12984/32845
Henbury and Brentry9439/32845
Lockleaze8726/32845
Southmead (Worst)8384/32845
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Is Filton rough?

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 Filton. 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.

WardAverage rank in England
Bradley Stoke South (Best)28821/32845
Winterbourne26433/32845
Stoke Park & Cheswick26408/32845
Stoke Gifford26365/32845
Filton20816/32845
Horfield15064/32845
Charlton & Cribbs13322/32845
Southmead9659/32845
Henbury and Brentry9157/32845
Lockleaze (Worst)7578/32845

What is the average rent in Filton?

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Filton are dated September 2023. They are split into three figures, the lower quartile, mean and upper quartile. If you recieve housing benefit or the housing benefit element of Universal Credit, the lower 25% figure is near the top limit of what would be affordable. The mean is the average you would expect to pay for a rental property in Filton.

How much can I earn in Filton?

If you are thinking of moving to Filton, 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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