Better Or Worse Than Average?

An article appeared on the Wimbledon Guardian website the other day saying that the number of deaths and serious injuries on Merton's roads is down - read the article here. It's always nice to read about those sorts of trends - even though you could say that even one accident is too many - and it made we wonder how Morden compares with the rest of the country?

So I went to the Up My Street website to have a quick look. Rather than searching for a specific post code I simply searched for "Morden", and the general findings are that Morden is performing slightly worse than the national average on many of the measures - but not alarmingly so, especially when you consider that Morden is an urban area, and the national averages of course includes all rural areas where statistics like crime levels are generally lower.

Of course there are also areas where Morden is performing better than the national average, e.g. theft from vehicles and council tax.

The full results can be found here. Don't forget to have a look at all the headings and measures. Alternatively you can enter your own post code for slightly more specific results.