Best and worst connected areas in the borough
Some of the villages are the most isolated in our borough
EAST Hinckley is the best connected place in Hinckley and Bosworth.
That’s because it has schools and doctors’ surgeries – plus food shops and transport links – within an easy reach.
People living in the neighbourhood around Hollier’s Walk are just minutes from schools - on average five minutes to a primary and 15 minutes to a secondary on foot or by public transport, and seven and 10 minutes respectively by car.
Getting to their GP will take 10 minutes on average by walking or public transport or eight minutes by car and bike, while it’s 47 minutes to hospital by foot or public transport or 26 minutes in a car.
For those planning to head further afield, Birmingham airport is 76 minutes away by public transport or East Midlands airport at 43 minutes in the car, while the nearest hub station Birmingham New Street is 62 minutes by public transport, while Coventry station is 36 minutes travel by car.
Meanwhile, the villages of Norton JuxtaTwycross, Orton-on-the-Hill, and Sheepy Magna are the most isolated places in Hinckley and Bosworth.
By foot or public transport, it’s an average 19 minute journey to a primary school and 53 minutes to a secondary school. By car, that’s cut to eight minutes and 15 minutes respectively.
A GP is 44 minutes away by walking or public transport, 28 minutes on a bike or 13 minutes in a car, while it takes an hour and a half to get to hospital on public transport.
It is likely to take 123 minutes to get to Birmingham airport and 102 minutes on public transport to Coventry station, although in the car you could be at East Midlands airport in 40 minutes and Birmingham International station in 41 minutes.
These analyses are gleaned from a study based on official figures, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The study ranks every one of 32,844 neighbourhoods in England based on how long the ONS says it takes an average person to reach primary and secondary schools, GP surgeries and food shops, plus major railway stations and major airports.
Shadwell, in London, is the best connected neighbourhood in England.
The area – bounded by Watney Market to the west and St Marys Cable Street to the East – benefits from three schools, a wide variety of food shops, a connecting rail station, and a doctors surgery within just a few streets.
Its proximity to London City Airport means the average person living there is only 21 minutes away by car, or 35 minutes by public transport.
At the other end of the ‘connectedness’ scale is a sparsely-populated neighbourhood in Teignbridge, Devon – running from the villages of Poundsgate in the south to Moretonhampstead in the north.
According to the ONS data, the average resident of that area is 51 minutes away (on foot or on public transport) from the nearest primary school and nearly two hours from the nearest secondary school.
The nearest hospital takes at least two hours by public transport, and the nearest major airport or rail station (Bristol and Bristol Parkway respectively) are more than two hours away. By car you’re looking at over two hours to the airport, or 145 minutes to the station. How does it work?
The ONS data breaks down England into neighbourhoods, or ‘lower super output areas,’ which contain roughly the same number of people (around 1,500 in all).
That means neighbourhoods in densely-populated cities and towns tend to be much smaller, and average travel times to key services tend to be shorter.
Lightly-populated neighbourhoods are bigger and tend to fare much worse in the rankings.
The travel times show the average time it takes to get to key services for all people living in a particular neighbourhood.
‘Major’ airports are those with at least one per cent of UK air traffic, while ‘major’ rail stations are those which are considered, for official purposes, to be national or regional hubs.
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