Official statistics · 15 of 16 measures compare directly
Test Valley and Tewkesbury compared
Every measure Civometry publishes for both areas, side by side. Each figure is its publisher’s own for the period named beside it, and the difference between the two is stated in the middle. Neither area is called better: which direction counts as better depends on what you are asking, and the page does not decide that for you. Where the two figures are not comparable — a different period, or nothing published for one side — the row says so instead of showing a difference.
Test Valley
E07000093 · Hampshire Constabulary
Tewkesbury
E07000083 · Gloucestershire Constabulary
Getting better or worse
+1
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
3 more in Test Valley
−2
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
Population
135,698
ONS: Population estimates for the UK and constituent countries: historical time series
31,945 more in Test Valley
103,753
ONS: Population estimates for the UK and constituent countries: historical time series
Median annual pay, full-time employees
£40,576
ONS: ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence
£1,340 more in Test Valley
£39,236
ONS: ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence
Average house price
£372,348
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
£42,465 more in Test Valley
£329,883
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
All private rents
£1,234
ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics
£148 more in Test Valley
£1,086
ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics
All claimants
2.0%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
0.4 percentage points higher in Tewkesbury
2.4%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
Net international migration
+45
ONS: Components of population change by local authority (ONS mid-year estimates, sheet MYE3)
83 more in Test Valley
−38
ONS: Components of population change by local authority (ONS mid-year estimates, sheet MYE3)
Band D council tax
£2,306
MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
£35 more in Tewkesbury
£2,341
MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
IMD average score
12.2
MHCLG: English Indices of Deprivation: local authority district summaries
0.6 more in Test Valley
11.5
MHCLG: English Indices of Deprivation: local authority district summaries
Income-deprived residents
13.4%
MHCLG: English Indices of Deprivation: local authority district summaries
2.2 percentage points higher in Tewkesbury
15.6%
MHCLG: English Indices of Deprivation: local authority district summaries
Recorded crime
60.1
Home Office: data.police.uk street-level crime, cumulative monthly archive
No published figure for Tewkesbury.
No published figure
Home Office: data.police.uk street-level crime, cumulative monthly archive
House price to pay ratio
9.2 years
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
0.8 years more in Test Valley
8.4 years
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
Annual rent as a share of pay
36.5%
ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics
3.3 percentage points higher in Test Valley
33.2%
ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics
Band D council tax as a share of pay
5.68%
MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
0.29 percentage points higher in Tewkesbury
5.97%
MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
Mean domestic gas use per meter
10,359
DESNZ: Regional and local authority gas consumption statistics
287 more in Test Valley
10,072
DESNZ: Regional and local authority gas consumption statistics
Mean domestic electricity use per meter
3,887
DESNZ: Regional and local authority electricity consumption statistics
456 more in Test Valley
3,431
DESNZ: Regional and local authority electricity consumption statistics
In one sentence
In the latest published figures, population was 135,698 in Test Valley and 103,753 in Tewkesbury (mid-2025); median annual pay, full-time employees was £40,576 in Test Valley and £39,236 in Tewkesbury (2025); and average house price was £372,348 in Test Valley and £329,883 in Tewkesbury (June 2026). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
In the latest published figures, population was 135,698 in Test Valley and 103,753 in Tewkesbury (mid-2025); median annual pay, full-time employees was £40,576 in Test Valley and £39,236 in Tewkesbury (2025); and average house price was £372,348 in Test Valley and £329,883 in Tewkesbury (June 2026). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
Recorded crime by category
A category-by-category crime comparison needs both areas to have a full, current twelve months in the data.police.uk archive. One of them does not, so it is not shown; the crime rate above, where published, still comes from that archive.
What this comparison rests on
Two figures are only subtracted when they are the same measure over the same period. Populations differ (135,698 and 103,753 residents on the latest estimates used here), so counts are shown alongside rates rather than instead of them. Nothing on this page is weighted, indexed or scored: every difference is one published number minus another, and the rows that cannot be compared say why.