Is Earley, Berkshire a nice place to live?

Is Earley a nice place to live or is Earley rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Earley 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 Earley truly a nice place to live, or are Reading, Wokingham and Woodley a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Earley?

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 Earley. 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
Reading250
Lower Caversham213
Coley189
Foudry Brook116
Earley58
Lower Earley41
Littlestead Green21
Charvil10
Play Hatch7
Carter’s Hill3

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Earley. 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 Earley 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 Hawkedon ward.

WardAverage rank in England
Hawkedon (Best)30250/32845
Maiden Erlegh30142/32845
Sonning29151/32845
Coronation28984/32845
Hillside28460/32845
Loddon26652/32845
Bulmershe and Whitegates25954/32845
South Lake25699/32845
Park17723/32845
Church (Worst)12720/32845
Reader Opinion:

Reading - what was a fairly nice university town is now a hell hole

Your Health in Earley

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

TownVery BadBad
Reading0.81%2.95%
Windsor and Maidenhead0.75%2.68%
Wokingham (Earley)0.61%2.14%
Bracknell Forest0.72%2.53%

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

WardAverage rank in England
Maiden Erlegh (Best)31981/32845
Hillside31900/32845
Sonning31782/32845
Coronation31685/32845
Hawkedon31627/32845
South Lake30273/32845
Bulmershe and Whitegates29862/32845
Loddon27893/32845
Park19875/32845
Church (Worst)12899/32845
Reader Opinion:

Owlsmoor, Sandhurst: enter at your peril!

Deprivation in Earley

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 Earley. 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
Maiden Erlegh (Best)32031/32845
Hillside31842/32845
Coronation31736/32845
Sonning31205/32845
Hawkedon30116/32845
South Lake28426/32845
Loddon28329/32845
Bulmershe and Whitegates24874/32845
Park19752/32845
Church (Worst)10924/32845

Average rent in Earley

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Earley

If you are thinking of moving to Earley, 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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