Is Fleetwood, Lancashire a nice place to live?

Is Fleetwood a nice place to live or is Fleetwood rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Fleetwood 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 Fleetwood truly a nice place to live, or are Preesall, Thornton and Thornton Cleveleys a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Fleetwood?

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 Fleetwood. 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 Area Voilent Crimes
Burn Naze 67
Trunnah 67
Anchorsholme 64
Knott-End-on-Sea 30
Cold Row 12
Moor End 12
Sower Carr 9
Pilling Lane 9
Pilling 1
Dam Side 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Fleetwood. 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 Fleetwood 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 Hambleton & Stalmine ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Hambleton & Stalmine (Best) 28541/32845
Preesall 28362/32845
Pheasant's Wood 24095/32845
Cleveleys Park 24056/32845
Marsh Mill 23757/32845
Rossall 13641/32845
Warren 11603/32845
Mount 7343/32845
Park 7083/32845
Pharos (Worst) 1146/32845
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Your Health in Fleetwood

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Blackpool 2.2% 7.28%
Lancaster 1.3% 4.49%
Wyre (Fleetwood) 1.66% 5.52%
Fylde 1.37% 4.87%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Hambleton & Stalmine (Best) 12485/32845
Marsh Mill 12317/32845
Pheasant's Wood 11321/32845
Warren 8785/32845
Preesall 8255/32845
Cleveleys Park 8166/32845
Mount 5032/32845
Rossall 4833/32845
Park 4475/32845
Pharos (Worst) 989/32845
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Deprivation in Fleetwood

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 Fleetwood. 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.

Ward Average rank in England
Hambleton & Stalmine (Best) 22156/32845
Marsh Mill 20973/32845
Pheasant's Wood 20831/32845
Cleveleys Park 14681/32845
Preesall 14218/32845
Warren 12198/32845
Rossall 8882/32845
Mount 7193/32845
Park 5997/32845
Pharos (Worst) 1318/32845

Average rent in Fleetwood

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Fleetwood

If you are thinking of moving to Fleetwood, 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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