Is Great Yarmouth, Norfolk a nice place to live?

Is Great Yarmouth a nice place to live or is Great Yarmouth rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Great Yarmouth 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 Great Yarmouth truly a nice place to live, or are Acle, Caister on Sea and Gorleston a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Great Yarmouth?

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 Great Yarmouth. 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
Great Yarmouth206
Southtown136
Cobholm Island98
Runham96
Gorleston-on-Sea67
South Denes56
Caister-on-Sea25
Burgh Castle9
Mautby0
Filby Heath0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Great Yarmouth. 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 Great Yarmouth 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 Bradwell North ward.

WardAverage rank in England
Bradwell North (Best)29307/32845
Caister South22413/32845
Gorleston18184/32845
Magdalen16834/32845
Claydon10673/32845
St Andrews10225/32845
Southtown and Cobholm10056/32845
Yarmouth North5804/32845
Nelson3340/32845
Central and Northgate (Worst)2598/32845
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Your Health in Great Yarmouth

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

TownVery BadBad
Norwich1.24%4.42%
Great Yarmouth (Great Yarmouth)1.63%5.48%
North Norfolk1.39%4.77%
Broadland1.08%3.61%

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

WardAverage rank in England
Bradwell North (Best)15429/32845
Gorleston11683/32845
Caister South11350/32845
St Andrews9809/32845
Yarmouth North7963/32845
Magdalen7191/32845
Southtown and Cobholm6527/32845
Claydon4097/32845
Central and Northgate3903/32845
Nelson (Worst)1841/32845

Deprivation in Great Yarmouth

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 Great Yarmouth. 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
Bradwell North (Best)21862/32845
Gorleston15006/32845
Caister South13270/32845
St Andrews7789/32845
Yarmouth North6678/32845
Magdalen6523/32845
Claydon3952/32845
Southtown and Cobholm3776/32845
Central and Northgate2250/32845
Nelson (Worst)508/32845

Average rent in Great Yarmouth

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Great Yarmouth

If you are thinking of moving to Great Yarmouth, 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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