Is Immingham, Lincolnshire a nice place to live?

Is Immingham a nice place to live or is Immingham rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Immingham 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 Immingham truly a nice place to live, or are Cleethorpes, Grimsby and Little Coates a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Immingham?

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 Immingham. 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
Immingham 31
Great Coates 28
Healing 4
Aylesby 4
Ulceby 2
Keelby 2
North Killingholme 1
South Killingholme 1
Ulceby Skitter 1
Great Limber 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Immingham. 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 Immingham 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 Caistor and Yarborough ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Caistor and Yarborough (Best) 24381/32845
Immingham 20805/32845
Freshney 19345/32845
Wolds 16547/32845
Yarborough 11990/32845
Heneage 4336/32845
Park 3959/32845
South 2473/32845
West Marsh 1364/32845
East Marsh (Worst) 1154/32845
Reader Opinion:

Grimsby: the name says it all, GRIM-sby, it's an utter dump

Your Health in Immingham

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Kingston upon Hull, City of 1.61% 5.48%
East Lindsey 1.86% 6.36%
North East Lincolnshire (Immingham) 1.35% 4.7%
West Lindsey 1.11% 4.25%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Caistor and Yarborough (Best) 19799/32845
Wolds 19094/32845
Park 13783/32845
Freshney 13211/32845
Yarborough 13163/32845
Immingham 12311/32845
Heneage 8999/32845
West Marsh 5248/32845
South 4674/32845
East Marsh (Worst) 4080/32845
Reader Opinion:

Grimsby Economically dire

Deprivation in Immingham

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 Immingham. 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
Wolds (Best) 20877/32845
Caistor and Yarborough 20847/32845
Freshney 16215/32845
Park 13203/32845
Immingham 12702/32845
Yarborough 12639/32845
Heneage 7322/32845
South 3291/32845
West Marsh 1629/32845
East Marsh (Worst) 1216/32845

Average rent in Immingham

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Immingham

If you are thinking of moving to Immingham, 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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