Is Neston, Cheshire a nice place to live?

Is Neston a nice place to live or is Neston rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Neston 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 Neston truly a nice place to live, or are Bromborough, Heswall and Flint a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Neston?

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 Neston. 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
Bromborough 38
Bebington 33
Lower Bebington 33
Brookhurst 18
Barnston 11
Heswall 10
Poll Hill 10
Brimstage 2
Gayton 1
Storeton 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Neston. 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 Neston 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 Clatterbridge ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Clatterbridge (Best) 29256/32845
Heswall 28912/32845
Little Neston 26386/32845
Willaston & Thornton 23507/32845
Neston 18775/32845
Bagillt East 1082/32845
Flint Coleshill 740/32845
Connah's Quay Wepre 428/32845
Flint Castle 171/32845
Reader Opinion:

Flint - the arsehole of the world

Your Health in Neston

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Liverpool 2.08% 6.68%
Wirral 1.73% 5.77%
Cheshire West and Chester (Neston) 1.21% 4.33%
Flintshire 1.25% 4.44%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Willaston & Thornton (Best) 18689/32845
Little Neston 17490/32845
Heswall 16377/32845
Neston 15562/32845
Clatterbridge 11846/32845
Connah's Quay Wepre 1112/32845
Bagillt East 907/32845
Flint Coleshill 879/32845
Flint Castle 282/32845

Deprivation in Neston

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 Neston. 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
Heswall (Best) 27095/32845
Little Neston 25997/32845
Willaston & Thornton 24749/32845
Clatterbridge 23669/32845
Neston 20493/32845
Connah's Quay Wepre 1294/32845
Flint Coleshill 1038/32845
Bagillt East 940/32845
Flint Castle 320/32845

Average rent in Neston

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Neston

If you are thinking of moving to Neston, 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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