Is Telscombe, East Sussex a nice place to live?

Is Telscombe a nice place to live or is Telscombe rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Telscombe 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 Telscombe truly a nice place to live, or are Lewes, Newhaven and Peacehaven a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Telscombe?

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 Telscombe. 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
Peacehaven 28
Harbour Heights 23
Telscombe Cliffs 21
Telscombe 12
Saltdean 10
Rottingdean 10
Tarring Neville 7
Peacehaven Heights 7
Southease 1
Iford 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Telscombe. 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 Telscombe 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 East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs ward.

Ward Average rank in England
East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs (Best) 25581/32845
Ouse Valley & Ringmer 25099/32845
Woodingdean 24054/32845
Rottingdean Coastal 23654/32845
Peacehaven North 20857/32845
Peacehaven West 18883/32845
Peacehaven East 18835/32845
Newhaven North 16411/32845
Newhaven South 12806/32845
East Brighton (Worst) 8200/32845
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Your Health in Telscombe

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Brighton and Hove 1.2% 4.08%
Wealden 0.96% 3.49%
Lewes (Telscombe) 1.21% 4.17%
Mid Sussex 0.78% 2.76%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Ouse Valley & Ringmer (Best) 23164/32845
Rottingdean Coastal 22906/32845
East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs 21022/32845
Peacehaven North 17803/32845
Woodingdean 16781/32845
Peacehaven East 16170/32845
Peacehaven West 13372/32845
Newhaven North 12790/32845
Newhaven South 11675/32845
East Brighton (Worst) 4188/32845

Deprivation in Telscombe

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 Telscombe. 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
Rottingdean Coastal (Best) 23160/32845
East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs 22626/32845
Ouse Valley & Ringmer 19602/32845
Woodingdean 16869/32845
Peacehaven North 16516/32845
Peacehaven West 13580/32845
Peacehaven East 13459/32845
Newhaven North 11511/32845
Newhaven South 9153/32845
East Brighton (Worst) 5283/32845

Average rent in Telscombe

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Telscombe

If you are thinking of moving to Telscombe, 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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