Is Amble, Northumberland a nice place to live?

Is Amble a nice place to live or is Amble rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Amble 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 Amble truly a nice place to live, or are Alnwick, Ashington and Newbiggin by the Sea a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Amble?

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 Amble. 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
High Hauxley 14
Amble 14
Togston 12
Broomhill 12
Acklington 9
Hadston 6
Warkworth 3
Radcliffe 3
North Togston 1
High Buston 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Amble. 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 Amble 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 Shilbottle ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Shilbottle (Best) 29914/32845
Amble West with Warkworth 20879/32845
Alnwick 17932/32845
Druridge Bay 17824/32845
Bothal 16223/32845
Lynemouth 12235/32845
Amble 11595/32845
Newbiggin Central and East 6354/32845
Ashington Central 2123/32845
Hirst (Worst) 882/32845
Reader Opinion:

Newbiggin-By-The-Sea full of mullet, snapback, tracky bottom wearing idiots

Your Health in Amble

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Newcastle upon Tyne 1.55% 5.28%
North Tyneside 1.5% 5.3%
South Tyneside 1.91% 6.34%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Amble West with Warkworth (Best) 20190/32845
Shilbottle 20106/32845
Alnwick 18812/32845
Lynemouth 9144/32845
Druridge Bay 8646/32845
Bothal 8353/32845
Amble 7754/32845
Newbiggin Central and East 4865/32845
Ashington Central 3734/32845
Hirst (Worst) 1939/32845
Reader Opinion:

A Depressing Lifetime in Ashington, Northumberland

Deprivation in Amble

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 Amble. 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
Amble West with Warkworth (Best) 22138/32845
Shilbottle 21083/32845
Alnwick 20587/32845
Bothal 16731/32845
Lynemouth 12538/32845
Druridge Bay 12012/32845
Amble 9136/32845
Ashington Central 4530/32845
Newbiggin Central and East 4417/32845
Hirst (Worst) 1523/32845

Average rent in Amble

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Amble

If you are thinking of moving to Amble, 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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