Is Arnold, Nottinghamshire a nice place to live?

Is Arnold a nice place to live or is Arnold rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Arnold 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 Arnold truly a nice place to live, or are Carlton, Netherfield and Nottingham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Arnold?

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 Arnold. 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
Mapperley Park 233
Top Valley 144
Sherwood 134
Porchester 104
Bestwood 102
Mapperley 92
Redhill 86
Bestwood Village 50
Arnold 49
Calverton 10

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Arnold. 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 Arnold 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 Woodthorpe ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Woodthorpe (Best) 26854/32845
Plains 25562/32845
Phoenix 24845/32845
Porchester 24244/32845
Coppice 19572/32845
Ernehale 19124/32845
Redhill 17606/32845
Daybrook 12317/32845
Sherwood 10745/32845
Bestwood (Worst) 7713/32845
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Your Health in Arnold

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Nottingham 1.53% 4.93%
Ashfield 1.5% 5.66%
Gedling (Arnold) 1.17% 4.1%
Broxtowe 1.14% 4.13%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Woodthorpe (Best) 24733/32845
Plains 24700/32845
Porchester 24415/32845
Phoenix 20115/32845
Redhill 18590/32845
Coppice 17528/32845
Ernehale 16360/32845
Daybrook 13782/32845
Sherwood 7347/32845
Bestwood (Worst) 3854/32845
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Deprivation in Arnold

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 Arnold. 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
Woodthorpe (Best) 28947/32845
Porchester 27259/32845
Plains 25740/32845
Phoenix 20015/32845
Redhill 18849/32845
Coppice 18756/32845
Ernehale 18590/32845
Daybrook 11273/32845
Sherwood 9822/32845
Bestwood (Worst) 3912/32845

Average rent in Arnold

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Arnold

If you are thinking of moving to Arnold, 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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