So you are thinking of moving to Barrow Hill and Whittington in Derbyshire? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Barrow Hill and Whittington is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Barrow Hill and Whittington the land of milk and honey or are Chesterfield, Eckington and Staveley a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Barrow Hill and Whittington
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Barrow Hill and Whittington. 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Brimington Common | 37 |
| New Brimington | 35 |
| Hollingwood | 35 |
| Brimington | 28 |
| Eckington | 24 |
| Barrow Hill | 24 |
| Netherthorpe | 23 |
| Renishaw | 9 |
| Nether Handley | 3 |
| Marsh Lane | 1 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Barrow Hill and Whittington. These statitics 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 collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Barrow Hill and Whittington. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Moor (Best) | 17222/32845 |
| Middlecroft and Poolsbrook | 19117/32845 |
| Lowgates and Woodthorpe | 20391/32845 |
| Eckington South & Renishaw | 22672/32845 |
| Old Whittington | 22698/32845 |
| Barrow Hill and New Whittington | 23016/32845 |
| Brimington North | 23694/32845 |
| Hollingwood and Inkersall | 24991/32845 |
| Dunston | 26124/32845 |
| Brimington South (Worst) | 27780/32845 |
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Your Health in Barrow Hill and Whittington
If you are thinking of moving to Barrow Hill and Whittington, 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 Barrow Hill and Whittington compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield | 1.39% | 4.83% | 13.7% | 33.35% | 46.73% |
| Mansfield | 1.8% | 6.2% | 16.2% | 34.36% | 41.44% |
| Chesterfield (Barrow Hill and Whittington) | 1.64% | 5.98% | 16.36% | 34.32% | 41.69% |
| Bolsover | 1.83% | 6.79% | 17.09% | 33.51% | 40.77% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Barrow Hill and Whittington. 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 Barrow Hill and Whittington. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Eckington South & Renishaw (Best) | 13882/32845 |
| Lowgates and Woodthorpe | 2456/32845 |
| Moor | 2804/32845 |
| Dunston | 3109/32845 |
| Old Whittington | 4541/32845 |
| Brimington North | 4596/32845 |
| Hollingwood and Inkersall | 5070/32845 |
| Brimington South | 6013/32845 |
| Barrow Hill and New Whittington | 6098/32845 |
| Middlecroft and Poolsbrook (Worst) | 838/32845 |
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Deprivation in Barrow Hill and Whittington
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 Barrow Hill and Whittington. 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 |
|---|---|
| Brimington North (Best) | 10045/32845 |
| Old Whittington | 10362/32845 |
| Barrow Hill and New Whittington | 12288/32845 |
| Hollingwood and Inkersall | 13018/32845 |
| Eckington South & Renishaw | 14648/32845 |
| Brimington South | 16659/32845 |
| Middlecroft and Poolsbrook | 3333/32845 |
| Dunston | 7308/32845 |
| Lowgates and Woodthorpe | 7716/32845 |
| Moor (Worst) | 7812/32845 |
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