Is Bingham, Nottinghamshire a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Bingham?

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 Bingham. 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
Bingham 12
Burrowsmoor Holt 12
Aslockton 6
Cropwell Butler 2
Tithby 2
Newton 1
Barnstone 1
Car Colston 0
Little Green 0
Stony Dale 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bingham. 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 Bingham 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 Thoroton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Thoroton (Best) 31573/32845
Cropwell 31300/32845
Bingham West 29699/32845
Radcliffe on Trent 29255/32845
Cranmer 27506/32845
Bingham East 27048/32845
East Bridgford 27011/32845
Cotgrave 24488/32845
Trent Valley 23517/32845
Lowdham (Worst) 20894/32845
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Your Health in Bingham

If you are thinking of moving to Bingham, 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 Bingham 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%
South Kesteven 1.04% 3.74%
Gedling 1.17% 4.1%
Rushcliffe (Bingham) 0.87% 3.12%

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

Ward Average rank in England
East Bridgford (Best) 32321/32845
Thoroton 31532/32845
Cropwell 30122/32845
Radcliffe on Trent 28900/32845
Cranmer 26915/32845
Bingham West 26650/32845
Bingham East 26379/32845
Lowdham 22731/32845
Trent Valley 22502/32845
Cotgrave (Worst) 21246/32845

Deprivation in Bingham

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 Bingham. 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
East Bridgford (Best) 30262/32845
Radcliffe on Trent 28676/32845
Cranmer 28485/32845
Cropwell 26908/32845
Bingham East 26438/32845
Lowdham 25040/32845
Bingham West 24990/32845
Thoroton 24547/32845
Trent Valley 24492/32845
Cotgrave (Worst) 21803/32845

Average rent in Bingham

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Bingham

If you are thinking of moving to Bingham, 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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