Is Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire a nice place to live?

Is Burton Latimer a nice place to live or is Burton Latimer rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Burton Latimer 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 Burton Latimer truly a nice place to live, or are Irthlingborough, Kettering and Wellingborough a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Burton Latimer?

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 Burton Latimer. 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
Kettering 173
Weekley 111
Warkton 65
Barton Seagrave 25
Finedon 11
Isham 8
Cranford St John 4
Little Addington 3
Great Addington 0
Cranford St Andrew 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Burton Latimer. 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 Burton Latimer 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 Ise Lodge ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Ise Lodge (Best) 26471/32845
Barton 26346/32845
St Peter's 20855/32845
Burton Latimer 19680/32845
St Michael's and Wicksteed 13162/32845
Harrowden & Sywell 12609/32845
Rixon 12551/32845
Pipers Hill 10669/32845
All Saints 6751/32845
Avondale Grange (Worst) 5613/32845
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Your Health in Burton Latimer

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Northampton 1.03% 3.61%
Kettering (Burton Latimer) 1.01% 3.72%
Wellingborough 1.16% 3.95%
Corby 1.36% 4.4%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Harrowden & Sywell (Best) 23272/32845
Barton 21059/32845
Ise Lodge 19642/32845
Burton Latimer 17025/32845
St Peter's 16243/32845
Rixon 14162/32845
Pipers Hill 12995/32845
All Saints 11330/32845
St Michael's and Wicksteed 11062/32845
Avondale Grange (Worst) 6363/32845
Reader Opinion:

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Deprivation in Burton Latimer

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 Burton Latimer. 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
Ise Lodge (Best) 27163/32845
Barton 26779/32845
Harrowden & Sywell 21859/32845
St Peter's 19803/32845
Burton Latimer 18556/32845
Rixon 13785/32845
Pipers Hill 12343/32845
St Michael's and Wicksteed 11417/32845
All Saints 10956/32845
Avondale Grange (Worst) 4367/32845

Average rent in Burton Latimer

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Burton Latimer

If you are thinking of moving to Burton Latimer, 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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