Is Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire a nice place to live?

Is Burton upon Trent a nice place to live or is Burton upon Trent rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Burton upon Trent 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 upon Trent truly a nice place to live, or are Swadlincote, Ashby de la Zouch and Ashby Woulds a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Burton upon Trent?

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 upon Trent. 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
Horninglow 119
Shobnall 116
Beam Hill 46
Newhall 37
Drakelow 22
Bretby 9
Anslow 6
Alder Moor 6
Rough Hay 1
Cokhay Green 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Burton upon Trent. 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 upon Trent 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 Repton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Repton (Best) 28900/32845
Brizlincote 25559/32845
Branston 24615/32845
Horninglow 16550/32845
Winshill 13083/32845
Shobnall 12219/32845
Anglesey 10804/32845
Burton 10387/32845
Stapenhill 9440/32845
Eton Park (Worst) 8806/32845

Your Health in Burton upon Trent

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Derby 1.31% 4.59%
East Staffordshire (Burton upon Trent) 1.09% 3.85%
North West Leicestershire 1.15% 3.99%
South Derbyshire 1.05% 3.85%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Repton (Best) 26185/32845
Brizlincote 22633/32845
Branston 18494/32845
Winshill 13389/32845
Horninglow 12993/32845
Anglesey 10593/32845
Shobnall 9053/32845
Eton Park 8560/32845
Stapenhill 8428/32845
Burton (Worst) 5213/32845

Deprivation in Burton upon Trent

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 upon Trent. 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
Brizlincote (Best) 27913/32845
Repton 25416/32845
Branston 23498/32845
Winshill 15029/32845
Horninglow 14037/32845
Shobnall 8696/32845
Eton Park 8162/32845
Stapenhill 7969/32845
Anglesey 7938/32845
Burton (Worst) 7067/32845

Average rent in Burton upon Trent

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Burton upon Trent

If you are thinking of moving to Burton upon Trent, 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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