Is Camborne, Cornwall a nice place to live?

Is Camborne a nice place to live or is Camborne rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Camborne 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 Camborne truly a nice place to live, or are Hayle, Helston and Redruth a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Camborne?

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 Camborne. 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
Camborne 0
Beacon 0
Brea 0
Higher Condurrow 0
Pengegon 0
Reskadinnick 0
South Tehidy 0
Tolvaddon Downs 0
Penponds 0
Tolcarne 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Camborne. 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 Camborne 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 Mount Hawke and Portreath ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Mount Hawke and Portreath (Best) 27741/32845
Illogan 24086/32845
Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth 22145/32845
Four Lanes 21972/32845
Pool and Tehidy 20547/32845
Camborne Treslothan 16672/32845
Camborne Treswithian 15238/32845
Camborne Pendarves 14672/32845
Camborne Roskear 12961/32845
Camborne Trelowarren (Worst) 9139/32845
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Your Health in Camborne

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Cornwall (Camborne) 1.43% 4.87%
Plymouth 1.44% 5.08%
South Hams 1.11% 3.8%
Isles of Scilly 0.59% 2.41%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Mount Hawke and Portreath (Best) 16215/32845
Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth 16162/32845
Illogan 13570/32845
Pool and Tehidy 10695/32845
Four Lanes 9526/32845
Camborne Treslothan 6962/32845
Camborne Pendarves 6340/32845
Camborne Roskear 6304/32845
Camborne Trelowarren 6152/32845
Camborne Treswithian (Worst) 5283/32845

Deprivation in Camborne

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 Camborne. 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
Mount Hawke and Portreath (Best) 13418/32845
Illogan 13355/32845
Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth 10918/32845
Pool and Tehidy 8507/32845
Four Lanes 8361/32845
Camborne Treswithian 7751/32845
Camborne Pendarves 7073/32845
Camborne Roskear 6983/32845
Camborne Trelowarren 6329/32845
Camborne Treslothan (Worst) 6313/32845

Average rent in Camborne

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Camborne

If you are thinking of moving to Camborne, 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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