Is Carlton, Nottinghamshire a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Carlton?

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 Carlton. 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
Porchester 104
Mapperley 92
Carlton 91
Gedling 79
Colwick 40
Netherfield 40
Adbolton 25
Radcliffe on Trent 6
Stoke Bardolph 5
Holme Pierrepont 2

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Carlton. 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 Carlton 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 Plains ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Plains (Best) 25562/32845
Phoenix 24845/32845
Porchester 24244/32845
Gamston North 22476/32845
Gedling 21784/32845
Cavendish 20317/32845
Carlton 20177/32845
Carlton Hill 20127/32845
Colwick 17666/32845
Netherfield (Worst) 16867/32845
Reader Opinion:

Bulwell: a market town... mostly down market

Your Health in Carlton

If you are thinking of moving to Carlton, 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 Carlton 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%
Gedling (Carlton) 1.17% 4.1%
Broxtowe 1.14% 4.13%
Rushcliffe 0.87% 3.12%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Gamston North (Best) 27244/32845
Plains 24700/32845
Porchester 24415/32845
Gedling 20717/32845
Phoenix 20115/32845
Carlton Hill 16611/32845
Carlton 16446/32845
Colwick 15179/32845
Cavendish 14860/32845
Netherfield (Worst) 10530/32845
Reader Opinion:

Nottingham? It should be called Shottingham.

Deprivation in Carlton

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 Carlton. 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
Porchester (Best) 27259/32845
Gamston North 27066/32845
Plains 25740/32845
Gedling 20809/32845
Phoenix 20015/32845
Carlton 16711/32845
Cavendish 15986/32845
Carlton Hill 15740/32845
Colwick 13738/32845
Netherfield (Worst) 9976/32845

Average rent in Carlton

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Carlton

If you are thinking of moving to Carlton, 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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