Is Charlestown, Cornwall a nice place to live?

Is Charlestown a nice place to live or is Charlestown rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Charlestown 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 Charlestown truly a nice place to live, or are Par, St Austell and St Blazey a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Charlestown?

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 Charlestown. 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
Holmbush 0
Bethel 0
Boscoppa 0
Charlestown 0
Carlyon Bay 0
Lower Porthpean 0
Garker 0
Bodelva 0
Biscovey 0
Higher Porthpean 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Charlestown. 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 Charlestown 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 St Mewan ward.

Ward Average rank in England
St Mewan (Best) 30465/32845
St Austell Bethel 28329/32845
Mevagissey 27803/32845
Penwithick and Boscoppa 25207/32845
St Austell Bay 23206/32845
St Austell Poltair 21756/32845
St Blazey 19388/32845
Bugle 19141/32845
Mount Charles 17048/32845
St Austell Gover (Worst) 14114/32845

Your Health in Charlestown

If you are thinking of moving to Charlestown, 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 Charlestown 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 (Charlestown) 1.43% 4.87%
Plymouth 1.44% 5.08%
South Hams 1.11% 3.8%
West Devon 1.18% 3.96%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Mevagissey (Best) 19328/32845
St Mewan 17980/32845
St Austell Bay 17495/32845
St Austell Bethel 17492/32845
Penwithick and Boscoppa 16936/32845
St Austell Poltair 15076/32845
St Blazey 13775/32845
Bugle 12253/32845
Mount Charles 10539/32845
St Austell Gover (Worst) 6092/32845

Deprivation in Charlestown

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 Charlestown. 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
St Austell Bethel (Best) 19521/32845
St Austell Bay 17325/32845
St Austell Poltair 15768/32845
St Mewan 15684/32845
Mevagissey 14307/32845
Penwithick and Boscoppa 14215/32845
St Blazey 12270/32845
Mount Charles 11299/32845
Bugle 7240/32845
St Austell Gover (Worst) 6549/32845

Average rent in Charlestown

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Charlestown

If you are thinking of moving to Charlestown, 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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