Is Chester le Street, Durham a nice place to live?

Is Chester le Street a nice place to live or is Chester le Street rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Chester le Street 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 Chester le Street truly a nice place to live, or are Birtley, Houghton le Spring and Washington a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Chester le Street?

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 Chester le Street. 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
Chester-Le-Street 73
South Pelaw 70
Pelton Fell 39
Harraton 27
Newfield 25
Barley Mow 23
Pelton 21
Chester Moor 12
Bournmoor 9
Great Lumley 2

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Chester le Street. 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 Chester le Street 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 North Lodge ward.

Ward Average rank in England
North Lodge (Best) 22916/32845
Chester-le-Street South 22564/32845
Lumley 17091/32845
Chester-le-Street North 16370/32845
Chester-le-Street East 15700/32845
Birtley 11839/32845
Lamesley 11714/32845
Pelton 11036/32845
Sacriston 8927/32845
Chester-le-Street West Central (Worst) 7574/32845
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Your Health in Chester le Street

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

Town Very Bad Bad
County Durham (Chester le Street) 1.82% 6.35%
Sunderland 1.99% 6.59%
South Tyneside 1.91% 6.34%

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

Ward Average rank in England
North Lodge (Best) 16340/32845
Chester-le-Street South 14677/32845
Chester-le-Street East 12962/32845
Chester-le-Street North 11183/32845
Pelton 9694/32845
Lumley 8844/32845
Sacriston 6633/32845
Birtley 6350/32845
Lamesley 5582/32845
Chester-le-Street West Central (Worst) 4112/32845
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Deprivation in Chester le Street

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 Chester le Street. 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
North Lodge (Best) 26141/32845
Chester-le-Street East 22874/32845
Chester-le-Street South 22197/32845
Chester-le-Street North 18248/32845
Lumley 16547/32845
Pelton 14908/32845
Sacriston 10992/32845
Birtley 10474/32845
Lamesley 8595/32845
Chester-le-Street West Central (Worst) 7465/32845

Average rent in Chester le Street

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Chester le Street

If you are thinking of moving to Chester le Street, 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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