Is Clayton le Moors, Lancashire a nice place to live?

Is Clayton le Moors a nice place to live or is Clayton le Moors rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Clayton le Moors 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 Clayton le Moors truly a nice place to live, or are Accrington, Great Harwood and Oswaldtwistle a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Clayton le Moors?

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 Clayton le Moors. 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
Milnshaw 172
Accrington 166
Spring Hill 96
Church 82
Tottleworth 56
Great Harwood 48
Oakenshaw 47
Edge End 37
Altham 1
Calder 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Clayton le Moors. 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 Clayton le Moors 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 Clayton-le-Moors ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Clayton-le-Moors (Best) 14081/32845
Altham 12067/32845
Milnshaw 10854/32845
Netherton 9581/32845
Central 6175/32845
Barnfield 5543/32845
Church 5362/32845
St Andrew's 4369/32845
Spring Hill 4359/32845
Peel (Worst) 2931/32845
Reader Opinion:

Newton Heath, Manchester, put simply is the arse-end of the world

Your Health in Clayton le Moors

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Blackburn with Darwen 1.58% 5.71%
Hyndburn (Clayton le Moors) 1.66% 5.95%
Rossendale 1.41% 5.11%
Ribble Valley 0.85% 3.16%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Altham (Best) 4830/32845
Netherton 4260/32845
Milnshaw 4229/32845
Clayton-le-Moors 4055/32845
Barnfield 2690/32845
St Andrew's 2400/32845
Church 1772/32845
Spring Hill 1767/32845
Peel 1666/32845
Central (Worst) 1625/32845
Reader Opinion:

Clayton, Manchester, who needs soaps when you have this sh*t?

Deprivation in Clayton le Moors

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 Clayton le Moors. 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
Clayton-le-Moors (Best) 10992/32845
Altham 10604/32845
Milnshaw 7781/32845
Netherton 6799/32845
Barnfield 5897/32845
St Andrew's 5479/32845
Peel 2639/32845
Spring Hill 2278/32845
Church 1835/32845
Central (Worst) 869/32845

Average rent in Clayton le Moors

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Clayton le Moors

If you are thinking of moving to Clayton le Moors, 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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