Is Cleator Moor, Cumbria a nice place to live?

Is Cleator Moor a nice place to live or is Cleator Moor rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Cleator Moor 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 Cleator Moor truly a nice place to live, or are Egremont, Orgill and Whitehaven a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Cleator Moor?

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 Cleator Moor. 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
Mirehouse 17
Keekle 14
Wath Brow 13
Parkside 13
Frizington 12
Briscoe 7
Pallaflat 3
Bigrigg 2
Moor Row 2

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Cleator Moor. 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 Cleator Moor 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 Hillcrest ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Hillcrest (Best) 28402/32845
Moor Row & Bigrigg 26555/32845
Egremont 25184/32845
Corkickle 24695/32845
Sneckyeat 21725/32845
Kells 21161/32845
Whitehaven Central 20850/32845
Arlecdon & Ennerdale 19413/32845
Cleator Moor 19003/32845
Whitehaven South (Worst) 16841/32845
Reader Opinion:

Egremont - crushingly depressing

Your Health in Cleator Moor

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Carlisle 1.34% 4.62%
Allerdale 1.31% 4.94%
Barrow-in-Furness 1.8% 6.57%
Copeland (Cleator Moor) 1.5% 5.33%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Hillcrest (Best) 11937/32845
Corkickle 9511/32845
Moor Row & Bigrigg 8624/32845
Arlecdon & Ennerdale 8080/32845
Egremont 7935/32845
Whitehaven Central 7582/32845
Cleator Moor 5277/32845
Kells 3578/32845
Whitehaven South 3199/32845
Sneckyeat (Worst) 3186/32845

Deprivation in Cleator Moor

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 Cleator Moor. 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
Hillcrest (Best) 22265/32845
Corkickle 17207/32845
Moor Row & Bigrigg 14655/32845
Whitehaven Central 14481/32845
Egremont 13408/32845
Arlecdon & Ennerdale 12597/32845
Kells 11009/32845
Cleator Moor 9854/32845
Sneckyeat 9367/32845
Whitehaven South (Worst) 5247/32845

Average rent in Cleator Moor

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Cleator Moor

If you are thinking of moving to Cleator Moor, 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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