Is Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire a nice place to live?

Is Cleethorpes a nice place to live or is Cleethorpes rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Cleethorpes 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 Cleethorpes truly a nice place to live, or are Grimsby, Immingham and Little Coates a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Cleethorpes?

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 Cleethorpes. 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
Grant Thorold 282
Grimsby 265
Holme Hill 265
Littlefield 173
Grange 116
Old Clee 110
Nunsthorpe 99
Little Coates 71
Waltham 13
Holton-le-Clay 7

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Cleethorpes. 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 Cleethorpes 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 Humberston and New Waltham ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Humberston and New Waltham (Best) 25620/32845
Scartho 25435/32845
Haverstoe 15500/32845
Croft Baker 7595/32845
Heneage 4336/32845
Park 3959/32845
Sidney Sussex 2946/32845
South 2473/32845
West Marsh 1364/32845
East Marsh (Worst) 1154/32845
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Your Health in Cleethorpes

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Kingston upon Hull, City of 1.61% 5.48%
East Lindsey 1.86% 6.36%
North East Lincolnshire (Cleethorpes) 1.35% 4.7%
West Lindsey 1.11% 4.25%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Scartho (Best) 19067/32845
Haverstoe 18679/32845
Humberston and New Waltham 17505/32845
Park 13783/32845
Heneage 8999/32845
Croft Baker 8301/32845
Sidney Sussex 6824/32845
West Marsh 5248/32845
South 4674/32845
East Marsh (Worst) 4080/32845
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Deprivation in Cleethorpes

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 Cleethorpes. 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
Scartho (Best) 24020/32845
Humberston and New Waltham 23826/32845
Haverstoe 23371/32845
Park 13203/32845
Heneage 7322/32845
Croft Baker 7050/32845
Sidney Sussex 5484/32845
South 3291/32845
West Marsh 1629/32845
East Marsh (Worst) 1216/32845

Average rent in Cleethorpes

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Cleethorpes

If you are thinking of moving to Cleethorpes, 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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