Is Clitheroe, Lancashire a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Clitheroe?

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 Clitheroe. 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
Pimlico 18
Horrocksford 18
Little Moor 18
Nethertown 11
Barrow 10
Chatburn 5
Great Mitton 4
Sabden 4
Pendleton 3
Downham 3

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Clitheroe. 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 Clitheroe 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 Hurst Green & Whitewell ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Hurst Green & Whitewell (Best) 30971/32845
West Bradford & Grindleton 30917/32845
Waddington, Bashall Eaves & Mitton 27970/32845
Chatburn 27571/32845
St Mary's 26121/32845
Salthill 23615/32845
Wiswell & Barrow 22981/32845
Edisford & Low Moor 22517/32845
Primrose 18849/32845
Littlemoor (Worst) 18646/32845
Reader Opinion:

Padiham: the skid mark of Lancashire

Your Health in Clitheroe

If you are thinking of moving to Clitheroe, 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 Clitheroe 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%
Burnley 1.73% 5.99%
Pendle 1.46% 5.5%
Ribble Valley (Clitheroe) 0.85% 3.16%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Wiswell & Barrow (Best) 29321/32845
West Bradford & Grindleton 27157/32845
Waddington, Bashall Eaves & Mitton 26642/32845
Hurst Green & Whitewell 25203/32845
Chatburn 23423/32845
Salthill 18407/32845
Primrose 18108/32845
St Mary's 15975/32845
Littlemoor 14390/32845
Edisford & Low Moor (Worst) 13467/32845
Reader Opinion:

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

Deprivation in Clitheroe

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 Clitheroe. 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
Wiswell & Barrow (Best) 28529/32845
Chatburn 27019/32845
West Bradford & Grindleton 26292/32845
St Mary's 24604/32845
Salthill 23260/32845
Waddington, Bashall Eaves & Mitton 21371/32845
Primrose 18830/32845
Edisford & Low Moor 17547/32845
Littlemoor 16850/32845
Hurst Green & Whitewell (Worst) 16832/32845

Average rent in Clitheroe

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Clitheroe

If you are thinking of moving to Clitheroe, 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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