Is Coal Pool, West Midlands a nice place to live?

Is Coal Pool a nice place to live or is Coal Pool rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Coal Pool 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 Coal Pool truly a nice place to live, or are Fazeley, Perry Crofts and Tamworth a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Coal Pool?

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 Coal Pool. 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
Tamworth 99
Belgrave 95
Amington 75
Alvecote 39
Birchmoor 20
Polesworth 19
Little Warton 9
Warton 9
Shuttington 4
Newton Regis 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Coal Pool. 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 Coal Pool 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 Mease Valley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Mease Valley (Best) 29087/32845
Polesworth West 27164/32845
Newton Regis and Warton 23073/32845
Polesworth East 22847/32845
Wilnecote 20585/32845
Amington 20199/32845
Spital 15527/32845
Bolehall 14322/32845
Stonydelph 11989/32845
Glascote (Worst) 8444/32845
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Your Health in Coal Pool

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

Town Very Bad Bad
North West Leicestershire 1.15% 3.99%
Hinckley and Bosworth 0.98% 3.63%
Tamworth 1.31% 4.43%
North Warwickshire (Coal Pool) 1.38% 4.6%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Mease Valley (Best) 26646/32845
Polesworth West 24928/32845
Newton Regis and Warton 21172/32845
Polesworth East 19241/32845
Wilnecote 16586/32845
Stonydelph 14356/32845
Amington 12203/32845
Spital 12024/32845
Bolehall 11683/32845
Glascote (Worst) 8316/32845
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Deprivation in Coal Pool

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 Coal Pool. 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
Polesworth West (Best) 25997/32845
Newton Regis and Warton 23040/32845
Mease Valley 21122/32845
Wilnecote 19750/32845
Polesworth East 18757/32845
Spital 17482/32845
Amington 16303/32845
Stonydelph 14919/32845
Bolehall 14616/32845
Glascote (Worst) 8533/32845

Average rent in Coal Pool

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Coal Pool

If you are thinking of moving to Coal Pool, 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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