Is Coalville, Leicestershire a nice place to live?

Is Coalville a nice place to live or is Coalville rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Coalville 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 Coalville truly a nice place to live, or are Ashby de la Zouch, Ashby Woulds and Shepshed a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Coalville?

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 Coalville. 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
Coalville 51
New Swannington 48
Agar Nook 44
Greenhill 35
Donington le Heath 18
Coleorton 3
Ravenstone 3
Coleorton Moor 3
Peggs Green 2
Church Town 2

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Coalville. 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 Coalville 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 Coalville East ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Coalville East (Best) 21074/32845
Thornborough 19902/32845
Hermitage 19143/32845
Holly Hayes 19143/32845
Snibston North 17819/32845
Snibston South 17282/32845
Hugglescote St John's 16464/32845
Coalville West 16022/32845
Hugglescote St Mary's 14952/32845
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Your Health in Coalville

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Charnwood 0.89% 3.29%
North West Leicestershire (Coalville) 1.15% 3.99%
Rushcliffe 0.87% 3.12%
Blaby 0.88% 3.28%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Hermitage (Best) 19046/32845
Holly Hayes 19046/32845
Thornborough 18367/32845
Snibston South 16699/32845
Snibston North 16116/32845
Hugglescote St Mary's 15117/32845
Coalville East 14001/32845
Hugglescote St John's 13778/32845
Coalville West 10940/32845
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Deprivation in Coalville

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 Coalville. 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
Hermitage (Best) 22157/32845
Holly Hayes 22157/32845
Thornborough 21989/32845
Hugglescote St John's 20932/32845
Hugglescote St Mary's 18648/32845
Coalville East 18431/32845
Snibston South 17147/32845
Snibston North 16003/32845
Coalville West 14292/32845

Average rent in Coalville

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Coalville

If you are thinking of moving to Coalville, 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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