Is Coggeshall, Essex a nice place to live?

Is Coggeshall a nice place to live or is Coggeshall rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Coggeshall 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 Coggeshall truly a nice place to live, or are Braintree, Halstead and Witham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Coggeshall?

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 Coggeshall. 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
Gore Pit 9
Feering 9
Coggeshall 4
Tilkey 3
Langley Green 2
Little Tey 1
Pattiswick 1
Great Tey 1
Stockstreet 0
Coggeshall Hamlet 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Coggeshall. 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 Coggeshall 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 Great Totham ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Great Totham (Best) 29978/32845
The Colnes 28440/32845
Kelvedon & Feering 24877/32845
Coggeshall 22361/32845
Bocking Blackwater 21608/32845
Halstead St Andrew's 21569/32845
Tiptree 18679/32845
Halstead Trinity 17459/32845
Silver End & Cressing 13891/32845
Witham North (Worst) 11859/32845
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Your Health in Coggeshall

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Colchester 0.96% 3.29%
Braintree (Coggeshall) 0.93% 3.43%
Chelmsford 0.81% 2.84%
Babergh 0.89% 3.45%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Great Totham (Best) 29118/32845
Coggeshall 25162/32845
The Colnes 24315/32845
Kelvedon & Feering 24201/32845
Bocking Blackwater 22665/32845
Tiptree 22583/32845
Silver End & Cressing 21091/32845
Halstead St Andrew's 20480/32845
Halstead Trinity 18474/32845
Witham North (Worst) 15919/32845
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Deprivation in Coggeshall

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 Coggeshall. 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
Great Totham (Best) 26311/32845
Kelvedon & Feering 25954/32845
Bocking Blackwater 24664/32845
Tiptree 23042/32845
The Colnes 23040/32845
Coggeshall 22538/32845
Halstead St Andrew's 21182/32845
Halstead Trinity 18370/32845
Silver End & Cressing 17189/32845
Witham North (Worst) 15570/32845

Average rent in Coggeshall

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Coggeshall

If you are thinking of moving to Coggeshall, 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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