Is Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire a nice place to live?

Is Cotgrave a nice place to live or is Cotgrave rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Cotgrave 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 Cotgrave truly a nice place to live, or are Bingham, Carlton and Netherfield a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Cotgrave?

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 Cotgrave. 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
Plumtree 9
Harlequin 8
Radcliffe on Trent 6
Tollerton 6
Holme Pierrepont 2
Cropwell Bishop 0
Cropwell Butler 0
Tithby 0
Holme Lane 0
Bassingfield 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Cotgrave. 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 Cotgrave 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 Cropwell ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Cropwell (Best) 31300/32845
Gamston South 30253/32845
Bingham West 29699/32845
Radcliffe on Trent 29255/32845
Tollerton 28866/32845
Edwalton 27616/32845
Abbey 27189/32845
East Bridgford 27011/32845
Cotgrave 24488/32845
Gamston North (Worst) 22476/32845
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Your Health in Cotgrave

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Nottingham 1.53% 4.93%
South Kesteven 1.04% 3.74%
Gedling 1.17% 4.1%
Rushcliffe (Cotgrave) 0.87% 3.12%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Tollerton (Best) 32618/32845
East Bridgford 32321/32845
Cropwell 30122/32845
Radcliffe on Trent 28900/32845
Gamston South 27467/32845
Gamston North 27244/32845
Abbey 27048/32845
Bingham West 26650/32845
Edwalton 23920/32845
Cotgrave (Worst) 21246/32845

Deprivation in Cotgrave

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 Cotgrave. 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
East Bridgford (Best) 30262/32845
Gamston South 29987/32845
Tollerton 29570/32845
Abbey 29309/32845
Radcliffe on Trent 28676/32845
Gamston North 27066/32845
Cropwell 26908/32845
Bingham West 24990/32845
Edwalton 23994/32845
Cotgrave (Worst) 21803/32845

Average rent in Cotgrave

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Cotgrave

If you are thinking of moving to Cotgrave, 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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