Is Cramlington, Northumberland a nice place to live?

Is Cramlington a nice place to live or is Cramlington rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Cramlington 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 Cramlington truly a nice place to live, or are Bedlington, Blyth and West Bedlington a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Cramlington?

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 Cramlington. 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
Cramlington 60
Mayfield 51
Collingwood 41
Nelson Village 39
Bedlington 35
New Delaval 32
Beaconhill 31
Southfield 29
Annitsford 12
Nedderton 6

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Cramlington. 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 Cramlington 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 Cramlington North ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Cramlington North (Best) 25898/32845
Cramlington West 23329/32845
Ponteland East and Stannington 22887/32845
Cramlington South East 22351/32845
Cramlington Village 17932/32845
Cramlington Eastfield 17581/32845
Bedlington West 13960/32845
Cramlington East 9010/32845
Seghill with Seaton Delaval 6872/32845
Newsham (Worst) 2745/32845
Reader Opinion:

Amble: the population of 6,022 is now almost entirely related

Your Health in Cramlington

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Newcastle upon Tyne 1.55% 5.28%
North Tyneside 1.5% 5.3%
South Tyneside 1.91% 6.34%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Ponteland East and Stannington (Best) 24742/32845
Cramlington North 18443/32845
Bedlington West 13111/32845
Cramlington Village 12521/32845
Cramlington West 12491/32845
Cramlington South East 11661/32845
Cramlington Eastfield 11575/32845
Newsham 8648/32845
Seghill with Seaton Delaval 8217/32845
Cramlington East (Worst) 6982/32845
Reader Opinion:

Blyth: ner'do'well capital of Northumberland..... with a KFC

Deprivation in Cramlington

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 Cramlington. 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
Ponteland East and Stannington (Best) 26782/32845
Cramlington North 25295/32845
Cramlington South East 18864/32845
Bedlington West 18365/32845
Cramlington Eastfield 17788/32845
Cramlington Village 17355/32845
Cramlington West 16900/32845
Seghill with Seaton Delaval 11249/32845
Cramlington East 8758/32845
Newsham (Worst) 7585/32845

Average rent in Cramlington

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Cramlington

If you are thinking of moving to Cramlington, 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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