Is Cromer, Norfolk a nice place to live?

Is Cromer a nice place to live or is Cromer rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Cromer 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 Cromer truly a nice place to live, or are Holt, North Walsham and Sheringham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Cromer?

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 Cromer. 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
Cromer 13
Beeston Regis 10
Sheringham 10
Northrepps 7
Sheringwood 3
Frogshall 2
Sidestrand 1
Crossdale Street 1
Roughton 0
Aylmerton 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Cromer. 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 Cromer 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 Poppyland ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Poppyland (Best) 32335/32845
Beeston Regis & The Runtons 31235/32845
Roughton 30266/32845
Gresham 29980/32845
Bacton 29970/32845
Suffield Park 28414/32845
Mundesley 27726/32845
Sheringham South 27617/32845
Sheringham North 24050/32845
Cromer Town (Worst) 23935/32845
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Your Health in Cromer

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Norwich 1.24% 4.42%
Great Yarmouth 1.63% 5.48%
North Norfolk (Cromer) 1.39% 4.77%
Broadland 1.08% 3.61%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Roughton (Best) 21669/32845
Gresham 21081/32845
Poppyland 18861/32845
Sheringham South 18236/32845
Beeston Regis & The Runtons 16035/32845
Sheringham North 15059/32845
Bacton 14369/32845
Suffield Park 10904/32845
Mundesley 9317/32845
Cromer Town (Worst) 8840/32845
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Deprivation in Cromer

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 Cromer. 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
Sheringham South (Best) 17758/32845
Sheringham North 16828/32845
Beeston Regis & The Runtons 16369/32845
Suffield Park 14814/32845
Roughton 14039/32845
Gresham 13499/32845
Poppyland 11959/32845
Mundesley 11641/32845
Cromer Town 11370/32845
Bacton (Worst) 9422/32845

Average rent in Cromer

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Cromer

If you are thinking of moving to Cromer, 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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