So you are thinking of moving to Crook in Durham? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Crook is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Crook the land of milk and honey or are Eastington, Greater Willington and Willington a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Crook
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of February 2021 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Crook. 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Crook | 31 |
| Billy Row | 23 |
| Helmington Row | 21 |
| Tow Law | 5 |
| Oakenshaw | 3 |
| New Hunwick | 2 |
| Craigside | 2 |
| Fir Tree | 2 |
| High Grange | 1 |
| Wear | 1 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Crook. These statitics 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 collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Crook. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| West Auckland (Best) | 15552/32845 |
| Crook | 15376/32845 |
| Evenwood | 14622/32845 |
| Tudhoe | 13196/32845 |
| Spennymoor | 11459/32845 |
| Tow Law | 9511/32845 |
| Willington and Hunwick | 9067/32845 |
| Bishop Auckland Town | 8628/32845 |
| Woodhouse Close | 4740/32845 |
| Shildon and Dene Valley (Worst) | 3690/32845 |
Willington & Sunnybrow, bleak sh*tholes somewhere in County Durham
Your Health in Crook
If you are thinking of moving to Crook, 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 Crook compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham (Crook) | 1.82% | 6.35% | 16.06% | 33.43% | 42.35% |
| Sunderland | 1.99% | 6.59% | 15.95% | 32.87% | 42.6% |
| Darlington | 1.36% | 4.51% | 14.32% | 35.24% | 44.57% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Crook. 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 Crook. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Spennymoor (Best) | 9316/32845 |
| Evenwood | 9202/32845 |
| West Auckland | 7851/32845 |
| Tudhoe | 7575/32845 |
| Crook | 7051/32845 |
| Willington and Hunwick | 6652/32845 |
| Bishop Auckland Town | 6482/32845 |
| Tow Law | 5939/32845 |
| Shildon and Dene Valley | 4337/32845 |
| Woodhouse Close (Worst) | 2472/32845 |
Stanley Crook - A place where no one lives and no one has heard of
Deprivation in Crook
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 Crook. 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 |
|---|---|
| Spennymoor (Best) | 14088/32845 |
| Evenwood | 12640/32845 |
| West Auckland | 12561/32845 |
| Bishop Auckland Town | 12223/32845 |
| Tudhoe | 11477/32845 |
| Crook | 10372/32845 |
| Willington and Hunwick | 10253/32845 |
| Tow Law | 7685/32845 |
| Shildon and Dene Valley | 4561/32845 |
| Woodhouse Close (Worst) | 4081/32845 |
