Is Crowborough, East Sussex a nice place to live?

Is Crowborough a nice place to live or is Crowborough rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Crowborough 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 Crowborough truly a nice place to live, or are Uckfield, Royal Tunbridge Wells and Tunbridge Wells a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Crowborough?

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 Crowborough. 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
Crowborough 21
Blackness 20
Alderbrook 11
St John’s 11
Jarvis Brook 10
Crowborough Warren 6
Town Row 3
Rotherfield 3
Boarshead 1
Burnt Oak 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Crowborough. 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 Crowborough 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 Mayfield & Five Ashes ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Mayfield & Five Ashes (Best) 31318/32845
Crowborough St Johns 30186/32845
Crowborough South East 27894/32845
Hadlow Down & Rotherfield 27595/32845
Crowborough Central 26917/32845
Withyham 26718/32845
Crowborough Jarvis Brook 26207/32845
Maresfield 24614/32845
Crowborough North 23834/32845
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Your Health in Crowborough

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Wealden (Crowborough) 0.96% 3.49%
Lewes 1.21% 4.17%
Crawley 0.97% 3.45%
Tunbridge Wells 0.78% 3.09%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Withyham (Best) 32024/32845
Crowborough North 31554/32845
Maresfield 31318/32845
Hadlow Down & Rotherfield 30905/32845
Mayfield & Five Ashes 30327/32845
Crowborough Central 28959/32845
Crowborough South East 28938/32845
Crowborough St Johns 28905/32845
Crowborough Jarvis Brook 28510/32845
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Deprivation in Crowborough

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 Crowborough. 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
Crowborough North (Best) 29325/32845
Crowborough St Johns 27485/32845
Crowborough Central 27345/32845
Hadlow Down & Rotherfield 26398/32845
Crowborough Jarvis Brook 25801/32845
Crowborough South East 25323/32845
Mayfield & Five Ashes 24910/32845
Withyham 24203/32845
Maresfield 20909/32845

Average rent in Crowborough

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Crowborough

If you are thinking of moving to Crowborough, 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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