Is Crowland, Lincolnshire a nice place to live?

Is Crowland a nice place to live or is Crowland rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Crowland 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 Crowland truly a nice place to live, or are Peterborough, Market Deeping and The Deepings a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Crowland?

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 Crowland. 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
Crowland 31
Eye Green 17
Frognall 3
Holbeach Drove 3
Hop Pole 1
Peak Hill 1
Newborough 0
Nene Terrace 0
Dowsdale 0
Brotherhouse Bar 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Crowland. 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 Crowland 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 Market & West Deeping ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Market & West Deeping (Best) 30776/32845
Deeping St James 29897/32845
Moulton, Weston and Cowbit 27758/32845
Whaplode and Holbeach St John's 24083/32845
Werrington 21955/32845
Gunthorpe 13325/32845
Eye, Thorney and Newborough 10457/32845
Paston and Walton 6908/32845
Park 6875/32845
Dogsthorpe (Worst) 2331/32845
Reader Opinion:

Peterborough: oh for a nuclear bomb (or a really big bulldozer)

Your Health in Crowland

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Peterborough 1.13% 4.04%
Fenland 1.36% 4.82%
South Holland (Crowland) 1.38% 4.72%
East Northamptonshire 0.97% 3.39%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Deeping St James (Best) 25385/32845
Market & West Deeping 21037/32845
Moulton, Weston and Cowbit 20062/32845
Whaplode and Holbeach St John's 18228/32845
Park 14292/32845
Werrington 14020/32845
Gunthorpe 11782/32845
Eye, Thorney and Newborough 11228/32845
Paston and Walton 7996/32845
Dogsthorpe (Worst) 5676/32845
Reader Opinion:

Loughborough - "Luffbra" - it's sh*t me duck

Deprivation in Crowland

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 Crowland. 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
Deeping St James (Best) 27876/32845
Market & West Deeping 23491/32845
Werrington 19188/32845
Moulton, Weston and Cowbit 18014/32845
Gunthorpe 14910/32845
Whaplode and Holbeach St John's 14132/32845
Park 12609/32845
Eye, Thorney and Newborough 12593/32845
Paston and Walton 8574/32845
Dogsthorpe (Worst) 4357/32845

Average rent in Crowland

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Crowland

If you are thinking of moving to Crowland, 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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