Is Ealing, London a nice place to live?

Is Ealing a nice place to live or is Ealing rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Ealing 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 Ealing truly a nice place to live, or are Acton, Brentford and Wembley a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Ealing?

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 Ealing. 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
Ealing 178
Acton 125
Lower Place 123
Stonebridge 123
Acton Green 107
Hanwell 102
Grand Union Canal 99
Alperton 96
Park Royal 94
Brent 90

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Ealing. 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 Ealing 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 Ealing Broadway ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Ealing Broadway (Best) 17307/32845
Cleveland 16833/32845
Hobbayne 15757/32845
Turnham Green 15457/32845
Northfield 15131/32845
Walpole 13519/32845
Acton Central 11553/32845
South Acton 10264/32845
Ealing Common 9397/32845
Brentford (Worst) 7892/32845
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Your Health in Ealing

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Brent 1.38% 3.96%
Ealing (Ealing) 1.22% 3.79%
Hounslow 1.11% 3.58%
Hammersmith and Fulham 1.3% 3.58%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Turnham Green (Best) 26366/32845
Northfield 24361/32845
Walpole 23448/32845
Ealing Broadway 23057/32845
Cleveland 21877/32845
Ealing Common 21164/32845
Hobbayne 19268/32845
Brentford 17535/32845
Acton Central 17521/32845
South Acton (Worst) 15080/32845
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Deprivation in Ealing

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 Ealing. 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
Northfield (Best) 21634/32845
Turnham Green 20671/32845
Walpole 20237/32845
Ealing Broadway 19131/32845
Cleveland 16268/32845
Ealing Common 14540/32845
Hobbayne 13011/32845
Acton Central 12924/32845
Brentford 10521/32845
South Acton (Worst) 10049/32845

Average rent in Ealing

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Ealing

If you are thinking of moving to Ealing, 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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