So you are thinking of moving to East Ham in London? 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 East Ham 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 East Ham the land of milk and honey or are Barking, Ilford and West Ham a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in East Ham
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of July 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around East Ham. 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 |
|---|---|
| Plashet | 309 |
| Ilford | 293 |
| Little Ilford | 291 |
| Forest Gate | 275 |
| Manor Park | 244 |
| Barking | 220 |
| Fair Cross | 211 |
| Wallend | 209 |
| Plaistow | 200 |
| Beckton | 84 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for East Ham. 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 East Ham. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Manor Park (Best) | 10868/32845 |
| Boleyn | 11626/32845 |
| Green Street West | 12172/32845 |
| Wall End | 12724/32845 |
| Green Street East | 12884/32845 |
| Plaistow North | 13890/32845 |
| East Ham North | 14063/32845 |
| Abbey | 8389/32845 |
| East Ham Central | 8407/32845 |
| East Ham South (Worst) | 9914/32845 |
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Your Health in East Ham
If you are thinking of moving to East Ham, 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 East Ham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newham (East Ham) | 1.48% | 4.14% | 11.31% | 34.6% | 48.47% |
| Waltham Forest | 1.34% | 3.89% | 12.06% | 35.61% | 47.11% |
| Redbridge | 1.15% | 3.76% | 12% | 34.98% | 48.12% |
| Barking and Dagenham | 1.42% | 4.67% | 12.93% | 33.74% | 47.24% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for East Ham. 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 East Ham. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Plaistow North (Best) | 14488/32845 |
| East Ham South | 15259/32845 |
| Abbey | 15872/32845 |
| Manor Park | 15891/32845 |
| Green Street West | 16653/32845 |
| Wall End | 17459/32845 |
| Boleyn | 19670/32845 |
| Green Street East | 19940/32845 |
| East Ham Central | 21165/32845 |
| East Ham North (Worst) | 22683/32845 |
Deprivation in East Ham
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 East Ham. 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 |
|---|---|
| East Ham North (Best) | 10200/32845 |
| East Ham South | 7470/32845 |
| Abbey | 7725/32845 |
| Manor Park | 7933/32845 |
| Plaistow North | 7945/32845 |
| East Ham Central | 9006/32845 |
| Green Street West | 9146/32845 |
| Green Street East | 9386/32845 |
| Wall End | 9412/32845 |
| Boleyn (Worst) | 9449/32845 |
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