Is East Retford, Nottinghamshire a nice place to live?

Is East Retford a nice place to live or is East Retford rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that East Retford 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 East Retford truly a nice place to live, or are Bracebridge, Kilton and Retford a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in East Retford?

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 East Retford. 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
Retford 39
Balk Field 35
Bolham 34
Idle 32
Babworth 10
Eaton 2
Clarborough 2
Barnby Moor 1
Ranby 0
Nether Headon 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for East Retford. 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 East Retford 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 Sturton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Sturton (Best) 30480/32845
Rampton 23037/32845
East Retford North 21369/32845
East Retford East 20592/32845
East Markham 19397/32845
Worksop East 16415/32845
East Retford South 13704/32845
East Retford West 12153/32845
Welbeck 8605/32845
Sutton (Worst) 4405/32845
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Your Health in East Retford

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Rotherham 1.72% 5.87%
Mansfield 1.8% 6.2%
Bassetlaw (East Retford) 1.5% 5.24%
Newark and Sherwood 1.32% 4.57%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Sturton (Best) 22948/32845
East Markham 19086/32845
East Retford West 13074/32845
East Retford East 11990/32845
East Retford North 10542/32845
Sutton 9693/32845
East Retford South 9600/32845
Worksop East 8225/32845
Welbeck 7460/32845
Rampton (Worst) 7000/32845

Deprivation in East Retford

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 Retford. 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
Sturton (Best) 25959/32845
East Markham 20200/32845
East Retford East 15322/32845
East Retford West 15289/32845
East Retford North 15139/32845
East Retford South 13421/32845
Worksop East 12210/32845
Sutton 11760/32845
Welbeck 8236/32845
Rampton (Worst) 6428/32845

Average rent in East Retford

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in East Retford

If you are thinking of moving to East Retford, 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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