Is Frinton on Sea, Essex a nice place to live?

Is Frinton on Sea a nice place to live or is Frinton on Sea rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Frinton on Sea 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 Frinton on Sea truly a nice place to live, or are Holland on Sea, Thorpe Bay and Walton on the Naze a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Frinton on Sea?

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 Frinton on Sea. 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
Great Clacton 217
Clacton-on-Sea 193
Burrsville Park 76
Cook’s Green 34
Walton-on-the-Naze 27
Holland-on-Sea 19
Frinton-On-Sea 12
Little Clacton 5
Beaumont-cum-Moze 0
Great Holland 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Frinton on Sea. 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 Frinton on Sea 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 Kirby-le-Soken & Hamford ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Kirby-le-Soken & Hamford (Best) 26225/32845
Kirby Cross 24994/32845
St Bartholomew's 24206/32845
Frinton 23983/32845
Little Clacton 22509/32845
Homelands 22274/32845
Burrsville 16169/32845
Eastcliff 15342/32845
Walton 11898/32845
St John's (Worst) 9163/32845
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Your Health in Frinton on Sea

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Tendring (Frinton on Sea) 1.78% 5.83%
Colchester 0.96% 3.29%
Ipswich 1.14% 3.92%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Kirby Cross (Best) 12909/32845
Kirby-le-Soken & Hamford 11665/32845
Frinton 10611/32845
Little Clacton 9165/32845
St Bartholomew's 8144/32845
Homelands 7377/32845
Burrsville 7225/32845
Eastcliff 6328/32845
Walton 5191/32845
St John's (Worst) 4822/32845

Deprivation in Frinton on Sea

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 Frinton on Sea. 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
Frinton (Best) 16643/32845
Kirby-le-Soken & Hamford 16410/32845
Kirby Cross 15951/32845
St Bartholomew's 13051/32845
Little Clacton 12196/32845
Eastcliff 10418/32845
Burrsville 9134/32845
Homelands 9071/32845
Walton 5727/32845
St John's (Worst) 5330/32845

Average rent in Frinton on Sea

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Frinton on Sea

If you are thinking of moving to Frinton on Sea, 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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