Is Grange over Sands, Cumbria a nice place to live?

Is Grange over Sands a nice place to live or is Grange over Sands rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Grange over Sands 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 Grange over Sands truly a nice place to live, or are Milnthorpe, Ulverston and Carnforth a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Grange over Sands?

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 Grange over Sands. 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
Grange-Over-Sands 4
Allithwaite 4
Holker 3
Cark 3
Eden Mount 2
Kents Bank 2
Meathop 0
Cartmel 0
Green Bank 0
Arnside 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Grange over Sands. 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 Grange over Sands 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 Burton & Crooklands ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Burton & Crooklands (Best) 31807/32845
Broughton & Coniston 31730/32845
Grange 31097/32845
Silverdale 30346/32845
Cartmel 29252/32845
Arnside & Milnthorpe 29227/32845
Bowness & Levens 27933/32845
Ulverston East 27462/32845
Carnforth & Millhead 22040/32845

Your Health in Grange over Sands

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Lancaster 1.3% 4.49%
Wyre 1.66% 5.52%
Barrow-in-Furness 1.8% 6.57%
South Lakeland (Grange over Sands) 0.96% 3.57%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Burton & Crooklands (Best) 27004/32845
Broughton & Coniston 26785/32845
Bowness & Levens 25975/32845
Silverdale 25221/32845
Cartmel 24889/32845
Arnside & Milnthorpe 24437/32845
Grange 21950/32845
Carnforth & Millhead 11151/32845
Ulverston East 10902/32845

Deprivation in Grange over Sands

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 Grange over Sands. 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
Silverdale (Best) 29093/32845
Burton & Crooklands 26964/32845
Grange 25492/32845
Arnside & Milnthorpe 24367/32845
Bowness & Levens 21005/32845
Cartmel 20695/32845
Broughton & Coniston 20024/32845
Carnforth & Millhead 17766/32845
Ulverston East 13731/32845

Average rent in Grange over Sands

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Grange over Sands

If you are thinking of moving to Grange over Sands, 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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