Is Grangetown, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Grangetown a nice place to live or is Grangetown rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Grangetown 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 Grangetown truly a nice place to live, or are Seaham, Houghton le Spring and Sunderland a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Grangetown?

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 Grangetown. 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
Monkwearmouth 194
Bishopwearmouth 194
Ayres Quay 193
Millfield 183
New Silksworth 75
Hendon 66
Ryhope Colliery 61
Tunstall 60
Ryhope 41
Grangetown 36

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Grangetown. 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 Grangetown 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 Doxford ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Doxford (Best) 22070/32845
St Chad's 14184/32845
Silksworth 12909/32845
St Peter's 12230/32845
Ryhope 10954/32845
Barnes 9425/32845
St Michael's 8162/32845
Pallion 7860/32845
Millfield 2852/32845
Hendon (Worst) 2362/32845
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Your Health in Grangetown

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

Town Very Bad Bad
County Durham 1.82% 6.35%
Sunderland (Grangetown) 1.99% 6.59%
South Tyneside 1.91% 6.34%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Doxford (Best) 10791/32845
St Peter's 9477/32845
St Michael's 8948/32845
Barnes 8887/32845
St Chad's 8162/32845
Silksworth 7847/32845
Millfield 6400/32845
Ryhope 5952/32845
Pallion 5306/32845
Hendon (Worst) 2940/32845
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Deprivation in Grangetown

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 Grangetown. 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
Doxford (Best) 17140/32845
St Peter's 16657/32845
St Michael's 13869/32845
Barnes 13813/32845
St Chad's 12248/32845
Silksworth 12006/32845
Ryhope 9909/32845
Millfield 9153/32845
Pallion 8013/32845
Hendon (Worst) 4524/32845

Average rent in Grangetown

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Grangetown

If you are thinking of moving to Grangetown, 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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