So you are thinking of moving to Halstead in Essex? 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 Halstead 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 Halstead the land of milk and honey or are Braintree, Coggeshall and Sudbury a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Halstead
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Halstead. 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 |
|---|---|
| Halstead | 31 |
| Colne Engaine | 12 |
| Bunting’s Green | 12 |
| Boose’s Green | 5 |
| Great Maplestead | 3 |
| Gosfield | 1 |
| Greenstead Green | 0 |
| Don Johns | 0 |
| Plaistow Green | 0 |
| Little Maplestead | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Halstead. 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 Halstead. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Bocking South (Best) | 13342/32845 |
| Braintree Central & Beckers Green | 13430/32845 |
| Bocking North | 15607/32845 |
| Halstead Trinity | 17459/32845 |
| Halstead St Andrew's | 21569/32845 |
| Bocking Blackwater | 21608/32845 |
| Coggeshall | 22361/32845 |
| Gosfield & Greenstead Green | 24297/32845 |
| Hedingham | 26518/32845 |
| The Colnes (Worst) | 28440/32845 |
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Your Health in Halstead
If you are thinking of moving to Halstead, 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 Halstead 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colchester | 0.96% | 3.29% | 12.09% | 34.83% | 48.83% |
| Braintree (Halstead) | 0.93% | 3.43% | 12.44% | 35.69% | 47.51% |
| Chelmsford | 0.81% | 2.84% | 11.44% | 34.72% | 50.19% |
| Babergh | 0.89% | 3.45% | 13.25% | 35.83% | 46.59% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Halstead. 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 Halstead. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Braintree Central & Beckers Green (Best) | 15723/32845 |
| Bocking North | 16836/32845 |
| Bocking South | 16865/32845 |
| Halstead Trinity | 18474/32845 |
| Halstead St Andrew's | 20480/32845 |
| Bocking Blackwater | 22665/32845 |
| The Colnes | 24315/32845 |
| Coggeshall | 25162/32845 |
| Gosfield & Greenstead Green | 25786/32845 |
| Hedingham (Worst) | 26124/32845 |
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Deprivation in Halstead
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 Halstead. 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 |
|---|---|
| Braintree Central & Beckers Green (Best) | 14034/32845 |
| Bocking North | 14330/32845 |
| Bocking South | 15078/32845 |
| Halstead Trinity | 18370/32845 |
| Halstead St Andrew's | 21182/32845 |
| Gosfield & Greenstead Green | 21293/32845 |
| Hedingham | 21609/32845 |
| Coggeshall | 22538/32845 |
| The Colnes | 23040/32845 |
| Bocking Blackwater (Worst) | 24664/32845 |
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