Is Hanley Grange, Cambridgeshire a nice place to live?

Is Hanley Grange a nice place to live or is Hanley Grange rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Hanley Grange 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 Hanley Grange truly a nice place to live, or are Chatteris, Northstowe and St Ives a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Hanley Grange?

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 Hanley Grange. 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
St Ives 17
Colnefields 12
Fenton 4
Fen Drayton 4
Colne 3
Bluntisham 2
Needingworth 1
Earith 1
Holywell 0
Ferry Hill 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hanley Grange. 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 Hanley Grange 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 Somersham ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Somersham (Best) 26401/32845
Haddenham 26294/32845
Holywell-cum-Needingworth 25633/32845
Hemingford Grey & Houghton 24533/32845
St Ives East 22573/32845
Fenstanton 22564/32845
St Ives South 21901/32845
Over & Willingham 21690/32845
Manea 19560/32845
St Ives West (Worst) 19535/32845
Reader Opinion:

Stoke-on-Trent a.k.a Joke-on-Trent

Your Health in Hanley Grange

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Huntingdonshire (Hanley Grange) 0.85% 3.09%
Fenland 1.36% 4.82%
South Cambridgeshire 0.7% 2.51%
Cambridge 0.78% 2.85%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Somersham (Best) 28701/32845
Over & Willingham 28692/32845
Hemingford Grey & Houghton 28577/32845
Haddenham 28453/32845
Holywell-cum-Needingworth 28405/32845
Fenstanton 26171/32845
St Ives West 25278/32845
St Ives South 24736/32845
St Ives East 23676/32845
Manea (Worst) 16480/32845
Reader Opinion:

Stoke On Trent - A place devoid of intelligence

Deprivation in Hanley Grange

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 Hanley Grange. 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
Holywell-cum-Needingworth (Best) 29977/32845
Somersham 27933/32845
Hemingford Grey & Houghton 27415/32845
Fenstanton 27335/32845
Over & Willingham 27224/32845
St Ives South 25408/32845
Haddenham 25063/32845
St Ives West 23802/32845
St Ives East 20885/32845
Manea (Worst) 16564/32845

Average rent in Hanley Grange

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Hanley Grange

If you are thinking of moving to Hanley Grange, 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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