Is Hartlepool, Durham a nice place to live?

Is Hartlepool a nice place to live or is Hartlepool rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Hartlepool 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 Hartlepool truly a nice place to live, or are Billingham, Peterlee and Stockton on Tees a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Hartlepool?

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 Hartlepool. 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
Hartlepool 200
Hart Station 20
Blackhall Rocks 19
Crimdon Park 7
Brierton 6
Greatham 6
Hart 5
Monk Hesleden 1
Elwick 1
Dalton Piercy 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hartlepool. 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 Hartlepool 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 Hart ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Hart (Best) 20674/32845
Fens and Rossmere 15031/32845
Seaton 14700/32845
De Bruce 12459/32845
Manor House 9154/32845
Jesmond 7178/32845
Headland and Harbour 5135/32845
Foggy Furze 4939/32845
Burn Valley 4746/32845
Victoria (Worst) 3392/32845
Reader Opinion:

Hartlepool (Narrr like i'm goin oot on the rob)

Your Health in Hartlepool

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Stockton-on-Tees 1.48% 4.85%
Middlesbrough 1.84% 5.78%
Redcar and Cleveland 1.79% 6.05%
Hartlepool (Hartlepool) 1.85% 6.29%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Hart (Best) 15673/32845
De Bruce 8953/32845
Fens and Rossmere 7398/32845
Jesmond 7373/32845
Foggy Furze 6722/32845
Seaton 6462/32845
Manor House 6357/32845
Burn Valley 5045/32845
Victoria 3910/32845
Headland and Harbour (Worst) 2047/32845
Reader Opinion:

Middlesbrough, If one town deserves...nay, pleads to be wiped from existence, this sh*tehole is it

Deprivation in Hartlepool

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 Hartlepool. 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
Hart (Best) 23857/32845
Seaton 12023/32845
De Bruce 11675/32845
Fens and Rossmere 11057/32845
Jesmond 9747/32845
Foggy Furze 9458/32845
Manor House 8174/32845
Burn Valley 7453/32845
Victoria 5660/32845
Headland and Harbour (Worst) 2297/32845

Average rent in Hartlepool

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Hartlepool

If you are thinking of moving to Hartlepool, 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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