Is Hayle, Cornwall a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Hayle?

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 Hayle. 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
High Lanes 0
Copperhouse 0
Foundry 0
Joppa 0
Angarrack 0
Chenhalls 0
Longstone 0
Connor Downs 0
Calloose 0
Canonstown 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hayle. 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 Hayle 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 Lelant and Carbis Bay ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Lelant and Carbis Bay (Best) 31543/32845
Ludgvan 26962/32845
Marazion and Perranuthnoe 26019/32845
St Ives West 24431/32845
Hayle South 22948/32845
Hayle North 22801/32845
Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth 22145/32845
St Ives East 20504/32845
Camborne Pendarves 14672/32845
Camborne Trelowarren (Worst) 9139/32845

Your Health in Hayle

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Cornwall (Hayle) 1.43% 4.87%
Plymouth 1.44% 5.08%
South Hams 1.11% 3.8%
Isles of Scilly 0.59% 2.41%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Lelant and Carbis Bay (Best) 20360/32845
Marazion and Perranuthnoe 18822/32845
Hayle North 18619/32845
Ludgvan 16371/32845
Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth 16162/32845
St Ives West 15816/32845
Hayle South 15368/32845
St Ives East 14629/32845
Camborne Pendarves 6340/32845
Camborne Trelowarren (Worst) 6152/32845

Deprivation in Hayle

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 Hayle. 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
Lelant and Carbis Bay (Best) 18839/32845
St Ives East 16621/32845
Hayle South 14083/32845
Hayle North 13469/32845
St Ives West 13167/32845
Marazion and Perranuthnoe 11481/32845
Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth 10918/32845
Ludgvan 10113/32845
Camborne Pendarves 7073/32845
Camborne Trelowarren (Worst) 6329/32845

Average rent in Hayle

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Hayle

If you are thinking of moving to Hayle, 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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