Is Heathfield, East Sussex a nice place to live?

Is Heathfield a nice place to live or is Heathfield rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Heathfield 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 Heathfield truly a nice place to live, or are Crowborough, Uckfield and Wadhurst a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Heathfield?

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 Heathfield. 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
Maynard’s Green 10
Little London 9
Heathfield 6
Broad Oak 4
Tilsmore 3
Mayfield 1
Cross in Hand 1
Beacon Down 1
Warbleton 0
Chapman’s Town 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Heathfield. 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 Heathfield 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 Mayfield & Five Ashes ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Mayfield & Five Ashes (Best) 31318/32845
Heathfield South 28689/32845
Horam & Punnetts Town 28098/32845
Crowborough South East 27894/32845
Hadlow Down & Rotherfield 27595/32845
Heathfield North 26469/32845
Crowborough Jarvis Brook 26207/32845
Framfield & Cross-in-Hand 26197/32845
Catsfield & Crowhurst 26143/32845
Uckfield North (Worst) 24644/32845
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Your Health in Heathfield

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Eastbourne 1.45% 4.74%
Wealden (Heathfield) 0.96% 3.49%
Rother 1.41% 4.93%
Tunbridge Wells 0.78% 3.09%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Hadlow Down & Rotherfield (Best) 30905/32845
Mayfield & Five Ashes 30327/32845
Heathfield South 29843/32845
Crowborough South East 28938/32845
Framfield & Cross-in-Hand 28852/32845
Crowborough Jarvis Brook 28510/32845
Horam & Punnetts Town 28224/32845
Heathfield North 27839/32845
Uckfield North 25071/32845
Catsfield & Crowhurst (Worst) 21074/32845
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Deprivation in Heathfield

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 Heathfield. 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
Hadlow Down & Rotherfield (Best) 26398/32845
Crowborough Jarvis Brook 25801/32845
Heathfield South 25453/32845
Crowborough South East 25323/32845
Mayfield & Five Ashes 24910/32845
Heathfield North 24230/32845
Uckfield North 21920/32845
Framfield & Cross-in-Hand 21381/32845
Horam & Punnetts Town 20055/32845
Catsfield & Crowhurst (Worst) 13794/32845

Average rent in Heathfield

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Heathfield

If you are thinking of moving to Heathfield, 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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