Is Hetton, Tyne and Wear a nice place to live?

Is Hetton a nice place to live or is Hetton rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Hetton 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 Hetton truly a nice place to live, or are Chester le Street, Seaham and Houghton le Spring a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Hetton?

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 Hetton. 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
Burnside 41
Hetton-Le-Hole 41
Hetton Downs 38
Rainton Bridge 35
Easington Lane 29
Great Eppleton 28
South Hetton 13
Hetton-le-Hill 12
Rainton Gate 8
High Moorsley 6

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hetton. 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 Hetton 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 Lumley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Lumley (Best) 17091/32845
Belmont 16925/32845
Copt Hill 10661/32845
Houghton 10580/32845
Shiney Row 9715/32845
Sherburn 9554/32845
Hetton 9461/32845
Murton 6074/32845
Easington 6064/32845
Shotton and South Hetton (Worst) 5152/32845
Reader Opinion:

Blacon, Chester, where you can either take drugs, sell drugs or leave

Your Health in Hetton

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

Town Very Bad Bad
County Durham 1.82% 6.35%
Sunderland (Hetton) 1.99% 6.59%
South Tyneside 1.91% 6.34%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Belmont (Best) 10124/32845
Lumley 8844/32845
Sherburn 8575/32845
Shiney Row 8451/32845
Houghton 7947/32845
Copt Hill 6991/32845
Murton 6133/32845
Easington 5791/32845
Hetton 4608/32845
Shotton and South Hetton (Worst) 3120/32845
Reader Opinion:

Ellesmere Port is a toilet

Deprivation in Hetton

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 Hetton. 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
Belmont (Best) 17937/32845
Lumley 16547/32845
Sherburn 13591/32845
Shiney Row 13464/32845
Houghton 12320/32845
Copt Hill 10786/32845
Easington 9414/32845
Murton 9034/32845
Hetton 7508/32845
Shotton and South Hetton (Worst) 5661/32845

Average rent in Hetton

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Hetton

If you are thinking of moving to Hetton, 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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