So you are thinking of moving to Hexham in Northumberland? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Hexham is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Hexham the land of milk and honey or are Consett, Corbridge and Prudhoe a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Hexham
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Hexham. 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.
Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
---|---|
Bridge End | 18 |
Hexham | 15 |
Oakwood | 12 |
Anick | 8 |
Acomb | 0 |
Sandhoe | 0 |
Dye House | 0 |
Fourstones | 0 |
Nether Warden | 0 |
Wall | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hexham. These statitics 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 collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Hexham. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
---|---|
Weardale (Best) | 18125/32845 |
Prudhoe South | 19120/32845 |
Hexham East | 19722/32845 |
Hexham Central with Acomb | 22550/32845 |
Prudhoe North | 23727/32845 |
Bywell | 24223/32845 |
Hexham West | 24993/32845 |
Stocksfield and Broomhaugh | 29558/32845 |
Corbridge | 30233/32845 |
Humshaugh (Worst) | 30504/32845 |
Consett, the inbred pissy-mattress furnished capital of the North
Your Health in Hexham
If you are thinking of moving to Hexham, 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 Hexham compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Newcastle upon Tyne | 1.55% | 5.28% | 13.57% | 31.8% | 47.8% |
North Tyneside | 1.5% | 5.3% | 15.02% | 33.34% | 44.84% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Hexham. 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 Hexham. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Weardale (Best) | 10322/32845 |
Prudhoe South | 13687/32845 |
Hexham East | 15750/32845 |
Prudhoe North | 16015/32845 |
Hexham Central with Acomb | 18664/32845 |
Hexham West | 19384/32845 |
Bywell | 20537/32845 |
Stocksfield and Broomhaugh | 21471/32845 |
Corbridge | 22508/32845 |
Humshaugh (Worst) | 23043/32845 |
Deprivation in Hexham
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 Hexham. 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 |
---|---|
Weardale (Best) | 13801/32845 |
Prudhoe South | 16548/32845 |
Hexham East | 19605/32845 |
Humshaugh | 19950/32845 |
Prudhoe North | 20918/32845 |
Hexham Central with Acomb | 22749/32845 |
Bywell | 23449/32845 |
Hexham West | 23813/32845 |
Stocksfield and Broomhaugh | 26646/32845 |
Corbridge (Worst) | 26694/32845 |
Ashington is now a necrotic ulcer on the nether regions of the North East
A Depressing Lifetime in Ashington, Northumberland
Newbiggin-By-The-Sea full of mullet, snapback, tracky bottom wearing idiots
Amble: the population of 6,022 is now almost entirely related
Wooler: in the morning it’s a lovely rural town, by midday it changes
Seahouses: they hide the ****** so you see what they want you to see
Blyth, still the **** capital of Northumberland…..but now with a KFC
Morpeth: Is it really as posh as the posters make it look? No!
Ashington is by far the ********* town in Northumberland