Is Hornsea, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Hornsea a nice place to live or is Hornsea rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Hornsea 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 Hornsea truly a nice place to live, or are Beverley, Bridlington and Hedon a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Hornsea?

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 Hornsea. 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
Hornsea 27
Hornsea Burton 17
Ulrome 5
Wassand 1
Sigglesthorne 1
South End 1
Little Catwick 1
Long Riston 1
Atwick 0
Dringhoe 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hornsea. 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 Hornsea 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 Beverley Rural ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Beverley Rural (Best) 30628/32845
East Wolds and Coastal 25466/32845
Mid Holderness 22288/32845
North Holderness 20633/32845
Minster and Woodmansey 20166/32845
South East Holderness 16021/32845
Kingswood 13380/32845
Ings 11696/32845
Longhill & Bilton Grange 7506/32845
North Carr (Worst) 5754/32845
Reader Opinion:

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Your Health in Hornsea

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

Town Very Bad Bad
East Riding of Yorkshire (Hornsea) 1.24% 4.15%
Kingston upon Hull, City of 1.61% 5.48%
East Lindsey 1.86% 6.36%
North East Lincolnshire 1.35% 4.7%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Beverley Rural (Best) 28146/32845
Minster and Woodmansey 22830/32845
Mid Holderness 22783/32845
East Wolds and Coastal 21767/32845
North Holderness 15721/32845
Kingswood 14241/32845
South East Holderness 13132/32845
Ings 8332/32845
Longhill & Bilton Grange 5296/32845
North Carr (Worst) 4851/32845
Reader Opinion:

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Deprivation in Hornsea

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 Hornsea. 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
Beverley Rural (Best) 27735/32845
Minster and Woodmansey 21219/32845
Kingswood 20460/32845
Mid Holderness 19337/32845
East Wolds and Coastal 18578/32845
North Holderness 14771/32845
Ings 10433/32845
South East Holderness 9752/32845
Longhill & Bilton Grange 5602/32845
North Carr (Worst) 5514/32845

Average rent in Hornsea

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Hornsea

If you are thinking of moving to Hornsea, 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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