Is Houghton le Spring a nice place to live or is Houghton le Spring rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Houghton le Spring 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 Houghton le Spring truly a nice place to live, or are Chester le Street, Hetton and Washington a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Houghton le Spring?
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 Houghton le Spring. 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 |
|---|---|
| Newbottle | 47 |
| Burnside | 41 |
| Grasswell | 41 |
| Hetton Downs | 38 |
| Rainton Bridge | 35 |
| Fence Houses | 27 |
| Stony Gate | 18 |
| Chilton Moor | 10 |
| High Dubmire | 10 |
| Colliery Row | 10 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Houghton le Spring. 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 Houghton le Spring and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Doxford (Best) | 22070/32845 |
| Washington East | 19206/32845 |
| Lumley | 17091/32845 |
| St Chad's | 14184/32845 |
| Copt Hill | 10661/32845 |
| Houghton | 10580/32845 |
| Shiney Row | 9715/32845 |
| Sherburn | 9554/32845 |
| Hetton | 9461/32845 |
| Sandhill (Worst) | 7989/32845 |
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Your Health in Houghton le Spring
If you are thinking of moving to Houghton le Spring, 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 Houghton le Spring 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 (Houghton le Spring) | 1.99% | 6.59% |
| South Tyneside | 1.91% | 6.34% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Houghton le Spring. 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 Houghton le Spring. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Doxford (Best) | 10791/32845 |
| Washington East | 9435/32845 |
| Lumley | 8844/32845 |
| Sherburn | 8575/32845 |
| Shiney Row | 8451/32845 |
| St Chad's | 8162/32845 |
| Houghton | 7947/32845 |
| Copt Hill | 6991/32845 |
| Hetton | 4608/32845 |
| Sandhill (Worst) | 3127/32845 |
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Deprivation in Houghton le Spring
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 Houghton le Spring. 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 |
|---|---|
| Doxford (Best) | 17140/32845 |
| Lumley | 16547/32845 |
| Washington East | 14786/32845 |
| Sherburn | 13591/32845 |
| Shiney Row | 13464/32845 |
| Houghton | 12320/32845 |
| St Chad's | 12248/32845 |
| Copt Hill | 10786/32845 |
| Hetton | 7508/32845 |
| Sandhill (Worst) | 5163/32845 |
Average rent in Houghton le Spring
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Houghton le Spring 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 Houghton le Spring.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Houghton le Spring
If you are thinking of moving to Houghton le Spring, 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.
