Is Ilford, London a nice place to live?

Is Ilford a nice place to live or is Ilford rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Ilford 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 Ilford truly a nice place to live, or are Barking, Dagenham and East Ham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Ilford?

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 Ilford. 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
Little Ilford 320
Ilford 271
Manor Park 256
Barking 241
Fair Cross 225
Newbury Park 214
Goodmayes 184
Aldborough Hatch 147
Cranbrook 126
Barkingside 126

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Ilford. 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 Ilford 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 Newbury ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Newbury (Best) 16175/32845
East Ham North 14063/32845
Little Ilford 11624/32845
Cranbrook 11612/32845
Mayfield 10492/32845
Valentines 10396/32845
Loxford 9683/32845
Clementswood 9194/32845
Goodmayes 7790/32845
Ilford Town (Worst) 5800/32845
Reader Opinion:

East Ham

Your Health in Ilford

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Newham 1.48% 4.14%
Waltham Forest 1.34% 3.89%
Redbridge (Ilford) 1.15% 3.76%
Barking and Dagenham 1.42% 4.67%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Mayfield (Best) 27677/32845
Cranbrook 27632/32845
Newbury 27486/32845
Valentines 25164/32845
Goodmayes 23663/32845
Clementswood 23208/32845
East Ham North 22683/32845
Ilford Town 22257/32845
Loxford 20137/32845
Little Ilford (Worst) 17295/32845
Reader Opinion:

Dagenham, Halfway To Hell

Deprivation in Ilford

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 Ilford. 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
Cranbrook (Best) 18356/32845
Newbury 17915/32845
Mayfield 17121/32845
Valentines 15415/32845
Goodmayes 13827/32845
Clementswood 11535/32845
Ilford Town 10583/32845
East Ham North 10200/32845
Loxford 9136/32845
Little Ilford (Worst) 7626/32845

Average rent in Ilford

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Ilford

If you are thinking of moving to Ilford, 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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