Is Leyland, Lancashire a nice place to live?

Is Leyland a nice place to live or is Leyland rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Leyland 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 Leyland truly a nice place to live, or are Chorley, Penwortham and Preston a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Leyland?

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 Leyland. 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
Earnshaw Bridge 81
Cuerden Green 30
Lostock Hall 20
Farington 17
Euxton 14
Tardy Gate 12
Cocker Bar 11
Farington Moss 11
Shaw Green 4
Runshaw Moor 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Leyland. 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 Leyland 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 Euxton North ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Euxton North (Best) 25780/32845
Buckshaw & Worden 24008/32845
Farington West 23883/32845
Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden 20942/32845
Farington East 19148/32845
St Ambrose 17500/32845
Earnshaw Bridge 17117/32845
Leyland Central 16831/32845
Broadfield 12385/32845
Seven Stars (Worst) 10953/32845
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Your Health in Leyland

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Blackburn with Darwen 1.58% 5.71%
Preston 1.32% 4.74%
Chorley 1.22% 4.31%
South Ribble (Leyland) 1.03% 4.1%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Buckshaw & Worden (Best) 18091/32845
Euxton North 15496/32845
Leyland Central 15032/32845
Farington West 15000/32845
St Ambrose 14206/32845
Farington East 14145/32845
Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden 12167/32845
Earnshaw Bridge 10511/32845
Broadfield 8567/32845
Seven Stars (Worst) 6599/32845
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Deprivation in Leyland

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 Leyland. 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
Euxton North (Best) 24469/32845
Farington West 21781/32845
Buckshaw & Worden 21713/32845
Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden 19591/32845
Leyland Central 18495/32845
St Ambrose 17657/32845
Farington East 17154/32845
Earnshaw Bridge 14910/32845
Broadfield 11407/32845
Seven Stars (Worst) 9360/32845

Average rent in Leyland

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Leyland

If you are thinking of moving to Leyland, 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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