Is Little Benton, Tyne and Wear a nice place to live?

Is Little Benton a nice place to live or is Little Benton rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Little Benton 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 Little Benton truly a nice place to live, or are Darsley Park, Killingworth and Longbenton a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Little Benton?

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 Little Benton. 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
Wallsend 127
Heaton 104
Battle Hill 94
Forest Hall 58
Longbenton 56
Killingworth Moor 52
Killingworth Village 52
Killingworth 38
Palmersville 29
Burradon 26

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Little Benton. 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 Little Benton 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 Manor Park ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Manor Park (Best) 24062/32845
Dene & South Gosforth 23117/32845
Parklands 20011/32845
Camperdown 19401/32845
Killingworth 19119/32845
Longbenton 17214/32845
Northumberland 15565/32845
Benton 14642/32845
Battle Hill 14597/32845
Heaton (Worst) 12362/32845

Your Health in Little Benton

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Sunderland 1.99% 6.59%
Newcastle upon Tyne 1.55% 5.28%
North Tyneside (Little Benton) 1.5% 5.3%
South Tyneside 1.91% 6.34%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Dene & South Gosforth (Best) 20741/32845
Parklands 17979/32845
Manor Park 14570/32845
Killingworth 12869/32845
Northumberland 11912/32845
Benton 11519/32845
Camperdown 11224/32845
Battle Hill 11068/32845
Heaton 8506/32845
Longbenton (Worst) 7045/32845

Deprivation in Little Benton

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 Little Benton. 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
Dene & South Gosforth (Best) 28362/32845
Parklands 24212/32845
Manor Park 22204/32845
Heaton 19230/32845
Killingworth 18668/32845
Benton 16757/32845
Northumberland 16367/32845
Camperdown 15349/32845
Battle Hill 15247/32845
Longbenton (Worst) 12307/32845

Average rent in Little Benton

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Little Benton

If you are thinking of moving to Little Benton, 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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