Is Long Sutton a nice place to live or is Long Sutton rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Long Sutton 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 Long Sutton truly a nice place to live, or are Wisbech, Holbeach and Spalding a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Long Sutton?
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 Long Sutton. 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 |
|---|---|
| Port Sutton Bridge | 9 |
| Long Sutton | 7 |
| Chapelgate | 5 |
| Tydd St. Mary | 4 |
| Gedney | 2 |
| Garnsgate | 1 |
| Gedney Dyke | 1 |
| Little Sutton | 0 |
| South Holland Main Drain | 0 |
| Black Barn | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Long Sutton. 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 Long Sutton and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Long Sutton (Best) | 29059/32845 |
| Holbeach Hurn | 29028/32845 |
| Terrington | 28697/32845 |
| Gedney | 28581/32845 |
| Fleet | 28016/32845 |
| Holbeach Town | 26876/32845 |
| The Saints | 24521/32845 |
| Sutton Bridge | 24094/32845 |
| Roman Bank | 16819/32845 |
| Waterlees Village (Worst) | 14801/32845 |
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Your Health in Long Sutton
If you are thinking of moving to Long Sutton, 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 Long Sutton compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Town | Very Bad | Bad |
|---|---|---|
| Peterborough | 1.13% | 4.04% |
| King`s Lynn and West Norfolk | 1.31% | 4.8% |
| South Holland (Long Sutton) | 1.38% | 4.72% |
| East Cambridgeshire | 0.85% | 3.12% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Long Sutton. 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 Long Sutton. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Holbeach Hurn (Best) | 17992/32845 |
| Holbeach Town | 17907/32845 |
| Fleet | 15546/32845 |
| The Saints | 15015/32845 |
| Gedney | 13777/32845 |
| Long Sutton | 11842/32845 |
| Sutton Bridge | 10409/32845 |
| Roman Bank | 8376/32845 |
| Terrington | 8317/32845 |
| Waterlees Village (Worst) | 4673/32845 |
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Deprivation in Long Sutton
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 Long Sutton. 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 |
|---|---|
| Holbeach Town (Best) | 16093/32845 |
| Long Sutton | 13915/32845 |
| Fleet | 12356/32845 |
| The Saints | 11733/32845 |
| Sutton Bridge | 10543/32845 |
| Terrington | 9721/32845 |
| Holbeach Hurn | 9233/32845 |
| Roman Bank | 9218/32845 |
| Gedney | 8061/32845 |
| Waterlees Village (Worst) | 5379/32845 |
Average rent in Long Sutton
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Long Sutton 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 Long Sutton.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Long Sutton
If you are thinking of moving to Long Sutton, 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.
