Is Lutterworth, Leicestershire a nice place to live?

Is Lutterworth a nice place to live or is Lutterworth rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Lutterworth 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 Lutterworth truly a nice place to live, or are Earl Shilton, Hinckley and Rugby a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Lutterworth?

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 Lutterworth. 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
Bitteswell 15
Misterton 3
Dunton Bassett 3
Ashby Parva 2
Churchover 1
Ullesthorpe 1
Peatling Parva 1
Shawell 0
Ashby Magna 0
Little Walton 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Lutterworth. 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 Lutterworth 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 Bosworth ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Bosworth (Best) 29185/32845
Dunton 28077/32845
Broughton Astley South & Leire 27711/32845
Ullesthorpe 27604/32845
Coton and Boughton 23788/32845
Clifton, Newton and Churchover 23497/32845
Lutterworth West 23020/32845
Misterton 21234/32845
Lutterworth East 17745/32845
Yelvertoft (Worst) 16697/32845
Reader Opinion:

Coventry - Worse than ever

Your Health in Lutterworth

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Rugby 0.97% 3.51%
Daventry 0.91% 3.31%
Harborough (Lutterworth) 0.76% 2.75%
Oadby and Wigston 1.09% 3.71%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Misterton (Best) 32082/32845
Dunton 31705/32845
Bosworth 31539/32845
Broughton Astley South & Leire 31285/32845
Ullesthorpe 29787/32845
Lutterworth West 28864/32845
Lutterworth East 28824/32845
Yelvertoft 27646/32845
Clifton, Newton and Churchover 25237/32845
Coton and Boughton (Worst) 25066/32845
Reader Opinion:

Northampton, also known as 'Nofuntown'

Deprivation in Lutterworth

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 Lutterworth. 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
Broughton Astley South & Leire (Best) 30897/32845
Ullesthorpe 27389/32845
Coton and Boughton 26553/32845
Lutterworth West 26231/32845
Clifton, Newton and Churchover 25808/32845
Dunton 25232/32845
Lutterworth East 24456/32845
Bosworth 24012/32845
Yelvertoft 23910/32845
Misterton (Worst) 23093/32845

Average rent in Lutterworth

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Lutterworth

If you are thinking of moving to Lutterworth, 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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