Is Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire a nice place to live?

Is Mablethorpe a nice place to live or is Mablethorpe rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Mablethorpe 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 Mablethorpe truly a nice place to live, or are Alford, Louth and Mablethorpe and Sutton a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Mablethorpe?

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 Mablethorpe. 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
Trusthorpe 7
Sandilands 3
Bilsby 2
Saltfleet 2
Asserby Turn 2
Great Eau 2
Anderby Creek 0
Hannah 0
Gayton le Marsh 0
Saleby 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Mablethorpe. 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 Mablethorpe 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 Grimoldby ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Grimoldby (Best) 31908/32845
St Michael's 31275/32845
Withern & Theddlethorpe 27894/32845
Legbourne 25414/32845
Sutton on Sea 25364/32845
Alford 25125/32845
Willoughby with Sloothby 25112/32845
Chapel St Leonards 17739/32845
Mablethorpe 13820/32845
Ingoldmells (Worst) 511/32845
Reader Opinion:

Mablethorpe: Oldies ghost town

Your Health in Mablethorpe

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

Town Very Bad Bad
East Lindsey (Mablethorpe) 1.86% 6.36%
North East Lincolnshire 1.35% 4.7%
North Kesteven 1.14% 3.9%
Boston 1.24% 4.73%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Grimoldby (Best) 13146/32845
Withern & Theddlethorpe 12829/32845
Legbourne 12676/32845
Willoughby with Sloothby 12553/32845
Alford 10581/32845
St Michael's 7196/32845
Sutton on Sea 3971/32845
Ingoldmells 2979/32845
Chapel St Leonards 2251/32845
Mablethorpe (Worst) 1289/32845
Reader Opinion:

Epsom: the not-so-salubrious suburb

Deprivation in Mablethorpe

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 Mablethorpe. 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
Grimoldby (Best) 19009/32845
St Michael's 16939/32845
Legbourne 9591/32845
Alford 9121/32845
Willoughby with Sloothby 7938/32845
Withern & Theddlethorpe 7369/32845
Sutton on Sea 5106/32845
Chapel St Leonards 3107/32845
Ingoldmells 1829/32845
Mablethorpe (Worst) 1619/32845

Average rent in Mablethorpe

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Mablethorpe

If you are thinking of moving to Mablethorpe, 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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