Is Mansfield, Nottinghamshire a nice place to live?

Is Mansfield a nice place to live or is Mansfield rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Mansfield 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 Mansfield truly a nice place to live, or are Shirebrook, Kirkby in Ashfield and Sutton in Ashfield a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Mansfield?

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 Mansfield. 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
Mansfield 109
Mansfield Woodhouse 70
Ladybrook 66
Dalestorth 64
Forest Town 51
Newlands 23
Radmanthwaite 22
Moorhaigh 11
Pleasleyhill 11
Pleasley 8

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Mansfield. 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 Mansfield 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 Sandhurst ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Sandhurst (Best) 16456/32845
Sherwood 12543/32845
Broomhill 10617/32845
Abbott 10267/32845
Yeoman Hill 6488/32845
Woodlands 6003/32845
Ladybrook 5855/32845
Newgate 5790/32845
Portland 4601/32845
Carr Bank (Worst) 2640/32845
Reader Opinion:

Tooting... yikes!

Your Health in Mansfield

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Mansfield (Mansfield) 1.8% 6.2%
Ashfield 1.5% 5.66%
North East Derbyshire 1.52% 5.37%
Bolsover 1.83% 6.79%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Sandhurst (Best) 11537/32845
Yeoman Hill 7046/32845
Woodlands 6481/32845
Abbott 5900/32845
Newgate 5619/32845
Broomhill 5267/32845
Portland 5021/32845
Sherwood 4684/32845
Ladybrook 3546/32845
Carr Bank (Worst) 3180/32845
Reader Opinion:

Weybridge the wealthy town, but that’s just the council

Deprivation in Mansfield

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 Mansfield. 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
Sandhurst (Best) 19485/32845
Woodlands 10960/32845
Yeoman Hill 8573/32845
Abbott 8253/32845
Sherwood 7993/32845
Broomhill 7369/32845
Newgate 6616/32845
Portland 6271/32845
Ladybrook 4652/32845
Carr Bank (Worst) 2767/32845

Average rent in Mansfield

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Mansfield

If you are thinking of moving to Mansfield, 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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