Is Maryport, Cumbria a nice place to live?

Is Maryport a nice place to live or is Maryport rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Maryport 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 Maryport truly a nice place to live, or are Cockermouth, Harrington and Workington a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Maryport?

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 Maryport. 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
Maryport 37
Netherton 24
Ewanrigg 24
Birkby 18
Bank End 13
Fothergill 4
Harker Marsh 2
Broughton Moor 2
Moor Park 0
Crosby 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Maryport. 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 Maryport 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 Broughton St Bridgets ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Broughton St Bridgets (Best) 32692/32845
Dalton 32603/32845
Ellen & Gilcrux 29415/32845
Seaton & Northside 25584/32845
Stainburn & Clifton 24783/32845
Maryport South 15046/32845
St John's 14227/32845
Maryport North 13700/32845
Flimby 8809/32845
St Michael's (Worst) 7361/32845
Reader Opinion:

Workington is the armpit of Cumbria

Your Health in Maryport

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Carlisle 1.34% 4.62%
Allerdale (Maryport) 1.31% 4.94%
Copeland 1.5% 5.33%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Dalton (Best) 25735/32845
Broughton St Bridgets 20288/32845
Ellen & Gilcrux 18315/32845
Stainburn & Clifton 13181/32845
Seaton & Northside 12465/32845
St John's 11958/32845
Maryport North 10537/32845
Maryport South 8180/32845
Flimby 5919/32845
St Michael's (Worst) 4563/32845
Reader Opinion:

Maryport: The Anti-Social Landfill of Europe

Deprivation in Maryport

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 Maryport. 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 St Bridgets (Best) 22954/32845
Dalton 21286/32845
Stainburn & Clifton 19856/32845
Ellen & Gilcrux 18616/32845
Seaton & Northside 17363/32845
St John's 15959/32845
Maryport North 10088/32845
Maryport South 8296/32845
Flimby 6919/32845
St Michael's (Worst) 4474/32845

Average rent in Maryport

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Maryport

If you are thinking of moving to Maryport, 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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