Is Medlar with Wesham, Lancashire a nice place to live?

Is Medlar with Wesham a nice place to live or is Medlar with Wesham rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Medlar with Wesham 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 Medlar with Wesham truly a nice place to live, or are Kirkham, Poulton le Fylde and Wesham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Medlar with Wesham?

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 Medlar with Wesham. 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
Dowbridge 21
Moor Side 10
Corner Row 7
Bolton Houses 5
Lane Heads 2
Medlar 1
Esprick 1
Copp 1
Crossmoor 1
Greenhalgh 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Medlar with Wesham. 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 Medlar with Wesham 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 Ribby-with-Wrea ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Ribby-with-Wrea (Best) 30227/32845
Elswick and Little Eccleston 28290/32845
Newton and Treales 27452/32845
Freckleton West 25133/32845
Freckleton East 23857/32845
Warton and Westby 22283/32845
Breck 22119/32845
Kirkham North 21202/32845
Kirkham South 19117/32845
Medlar-with-Wesham (Worst) 17717/32845

Your Health in Medlar with Wesham

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Blackpool 2.2% 7.28%
Preston 1.32% 4.74%
Wyre 1.66% 5.52%
Fylde (Medlar with Wesham) 1.37% 4.87%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Ribby-with-Wrea (Best) 23457/32845
Newton and Treales 18218/32845
Kirkham North 18169/32845
Freckleton East 16331/32845
Elswick and Little Eccleston 12820/32845
Medlar-with-Wesham 12515/32845
Warton and Westby 12074/32845
Freckleton West 12069/32845
Breck 11807/32845
Kirkham South (Worst) 7759/32845

Deprivation in Medlar with Wesham

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 Medlar with Wesham. 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
Ribby-with-Wrea (Best) 31904/32845
Newton and Treales 24411/32845
Kirkham North 24177/32845
Elswick and Little Eccleston 22935/32845
Freckleton West 21896/32845
Freckleton East 20385/32845
Breck 20091/32845
Medlar-with-Wesham 18769/32845
Warton and Westby 16366/32845
Kirkham South (Worst) 15285/32845

Average rent in Medlar with Wesham

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Medlar with Wesham

If you are thinking of moving to Medlar with Wesham, 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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