Is North Walsham, Norfolk a nice place to live?

Is North Walsham a nice place to live or is North Walsham rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that North Walsham 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 North Walsham truly a nice place to live, or are Aylsham, Stalham and Wroxham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in North Walsham?

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 North Walsham. 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
North Walsham 25
Spa Common 25
Trunch 1
Tungate 1
Paston Green 1
Felmingham 1
Knapton 0
Honing 0
Bengate 0
Briggate 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for North Walsham. 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 North Walsham 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 Poppyland ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Poppyland (Best) 32335/32845
Worstead 31600/32845
Roughton 30266/32845
Bacton 29970/32845
North Walsham West 28770/32845
Mundesley 27726/32845
North Walsham East 26911/32845
North Walsham Market Cross 25610/32845
Buxton 24429/32845

Your Health in North Walsham

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Norwich 1.24% 4.42%
Great Yarmouth 1.63% 5.48%
North Norfolk (North Walsham) 1.39% 4.77%
Broadland 1.08% 3.61%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Buxton (Best) 23974/32845
Roughton 21669/32845
Poppyland 18861/32845
Worstead 18211/32845
Bacton 14369/32845
North Walsham West 13618/32845
North Walsham Market Cross 13528/32845
North Walsham East 12361/32845
Mundesley 9317/32845

Deprivation in North Walsham

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 North Walsham. 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
Buxton (Best) 21295/32845
North Walsham West 15362/32845
North Walsham East 14956/32845
North Walsham Market Cross 14652/32845
Worstead 14137/32845
Roughton 14039/32845
Poppyland 11959/32845
Mundesley 11641/32845
Bacton 9422/32845

Average rent in North Walsham

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in North Walsham

If you are thinking of moving to North Walsham, 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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