Is Norwich, Norfolk a nice place to live?

Is Norwich a nice place to live or is Norwich rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Norwich 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 Norwich truly a nice place to live, or are Rackheath, Thorpe St Andrew and Wroxham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Norwich?

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 Norwich. 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
New Catton 247
Norwich 242
Lakenham 146
New Sprowston 108
Mile Cross 107
Sprowston 75
Earlham 66
Old Catton 64
Long John’s Hill 59
Eaton 15

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Norwich. 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 Norwich 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 Eaton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Eaton (Best) 24752/32845
Nelson 17379/32845
Town Close 17126/32845
Lakenham 14697/32845
University 11431/32845
Sewell 10274/32845
Thorpe Hamlet 9041/32845
Wensum 7572/32845
Mancroft 6152/32845
Mile Cross (Worst) 5491/32845
Reader Opinion:

Dereham - More like Drearam. Stay away if you're not a local

Your Health in Norwich

If you are thinking of moving to Norwich, 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 Norwich 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 (Norwich) 1.24% 4.42%
Great Yarmouth 1.63% 5.48%
North Norfolk 1.39% 4.77%
Broadland 1.08% 3.61%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Eaton (Best) 19050/32845
Town Close 13551/32845
Nelson 12715/32845
Thorpe Hamlet 7371/32845
Sewell 7312/32845
University 6885/32845
Lakenham 5039/32845
Wensum 4724/32845
Mile Cross 3736/32845
Mancroft (Worst) 2834/32845
Reader Opinion:

Watton - Most Boring Town Ever

Deprivation in Norwich

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 Norwich. 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
Eaton (Best) 26705/32845
Town Close 20121/32845
Nelson 19997/32845
Thorpe Hamlet 12422/32845
Sewell 11447/32845
University 10506/32845
Lakenham 8362/32845
Wensum 6782/32845
Mancroft 6413/32845
Mile Cross (Worst) 4687/32845

Average rent in Norwich

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Norwich

If you are thinking of moving to Norwich, 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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