Is Nuneaton, Warwickshire a nice place to live?

Is Nuneaton a nice place to live or is Nuneaton rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Nuneaton 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 Nuneaton truly a nice place to live, or are Hinckley, Atherstone and Bedworth a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Nuneaton?

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 Nuneaton. 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
Nuneaton 139
Weddington 129
Camp Hill 111
St Nicolas Park 85
Stockingford 62
Attleborough 50
Chilvers Coton 42
Bermuda 23
Caldecote 16
Higham on the Hill 3

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Nuneaton. 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 Nuneaton 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 Weddington ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Weddington (Best) 23377/32845
St Nicolas 19750/32845
Arbury 17580/32845
Hartshill 15237/32845
Attleborough 12538/32845
Kingswood 7744/32845
Wem Brook 6565/32845
Bar Pool 5720/32845
Camp Hill 4249/32845
Abbey (Worst) 3922/32845
Reader Opinion:

Coventry - The Hellhole of Britain

Your Health in Nuneaton

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Coventry 1.4% 4.66%
Nuneaton and Bedworth (Nuneaton) 1.4% 4.81%
Hinckley and Bosworth 0.98% 3.63%
Rugby 0.97% 3.51%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Weddington (Best) 18699/32845
St Nicolas 17553/32845
Arbury 15210/32845
Hartshill 12777/32845
Attleborough 12221/32845
Bar Pool 10527/32845
Kingswood 9017/32845
Camp Hill 7791/32845
Abbey 7267/32845
Wem Brook (Worst) 7095/32845
Reader Opinion:

The cesspools of Nuneaton

Deprivation in Nuneaton

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 Nuneaton. 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
Weddington (Best) 26007/32845
St Nicolas 25460/32845
Arbury 17448/32845
Hartshill 16454/32845
Attleborough 12901/32845
Bar Pool 10082/32845
Kingswood 9510/32845
Abbey 6429/32845
Wem Brook 6176/32845
Camp Hill (Worst) 4946/32845

Average rent in Nuneaton

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Nuneaton

If you are thinking of moving to Nuneaton, 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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