Is Over Woodhouse, Derbyshire a nice place to live?

Is Over Woodhouse a nice place to live or is Over Woodhouse rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Over Woodhouse 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 Over Woodhouse truly a nice place to live, or are Belper, Heanor and Langley Mill a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Over Woodhouse?

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 Over Woodhouse. 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
Loscoe 53
Heanor Gate 15
Marehay 9
Rawson Green 6
Lower Kilburn 4
Holbrook Moor 4
Kilburn 3
Horsley Woodhouse 3
Horsley 3
Codnor Breach 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Over Woodhouse. 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 Over Woodhouse 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 Belper North ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Belper North (Best) 32038/32845
Heage and Ambergate 30731/32845
Belper South 29569/32845
Kilburn, Denby and Holbrook 29169/32845
Belper Central 28956/32845
Belper East 28603/32845
Shipley Park, Horsley and Horsley Woodhouse 25365/32845
Heanor and Loscoe 23958/32845
Heanor East 20069/32845
Heanor West (Worst) 15450/32845
Reader Opinion:

Heanor the land where chavy teens rule.

Your Health in Over Woodhouse

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Ashfield 1.5% 5.66%
Amber Valley (Over Woodhouse) 1.26% 4.75%
Erewash 1.28% 4.35%
Broxtowe 1.14% 4.13%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Heage and Ambergate (Best) 20690/32845
Belper North 19825/32845
Belper East 19647/32845
Kilburn, Denby and Holbrook 19266/32845
Belper South 18441/32845
Shipley Park, Horsley and Horsley Woodhouse 16930/32845
Belper Central 14520/32845
Heanor and Loscoe 13650/32845
Heanor East 11955/32845
Heanor West (Worst) 9754/32845
Reader Opinion:

Keighley a.k.a K-towwwwn

Deprivation in Over Woodhouse

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 Over Woodhouse. 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
Belper East (Best) 26133/32845
Belper North 25335/32845
Kilburn, Denby and Holbrook 22842/32845
Belper Central 21225/32845
Heage and Ambergate 20694/32845
Shipley Park, Horsley and Horsley Woodhouse 20021/32845
Belper South 18998/32845
Heanor and Loscoe 14520/32845
Heanor East 14518/32845
Heanor West (Worst) 12333/32845

Average rent in Over Woodhouse

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Over Woodhouse

If you are thinking of moving to Over Woodhouse, 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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