Is Peacehaven, East Sussex a nice place to live?

Is Peacehaven a nice place to live or is Peacehaven rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Peacehaven 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 Peacehaven truly a nice place to live, or are Newhaven, Seaford and Telscombe a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Peacehaven?

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 Peacehaven. 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
Newhaven 39
Peacehaven 28
South Heighton 27
Harbour Heights 23
Telscombe Cliffs 21
Telscombe 12
Saltdean 10
Tarring Neville 7
Peacehaven Heights 7
Southease 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Peacehaven. 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 Peacehaven 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 Seaford West ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Seaford West (Best) 31563/32845
Seaford North 27333/32845
East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs 25581/32845
Ouse Valley & Ringmer 25099/32845
Rottingdean Coastal 23654/32845
Peacehaven North 20857/32845
Peacehaven West 18883/32845
Peacehaven East 18835/32845
Newhaven North 16411/32845
Newhaven South (Worst) 12806/32845
Reader Opinion:

Newhaven - That Jewel in the Crown

Your Health in Peacehaven

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Brighton and Hove 1.2% 4.08%
Eastbourne 1.45% 4.74%
Wealden 0.96% 3.49%
Lewes (Peacehaven) 1.21% 4.17%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Seaford West (Best) 26458/32845
Ouse Valley & Ringmer 23164/32845
Rottingdean Coastal 22906/32845
East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs 21022/32845
Seaford North 20678/32845
Peacehaven North 17803/32845
Peacehaven East 16170/32845
Peacehaven West 13372/32845
Newhaven North 12790/32845
Newhaven South (Worst) 11675/32845

Deprivation in Peacehaven

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 Peacehaven. 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
Seaford West (Best) 25460/32845
Rottingdean Coastal 23160/32845
East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs 22626/32845
Ouse Valley & Ringmer 19602/32845
Seaford North 19270/32845
Peacehaven North 16516/32845
Peacehaven West 13580/32845
Peacehaven East 13459/32845
Newhaven North 11511/32845
Newhaven South (Worst) 9153/32845

Average rent in Peacehaven

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Peacehaven

If you are thinking of moving to Peacehaven, 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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