Is Polegate a nice place to live or is Polegate rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Polegate 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 Polegate truly a nice place to live, or are Brighton, Eastbourne and Hailsham a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Polegate?
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 Polegate. 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 |
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Langney | 97 |
Hampden Park | 69 |
Hailsham | 39 |
Polegate | 25 |
Mill Hill | 20 |
Hankham | 17 |
Foulride Green | 9 |
Wannock | 4 |
Arlington | 0 |
Arlington Reservoir | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Polegate. 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 Polegate and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Upper Willingdon (Best) | 26210/32845 |
Lower Willingdon | 24990/32845 |
Stone Cross | 24791/32845 |
Hailsham South | 23751/32845 |
Hailsham Central | 23552/32845 |
Polegate North | 22960/32845 |
Polegate South & Willingdon Watermill | 22413/32845 |
Polegate Central | 22132/32845 |
Hailsham East | 19573/32845 |
Hampden Park (Worst) | 14165/32845 |
Portslade... twinned with Mordor
Your Health in Polegate
If you are thinking of moving to Polegate, 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 Polegate compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
Town | Very Bad | Bad |
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Eastbourne | 1.45% | 4.74% |
Wealden (Polegate) | 0.96% | 3.49% |
Rother | 1.41% | 4.93% |
Lewes | 1.21% | 4.17% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Polegate. 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 Polegate. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Stone Cross (Best) | 29578/32845 |
Polegate Central | 28733/32845 |
Upper Willingdon | 25334/32845 |
Lower Willingdon | 24208/32845 |
Polegate North | 22400/32845 |
Hailsham Central | 21694/32845 |
Polegate South & Willingdon Watermill | 21642/32845 |
Hailsham East | 17060/32845 |
Hailsham South | 16921/32845 |
Hampden Park (Worst) | 9663/32845 |
Sidley: a dingleberry on Bexhill's backside
Deprivation in Polegate
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 Polegate. 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 |
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Stone Cross (Best) | 29016/32845 |
Upper Willingdon | 26117/32845 |
Polegate Central | 25531/32845 |
Lower Willingdon | 24482/32845 |
Hailsham Central | 21380/32845 |
Polegate South & Willingdon Watermill | 18590/32845 |
Polegate North | 17675/32845 |
Hailsham South | 15369/32845 |
Hailsham East | 12178/32845 |
Hampden Park (Worst) | 8261/32845 |
Average rent in Polegate
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Polegate 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 Polegate.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Polegate
If you are thinking of moving to Polegate, 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.