Is Prettlewell, Essex a nice place to live?

Is Prettlewell a nice place to live or is Prettlewell rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Prettlewell 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 Prettlewell truly a nice place to live, or are Clackwell, Stanfield le Hope and Witham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Prettlewell?

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 Prettlewell. 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
Chipping Hill 71
Little Braxted 34
Blackwater 24
Boreham 9
Chelmer 9
Nounsley 5
Fairstead 2
Terling 2
Little Baddow 1
Faulkbourne 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Prettlewell. 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 Prettlewell 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 Wickham Bishops and Woodham ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Wickham Bishops and Woodham (Best) 25195/32845
Hatfield Peverel & Terling 24373/32845
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park 23233/32845
Boreham and The Leighs 20876/32845
Springfield North 19061/32845
Witham South 15964/32845
Trinity 14159/32845
Witham West 13845/32845
Witham Central 13801/32845
Witham North (Worst) 11859/32845
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Your Health in Prettlewell

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Colchester 0.96% 3.29%
Braintree (Prettlewell) 0.93% 3.43%
Chelmsford 0.81% 2.84%
Epping Forest 1.04% 3.56%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park (Best) 29553/32845
Wickham Bishops and Woodham 27302/32845
Boreham and The Leighs 27205/32845
Springfield North 27096/32845
Hatfield Peverel & Terling 23045/32845
Trinity 22899/32845
Witham South 19970/32845
Witham West 17528/32845
Witham Central 16656/32845
Witham North (Worst) 15919/32845

Deprivation in Prettlewell

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 Prettlewell. 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
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park (Best) 25490/32845
Springfield North 25455/32845
Wickham Bishops and Woodham 25245/32845
Trinity 23123/32845
Hatfield Peverel & Terling 23022/32845
Boreham and The Leighs 21160/32845
Witham South 20945/32845
Witham Central 18536/32845
Witham West 16212/32845
Witham North (Worst) 15570/32845

Average rent in Prettlewell

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Prettlewell

If you are thinking of moving to Prettlewell, 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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