So you are thinking of moving to Prudhoe in Northumberland? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Prudhoe is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Prudhoe the land of milk and honey or are Corbridge, Blaydon on tyne and Ryton a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Prudhoe
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Prudhoe. 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.
Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
---|---|
Crawcrook | 19 |
Greenside | 17 |
Chopwell | 16 |
Leadgate | 16 |
Clara Vale | 14 |
Coalburns | 4 |
Painshawfield | 2 |
Stocksfield | 2 |
High Mickley | 1 |
Horsley | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Prudhoe. These statitics 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 collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Prudhoe. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Chopwell and Rowlands Gill (Best) | 14405/32845 |
Leadgate and Medomsley | 15089/32845 |
Winlaton and High Spen | 16736/32845 |
Prudhoe South | 19120/32845 |
Ryton, Crookhill and Stella | 19298/32845 |
Crawcrook and Greenside | 20859/32845 |
Prudhoe North | 23727/32845 |
Bywell | 24223/32845 |
Stocksfield and Broomhaugh | 29558/32845 |
Ponteland South with Heddon (Worst) | 31196/32845 |
Your Health in Prudhoe
If you are thinking of moving to Prudhoe, 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 Prudhoe compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sunderland | 1.99% | 6.59% | 15.95% | 32.87% | 42.6% |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 1.55% | 5.28% | 13.57% | 31.8% | 47.8% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Prudhoe. 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 Prudhoe. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Ryton, Crookhill and Stella (Best) | 12676/32845 |
Crawcrook and Greenside | 12763/32845 |
Prudhoe South | 13687/32845 |
Prudhoe North | 16015/32845 |
Bywell | 20537/32845 |
Stocksfield and Broomhaugh | 21471/32845 |
Ponteland South with Heddon | 26952/32845 |
Chopwell and Rowlands Gill | 7712/32845 |
Winlaton and High Spen | 8234/32845 |
Leadgate and Medomsley (Worst) | 8844/32845 |
Deprivation in Prudhoe
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 Prudhoe. 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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Leadgate and Medomsley (Best) | 11904/32845 |
Chopwell and Rowlands Gill | 12259/32845 |
Winlaton and High Spen | 14047/32845 |
Prudhoe South | 16548/32845 |
Ryton, Crookhill and Stella | 19235/32845 |
Crawcrook and Greenside | 20144/32845 |
Prudhoe North | 20918/32845 |
Bywell | 23449/32845 |
Stocksfield and Broomhaugh | 26646/32845 |
Ponteland South with Heddon (Worst) | 31205/32845 |
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