Is Rainhill, Merseyside a nice place to live?

Is Rainhill a nice place to live or is Rainhill rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Rainhill 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 Rainhill truly a nice place to live, or are Prescot, St Helens and Whiston a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Rainhill?

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 Rainhill. 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
Portico 96
Holt 88
Grange Park 71
Nut Grove 67
Marshall’s Cross 59
Rainhill 55
Thatto Heath 52
Brown Edge 52
Lea Green 41
Rainhill Stoops 5

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Rainhill. 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 Rainhill 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 Farnworth ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Farnworth (Best) 24182/32845
Birchfield 22997/32845
Rainhill 22967/32845
Eccleston 21764/32845
Prescot South 15451/32845
Whiston and Cronton 14963/32845
Thatto Heath 10574/32845
Hough Green 9936/32845
Sutton 9635/32845
Bold (Worst) 8327/32845

Your Health in Rainhill

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Knowsley 2.18% 7.29%
St. Helens (Rainhill) 1.79% 6.48%
Warrington 1.17% 4.19%
Halton 1.7% 6.15%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Birchfield (Best) 20611/32845
Farnworth 14747/32845
Eccleston 9764/32845
Rainhill 7757/32845
Whiston and Cronton 5457/32845
Hough Green 4455/32845
Sutton 4226/32845
Thatto Heath 3717/32845
Prescot South 3689/32845
Bold (Worst) 3364/32845

Deprivation in Rainhill

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 Rainhill. 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
Birchfield (Best) 28983/32845
Farnworth 23690/32845
Eccleston 20469/32845
Rainhill 18311/32845
Whiston and Cronton 9532/32845
Hough Green 9347/32845
Sutton 9098/32845
Thatto Heath 8704/32845
Prescot South 8400/32845
Bold (Worst) 7019/32845

Average rent in Rainhill

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Rainhill

If you are thinking of moving to Rainhill, 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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