Is Raunds, Northamptonshire a nice place to live?

Is Raunds a nice place to live or is Raunds rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Raunds 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 Raunds truly a nice place to live, or are Higham Ferrers, Irthlingborough and Thrapston a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Raunds?

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 Raunds. 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
Raunds 23
Nene 5
Little Addington 3
Caldecott 1
Chelveston 0
Great Addington 0
Hargrave 0
Keyston 0
Shelton 0
Bythorn 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Raunds. 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 Raunds 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 Stanwick ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Stanwick (Best) 25279/32845
Thrapston Lakes 23137/32845
Woodford 22425/32845
Raunds Saxon 21666/32845
Thrapston Market 20134/32845
Higham Ferrers Chichele 20118/32845
Raunds Windmill 18355/32845
Rushden Spencer 15445/32845
Irthlingborough Waterloo 13890/32845
Rushden Hayden (Worst) 13233/32845

Your Health in Raunds

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Bedford 0.98% 3.55%
Wellingborough 1.16% 3.95%
East Northamptonshire (Raunds) 0.97% 3.39%
Corby 1.36% 4.4%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Thrapston Lakes (Best) 27336/32845
Stanwick 26950/32845
Higham Ferrers Chichele 23318/32845
Thrapston Market 22217/32845
Raunds Saxon 21040/32845
Woodford 20815/32845
Irthlingborough Waterloo 18873/32845
Raunds Windmill 18391/32845
Rushden Spencer 17885/32845
Rushden Hayden (Worst) 14760/32845

Deprivation in Raunds

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 Raunds. 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
Stanwick (Best) 27903/32845
Higham Ferrers Chichele 26277/32845
Thrapston Lakes 25814/32845
Raunds Saxon 24485/32845
Thrapston Market 24197/32845
Raunds Windmill 20071/32845
Woodford 19541/32845
Rushden Spencer 16554/32845
Irthlingborough Waterloo 14650/32845
Rushden Hayden (Worst) 11697/32845

Average rent in Raunds

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Raunds

If you are thinking of moving to Raunds, 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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