Is Richmond, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Richmond a nice place to live or is Richmond rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Richmond 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 Richmond truly a nice place to live, or are Colburn, Leyburn and Middleham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Richmond?

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 Richmond. 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
Colburn 21
Walkerville 21
Brompton-on-Swale 21
Catterick Bridge 17
Easby 10
Holly Hill 10
Gilling West 1
Gayles 1
Tunstall 0
Uckerby 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Richmond. 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 Richmond 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 Richmond North ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Richmond North (Best) 32497/32845
Lower Swaledale & Arkengarthdale 32163/32845
Richmond East 32048/32845
Scotton 31759/32845
Catterick & Brompton-on-Swale 31314/32845
Gilling West 30225/32845
Hipswell 29453/32845
Richmond West 29252/32845
Croft & Middleton Tyas 27944/32845
Colburn (Worst) 21353/32845
Reader Opinion:

Twickenham conjures up idyllic walks by the thames, that is bollocks!

Your Health in Richmond

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Stockton-on-Tees 1.48% 4.85%
Darlington 1.36% 4.51%
Hambleton 0.97% 3.33%
Richmondshire (Richmond) 0.76% 2.93%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Gilling West (Best) 28717/32845
Croft & Middleton Tyas 26988/32845
Lower Swaledale & Arkengarthdale 26963/32845
Hipswell 25805/32845
Richmond North 25376/32845
Scotton 24286/32845
Catterick & Brompton-on-Swale 23369/32845
Richmond West 22017/32845
Richmond East 21922/32845
Colburn (Worst) 16377/32845
Reader Opinion:

Hounslow is looking pretty rough these days

Deprivation in Richmond

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 Richmond. 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
Richmond North (Best) 28025/32845
Richmond East 27270/32845
Catterick & Brompton-on-Swale 24793/32845
Hipswell 24015/32845
Croft & Middleton Tyas 23849/32845
Scotton 22764/32845
Richmond West 22094/32845
Gilling West 20248/32845
Colburn 16832/32845
Lower Swaledale & Arkengarthdale (Worst) 16546/32845

Average rent in Richmond

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Richmond

If you are thinking of moving to Richmond, 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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