Is Saltash, Cornwall a nice place to live?

Is Saltash a nice place to live or is Saltash rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Saltash 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 Saltash truly a nice place to live, or are Torpoint, Plymouth and Sherford a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Saltash?

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 Saltash. 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
South Pill 0
Wearde 0
Saltash 0
Barne Barton 0
Burraton 0
Landulph 0
Ernesettle 0
Burraton Coombe 0
Forder 0
Carkeel 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Saltash. 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 Saltash 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 Torpoint West ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Torpoint West (Best) 31330/32845
Saltash West 28246/32845
Saltash North 24189/32845
Peverell 22715/32845
Saltash South 22368/32845
Saltash East 19710/32845
Torpoint East 18102/32845
Ham 12497/32845
St Budeaux 10668/32845
Honicknowle (Worst) 8687/32845
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Your Health in Saltash

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Cornwall (Saltash) 1.43% 4.87%
Plymouth 1.44% 5.08%
South Hams 1.11% 3.8%
West Devon 1.18% 3.96%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Peverell (Best) 16570/32845
Saltash North 16559/32845
Saltash West 16370/32845
Torpoint West 14701/32845
Saltash East 12941/32845
Saltash South 12573/32845
Ham 5477/32845
Torpoint East 4994/32845
St Budeaux 3926/32845
Honicknowle (Worst) 3862/32845
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Deprivation in Saltash

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 Saltash. 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
Peverell (Best) 22274/32845
Saltash West 21130/32845
Torpoint West 21019/32845
Saltash North 19572/32845
Saltash South 16734/32845
Saltash East 14406/32845
Torpoint East 10371/32845
Ham 6359/32845
St Budeaux 6234/32845
Honicknowle (Worst) 4994/32845

Average rent in Saltash

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Saltash

If you are thinking of moving to Saltash, 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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