Is Sandiacre, Derbyshire a nice place to live?

Is Sandiacre a nice place to live or is Sandiacre rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Sandiacre 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 Sandiacre truly a nice place to live, or are Ilkeston, Long Eaton and Stapleford a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Sandiacre?

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 Sandiacre. 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
Long Eaton 69
Little Hallam 52
Toton 49
Sandiacre 46
New Stanton 24
Breaston 21
Chilwell 17
Hallam Fields 10
Dale Abbey 0
Dale Moor 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Sandiacre. 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 Sandiacre 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 Breaston ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Breaston (Best) 26911/32845
Toton & Chilwell Meadows 25414/32845
Derby Road West 24062/32845
Long Eaton Central 21646/32845
Chilwell West 21589/32845
Sandiacre 20770/32845
Derby Road East 19534/32845
Stapleford South East 17426/32845
Stapleford South West 11398/32845
Stapleford North (Worst) 9355/32845
Reader Opinion:

Ilkeston: The perineum of the east midlands

Your Health in Sandiacre

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Nottingham 1.53% 4.93%
Erewash (Sandiacre) 1.28% 4.35%
Broxtowe 1.14% 4.13%
Rushcliffe 0.87% 3.12%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Toton & Chilwell Meadows (Best) 27628/32845
Breaston 23289/32845
Derby Road West 19734/32845
Stapleford North 18435/32845
Sandiacre 17900/32845
Chilwell West 17688/32845
Stapleford South East 16993/32845
Stapleford South West 16953/32845
Long Eaton Central 13964/32845
Derby Road East (Worst) 12516/32845
Reader Opinion:

Nottingham, A dirty place full of people who can't speak properly

Deprivation in Sandiacre

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 Sandiacre. 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
Toton & Chilwell Meadows (Best) 31317/32845
Breaston 27055/32845
Derby Road West 22620/32845
Sandiacre 19909/32845
Chilwell West 19195/32845
Stapleford South East 18943/32845
Long Eaton Central 15882/32845
Stapleford South West 15299/32845
Stapleford North 14048/32845
Derby Road East (Worst) 13228/32845

Average rent in Sandiacre

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Sandiacre

If you are thinking of moving to Sandiacre, 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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