Is Shirebrook, Derbyshire a nice place to live?

Is Shirebrook a nice place to live or is Shirebrook rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Shirebrook 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 Shirebrook truly a nice place to live, or are Bolsover, Mansfield and Warsop a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Shirebrook?

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 Shirebrook. 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
Langwith Junction 46
Langwith 40
Shirebrook 36
Market Warsop 23
Nether Langwith 18
Warsop Vale 13
Pleasley 13
Stony Houghton 10
New Houghton 9
Spion Kop 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Shirebrook. 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 Shirebrook 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 Bolsover East ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Bolsover East (Best) 28760/32845
Hornby 25270/32845
Ault Hucknall 22596/32845
Shirebrook South 20791/32845
Langwith 18504/32845
Manor 17891/32845
Shirebrook North 17593/32845
Market Warsop 14694/32845
Park Hall 14659/32845
Woodhouse (Worst) 11802/32845
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Your Health in Shirebrook

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Mansfield 1.8% 6.2%
Ashfield 1.5% 5.66%
Chesterfield 1.64% 5.98%
Bolsover (Shirebrook) 1.83% 6.79%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Hornby (Best) 11977/32845
Manor 10244/32845
Ault Hucknall 8037/32845
Bolsover East 7855/32845
Shirebrook South 7292/32845
Park Hall 6017/32845
Shirebrook North 5224/32845
Woodhouse 4892/32845
Market Warsop 4524/32845
Langwith (Worst) 3233/32845
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Deprivation in Shirebrook

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 Shirebrook. 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
Hornby (Best) 19428/32845
Bolsover East 16847/32845
Manor 16586/32845
Ault Hucknall 11472/32845
Park Hall 10199/32845
Shirebrook South 9720/32845
Market Warsop 7481/32845
Shirebrook North 6769/32845
Woodhouse 6201/32845
Langwith (Worst) 5165/32845

Average rent in Shirebrook

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Shirebrook

If you are thinking of moving to Shirebrook, 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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