Is Shoeburyness, Essex a nice place to live?

Is Shoeburyness a nice place to live or is Shoeburyness rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Shoeburyness 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 Shoeburyness truly a nice place to live, or are Burnham on Crouch, North Shoebury and Southminster a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Shoeburyness?

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 Shoeburyness. 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
Great Wakering 50
Little Wakering 24
Samuel’s Corner 18
Barling 14
Stoneyhills 13
Burnham-On-Crouch 12
Creeksea 3
Montsale 1
Paglesham Eastend 0
Paglesham Churchend 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Shoeburyness. 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 Shoeburyness 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 Mayland ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Mayland (Best) 27627/32845
Tillingham 26023/32845
Burnham-on-Crouch South 23593/32845
Burnham-on-Crouch North 21775/32845
Foulness and The Wakerings 21708/32845
Southminster 20277/32845
West Shoebury 16268/32845
Southchurch 14157/32845
Shoeburyness 11703/32845
Roche South (Worst) 10862/32845
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Your Health in Shoeburyness

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Southend-on-Sea 1.26% 4.48%
Castle Point 1.26% 4.4%
Rochford (Shoeburyness) 0.94% 3.38%
Maldon 1.08% 3.67%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Mayland (Best) 27516/32845
Tillingham 25772/32845
Burnham-on-Crouch North 24932/32845
Foulness and The Wakerings 24518/32845
Burnham-on-Crouch South 22706/32845
Roche South 20882/32845
Southminster 20384/32845
West Shoebury 16597/32845
Southchurch 14766/32845
Shoeburyness (Worst) 14623/32845

Deprivation in Shoeburyness

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 Shoeburyness. 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
Burnham-on-Crouch North (Best) 22984/32845
Mayland 21672/32845
Burnham-on-Crouch South 19971/32845
Foulness and The Wakerings 19403/32845
West Shoebury 17099/32845
Southminster 16862/32845
Southchurch 15377/32845
Roche South 15324/32845
Tillingham 15305/32845
Shoeburyness (Worst) 12727/32845

Average rent in Shoeburyness

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Shoeburyness

If you are thinking of moving to Shoeburyness, 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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