Is Silloth, Cumbria a nice place to live?

Is Silloth a nice place to live or is Silloth rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Silloth 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 Silloth truly a nice place to live, or are Aspatria, Wigton and Annan a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Silloth?

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 Silloth. 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
Aspatria 4
Silloth 4
Tarns 0
Holme St Cuthbert 0
Abbeytown 0
Goodyhills 0
New Cowper 0
Mealrigg 0
Crookdake 0
Watchhill 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Silloth. 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 Silloth 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 Ellen & Gilcrux ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Ellen & Gilcrux (Best) 29415/32845
All Saints 27925/32845
Marsh & Wampool 27247/32845
Aspatria 26630/32845
Allhallow & Waverton 26252/32845
Silloth & Solway Coast 25861/32845
Wigton & Woodside 24000/32845
Maryport North 13700/32845
Flimby 8809/32845
Annandale South (Worst) 3625/32845
Reader Opinion:

Annan, an unknown but disgusting town.

Your Health in Silloth

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Carlisle 1.34% 4.62%
Allerdale (Silloth) 1.31% 4.94%
Copeland 1.5% 5.33%

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

Ward Average rank in England
All Saints (Best) 20860/32845
Marsh & Wampool 20057/32845
Ellen & Gilcrux 18315/32845
Aspatria 15442/32845
Allhallow & Waverton 15282/32845
Wigton & Woodside 14950/32845
Silloth & Solway Coast 12628/32845
Maryport North 10537/32845
Flimby 5919/32845
Annandale South (Worst) 3923/32845
Reader Opinion:

Wigton is a crummy little town

Deprivation in Silloth

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 Silloth. 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
All Saints (Best) 21192/32845
Ellen & Gilcrux 18616/32845
Wigton & Woodside 15499/32845
Marsh & Wampool 15107/32845
Aspatria 14090/32845
Silloth & Solway Coast 11666/32845
Allhallow & Waverton 11562/32845
Maryport North 10088/32845
Flimby 6919/32845
Annandale South (Worst) 3507/32845

Average rent in Silloth

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Silloth

If you are thinking of moving to Silloth, 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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