Is Snodland a nice place to live or is Snodland rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Snodland 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 Snodland truly a nice place to live, or are Chatham, Rochester and West Malling a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Snodland?
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 Snodland. 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 |
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New Hythe | 42 |
Ham Hill | 35 |
Holborough | 23 |
Millhall | 23 |
Burham Court | 22 |
Burham | 8 |
Birling | 8 |
Halling | 7 |
Eccles | 7 |
Upper Halling | 6 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Snodland. 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 Snodland and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Ditton (Best) | 22109/32845 |
Larkfield North | 20616/32845 |
Aylesford South | 19620/32845 |
Snodland West and Holborough Lakes | 19062/32845 |
Larkfield South | 15932/32845 |
Cuxton and Halling | 15734/32845 |
Aylesford North and Walderslade | 15278/32845 |
Burham and Wouldham | 11863/32845 |
Snodland East and Ham Hill | 11072/32845 |
East Malling (Worst) | 7257/32845 |
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Your Health in Snodland
If you are thinking of moving to Snodland, 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 Snodland compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
Town | Very Bad | Bad |
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Medway | 1.09% | 3.94% |
Gravesham | 1.1% | 4.03% |
Tonbridge and Malling (Snodland) | 0.86% | 3.09% |
Dartford | 1.03% | 3.4% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Snodland. 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 Snodland. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Larkfield North (Best) | 27705/32845 |
Ditton | 25094/32845 |
Larkfield South | 24086/32845 |
Cuxton and Halling | 23426/32845 |
Aylesford North and Walderslade | 23110/32845 |
Snodland West and Holborough Lakes | 22290/32845 |
Aylesford South | 21666/32845 |
Burham and Wouldham | 20897/32845 |
East Malling | 19180/32845 |
Snodland East and Ham Hill (Worst) | 17413/32845 |
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Deprivation in Snodland
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 Snodland. 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 |
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Larkfield North (Best) | 24260/32845 |
Cuxton and Halling | 22693/32845 |
Larkfield South | 22616/32845 |
Ditton | 22342/32845 |
Snodland West and Holborough Lakes | 20703/32845 |
Aylesford North and Walderslade | 19839/32845 |
Aylesford South | 18711/32845 |
Burham and Wouldham | 17370/32845 |
Snodland East and Ham Hill | 13273/32845 |
East Malling (Worst) | 11256/32845 |
Average rent in Snodland
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Snodland 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 Snodland.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Snodland
If you are thinking of moving to Snodland, 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.