Is Spilsby, Lincolnshire a nice place to live?

Is Spilsby a nice place to live or is Spilsby rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Spilsby 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 Spilsby truly a nice place to live, or are Alford, Burgh le Marsh and Wainfleet a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Spilsby?

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 Spilsby. 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
Spilsby 8
Halton Holegate 5
Langton 1
Toynton All Saints 0
Ashby by Partney 0
Mavis Enderby 0
Partney 0
Toynton St Peter 0
Grebby 0
Monksthorpe 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Spilsby. 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 Spilsby 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 Halton Holegate ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Halton Holegate (Best) 28381/32845
Old Leake and Wrangle 27177/32845
Friskney 26528/32845
Willoughby with Sloothby 25112/32845
Burgh le Marsh 24409/32845
Spilsby 22299/32845
Croft 21699/32845
Wainfleet 18327/32845
Chapel St Leonards 17739/32845

Your Health in Spilsby

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

Town Very Bad Bad
East Lindsey (Spilsby) 1.86% 6.36%
North Kesteven 1.14% 3.9%
Lincoln 1.16% 4.18%
Boston 1.24% 4.73%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Willoughby with Sloothby (Best) 12553/32845
Friskney 11012/32845
Old Leake and Wrangle 10605/32845
Halton Holegate 10570/32845
Spilsby 9493/32845
Croft 8820/32845
Burgh le Marsh 5758/32845
Wainfleet 5208/32845
Chapel St Leonards 2251/32845

Deprivation in Spilsby

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 Spilsby. 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
Burgh le Marsh (Best) 11634/32845
Spilsby 11184/32845
Old Leake and Wrangle 8610/32845
Halton Holegate 8610/32845
Willoughby with Sloothby 7938/32845
Croft 7528/32845
Friskney 6470/32845
Wainfleet 3439/32845
Chapel St Leonards 3107/32845

Average rent in Spilsby

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Spilsby

If you are thinking of moving to Spilsby, 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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