So you are thinking of moving to St Ives in Cambridgeshire? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that St Ives is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is St Ives the land of milk and honey or are Godmanchester, Hanley Grange and Huntingdon a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in St Ives
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around St Ives. 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Hartford | 64 |
| St Ives | 24 |
| Fen Drayton | 3 |
| Fenstanton | 2 |
| Great Ouse | 2 |
| Bluntisham | 1 |
| Needingworth | 1 |
| Holywell | 0 |
| Hemingford Grey | 0 |
| Hemingford Abbots | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for St Ives. These statitics 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 collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around St Ives. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Huntingdon East (Best) | 16582/32845 |
| St Ives West | 19535/32845 |
| Over & Willingham | 21690/32845 |
| St Ives South | 21901/32845 |
| Fenstanton | 22564/32845 |
| St Ives East | 22573/32845 |
| Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots | 24272/32845 |
| Hemingford Grey & Houghton | 24533/32845 |
| Holywell-cum-Needingworth | 25633/32845 |
| Somersham (Worst) | 26401/32845 |
Peterborough - there is no culture
Your Health in St Ives
If you are thinking of moving to St Ives, 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 St Ives compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntingdonshire (St Ives) | 0.85% | 3.09% | 11.61% | 35.67% | 48.77% |
| Fenland | 1.36% | 4.82% | 16.54% | 37.83% | 39.45% |
| South Cambridgeshire | 0.7% | 2.51% | 10.62% | 33.71% | 52.46% |
| Cambridge | 0.78% | 2.85% | 9.7% | 31.97% | 54.69% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for St Ives. 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 St Ives. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Huntingdon East (Best) | 17401/32845 |
| St Ives East | 23676/32845 |
| Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots | 24460/32845 |
| St Ives South | 24736/32845 |
| St Ives West | 25278/32845 |
| Fenstanton | 26171/32845 |
| Holywell-cum-Needingworth | 28405/32845 |
| Hemingford Grey & Houghton | 28577/32845 |
| Over & Willingham | 28692/32845 |
| Somersham (Worst) | 28701/32845 |
Ramsey, Huntingdon, Godless chav safari park
Deprivation in St Ives
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 St Ives. 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 |
|---|---|
| Huntingdon East (Best) | 15186/32845 |
| St Ives East | 20885/32845 |
| St Ives West | 23802/32845 |
| Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots | 25326/32845 |
| St Ives South | 25408/32845 |
| Over & Willingham | 27224/32845 |
| Fenstanton | 27335/32845 |
| Hemingford Grey & Houghton | 27415/32845 |
| Somersham | 27933/32845 |
| Holywell-cum-Needingworth (Worst) | 29977/32845 |
Peterborough: oh for a nuclear bomb (or a really big bulldozer)
Wisbech, knows as Wizzybekhistan by the locals
Peterborough – there is no culture
Huntingdon don’t bother
Leighton Buzzard: without the boys in blue, ***** would be running the streets
Peterborough, I am forced into living the ‘ch4v’ life
Ramsey, Huntingdon, Godless **** safari park
St Neots, Cambridgeshire, sounds a bit posh, in reality it’s far from it!
Wisbech, I came pretty close to sliding into depression