Is Stalham, Norfolk a nice place to live?

Is Stalham a nice place to live or is Stalham rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Stalham 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 Stalham truly a nice place to live, or are North Walsham, Rackheath and Wroxham a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Stalham?

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 Stalham. 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
Stalham 4
Ingham 3
Stalham Green 2
Hickling Heath 2
Hempstead 2
Ingham Corner 2
Hickling Green 1
Hickling 1
Eccles on Sea 1
Chapel Field 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Stalham. 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 Stalham 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 Hoveton & Tunstead ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Hoveton & Tunstead (Best) 31266/32845
St. Benet's 30251/32845
Blofield with South Walsham 30023/32845
Hickling 29205/32845
North Walsham West 28770/32845
Happisburgh 27481/32845
North Walsham East 26911/32845
Stalham 25813/32845
North Walsham Market Cross 25610/32845
West Flegg (Worst) 23747/32845

Your Health in Stalham

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Norwich 1.24% 4.42%
Great Yarmouth 1.63% 5.48%
North Norfolk (Stalham) 1.39% 4.77%
Broadland 1.08% 3.61%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Blofield with South Walsham (Best) 25666/32845
St. Benet's 18597/32845
Hickling 17243/32845
Hoveton & Tunstead 16881/32845
Happisburgh 16173/32845
West Flegg 15950/32845
Stalham 15286/32845
North Walsham West 13618/32845
North Walsham Market Cross 13528/32845
North Walsham East (Worst) 12361/32845

Deprivation in Stalham

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 Stalham. 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
Blofield with South Walsham (Best) 24667/32845
North Walsham West 15362/32845
North Walsham East 14956/32845
North Walsham Market Cross 14652/32845
St. Benet's 14460/32845
Hoveton & Tunstead 14049/32845
West Flegg 13988/32845
Hickling 13664/32845
Stalham 13449/32845
Happisburgh (Worst) 7961/32845

Average rent in Stalham

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Stalham

If you are thinking of moving to Stalham, 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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