Is Stanley, Durham a nice place to live?

Is Stanley a nice place to live or is Stanley rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Stanley 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 Stanley truly a nice place to live, or are Chester le Street, Consett and Birtley a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Stanley?

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 Stanley. 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
Shield Row 89
South Stanley 88
South Moor 31
Harperley 29
Tanfield Lea 20
Beamish 16
Tantobie 10
Tanfield 8
High Forge 7
Causey 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Stanley. 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 Stanley 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 Lanchester ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Lanchester (Best) 23952/32845
Burnopfield and Dipton 23675/32845
North Lodge 22916/32845
Chester-le-Street North 16370/32845
Tanfield 14687/32845
Lamesley 11714/32845
Stanley 11264/32845
Pelton 11036/32845
Annfield Plain 9483/32845
Craghead and South Moor (Worst) 6842/32845
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Your Health in Stanley

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

Town Very Bad Bad
County Durham (Stanley) 1.82% 6.35%
Sunderland 1.99% 6.59%
Newcastle upon Tyne 1.55% 5.28%

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

Ward Average rank in England
North Lodge (Best) 16340/32845
Lanchester 12986/32845
Chester-le-Street North 11183/32845
Burnopfield and Dipton 10049/32845
Pelton 9694/32845
Tanfield 6877/32845
Lamesley 5582/32845
Annfield Plain 4945/32845
Stanley 4837/32845
Craghead and South Moor (Worst) 4813/32845
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Deprivation in Stanley

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 Stanley. 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
North Lodge (Best) 26141/32845
Lanchester 20623/32845
Burnopfield and Dipton 19170/32845
Chester-le-Street North 18248/32845
Pelton 14908/32845
Tanfield 11731/32845
Lamesley 8595/32845
Stanley 6560/32845
Annfield Plain 6177/32845
Craghead and South Moor (Worst) 4672/32845

Average rent in Stanley

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Stanley

If you are thinking of moving to Stanley, 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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