Is Staveley, Derbyshire a nice place to live?

Is Staveley a nice place to live or is Staveley rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Staveley 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 Staveley truly a nice place to live, or are Barrow Hill and Whittington, Bolsover and Eckington a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Staveley?

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 Staveley. 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
Hollingwood 60
Barrow Hill 37
Netherthorpe 30
Mastin Moor 29
Inkersall 25
Emmett Carr 24
Poolsbrook 14
Pools Brook 11
Renishaw 9
Duckmanton 6

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Staveley. 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 Staveley 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 Brimington South ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Brimington South (Best) 27780/32845
Barlborough 25869/32845
Hollingwood and Inkersall 24991/32845
Brimington North 23694/32845
Barrow Hill and New Whittington 23016/32845
Old Whittington 22698/32845
Eckington South & Renishaw 22672/32845
Bolsover South 22533/32845
Lowgates and Woodthorpe 20391/32845
Middlecroft and Poolsbrook (Worst) 19117/32845
Reader Opinion:

Bolsover: at night it becomes a typical dirt hole

Your Health in Staveley

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Sheffield 1.39% 4.83%
Mansfield 1.8% 6.2%
Chesterfield (Staveley) 1.64% 5.98%
Bolsover 1.83% 6.79%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Barlborough (Best) 15655/32845
Eckington South & Renishaw 13882/32845
Bolsover South 6508/32845
Barrow Hill and New Whittington 6098/32845
Brimington South 6013/32845
Hollingwood and Inkersall 5070/32845
Brimington North 4596/32845
Old Whittington 4541/32845
Lowgates and Woodthorpe 2456/32845
Middlecroft and Poolsbrook (Worst) 838/32845
Reader Opinion:

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Deprivation in Staveley

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 Staveley. 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
Barlborough (Best) 21356/32845
Brimington South 16659/32845
Eckington South & Renishaw 14648/32845
Hollingwood and Inkersall 13018/32845
Bolsover South 12932/32845
Barrow Hill and New Whittington 12288/32845
Old Whittington 10362/32845
Brimington North 10045/32845
Lowgates and Woodthorpe 7716/32845
Middlecroft and Poolsbrook (Worst) 3333/32845

Average rent in Staveley

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Staveley

If you are thinking of moving to Staveley, 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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