Is Stockton on Tees, Durham a nice place to live?

Is Stockton on Tees a nice place to live or is Stockton on Tees rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Stockton on Tees 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 Stockton on Tees truly a nice place to live, or are Eaglescliffe, Stockton on Tees and Thornaby on Tees a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Stockton on Tees?

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 Stockton on Tees. 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
Stockton-on-Tees 158
Norton 154
Linthorpe 124
Portrack 91
Hardwick 82
Bishopsgarth 69
Acklam 57
Hartburn 16
Fairfield 16
Tees 9

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Stockton on Tees. 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 Stockton on Tees 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 Fairfield ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Fairfield (Best) 24938/32845
Bishopsgarth and Elm Tree 18550/32845
Grangefield 18132/32845
Roseworth 10542/32845
Mandale and Victoria 10196/32845
Hardwick and Salters Lane 9692/32845
Norton South 8909/32845
Newtown 5725/32845
Parkfield and Oxbridge 4609/32845
Stockton Town Centre (Worst) 1308/32845

Your Health in Stockton on Tees

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Stockton-on-Tees (Stockton on Tees) 1.48% 4.85%
Middlesbrough 1.84% 5.78%
Redcar and Cleveland 1.79% 6.05%
Hartlepool 1.85% 6.29%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Grangefield (Best) 13012/32845
Fairfield 10059/32845
Bishopsgarth and Elm Tree 6998/32845
Mandale and Victoria 4067/32845
Norton South 3798/32845
Parkfield and Oxbridge 3441/32845
Newtown 3307/32845
Roseworth 2423/32845
Hardwick and Salters Lane 1646/32845
Stockton Town Centre (Worst) 528/32845

Deprivation in Stockton on Tees

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 Stockton on Tees. 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
Grangefield (Best) 20973/32845
Fairfield 20271/32845
Bishopsgarth and Elm Tree 15561/32845
Mandale and Victoria 7613/32845
Norton South 6730/32845
Parkfield and Oxbridge 5502/32845
Roseworth 5060/32845
Newtown 4611/32845
Hardwick and Salters Lane 3830/32845
Stockton Town Centre (Worst) 744/32845

Average rent in Stockton on Tees

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Stockton on Tees

If you are thinking of moving to Stockton on Tees, 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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