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 |
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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.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.