Is Stokesley, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Stokesley?

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 Stokesley. 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
Nunthorpe 13
Langbaurgh 6
Great Ayton 6
Stokesley 5
Little Ayton 4
Great Broughton 2
Rudby 2
Broughton Beck 1
Tame Bridge 1
Carlton in Cleveland 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Stokesley. 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 Stokesley 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 Great Ayton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Great Ayton (Best) 28017/32845
Hutton Rudby 27884/32845
Stokesley 27860/32845
Nunthorpe 26892/32845
Ingleby Barwick East 25989/32845
Marton West 25880/32845
Marton East 17624/32845
Coulby Newham 17166/32845
Hemlington 10513/32845
Stainton & Thornton (Worst) 10158/32845

Your Health in Stokesley

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Middlesbrough 1.84% 5.78%
Redcar and Cleveland 1.79% 6.05%
Hambleton (Stokesley) 0.97% 3.33%
Ryedale 1.05% 3.57%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Hutton Rudby (Best) 29624/32845
Great Ayton 26548/32845
Stokesley 26542/32845
Ingleby Barwick East 14730/32845
Nunthorpe 14729/32845
Marton East 13897/32845
Marton West 11221/32845
Coulby Newham 6085/32845
Stainton & Thornton 6060/32845
Hemlington (Worst) 2811/32845

Deprivation in Stokesley

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 Stokesley. 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
Ingleby Barwick East (Best) 27338/32845
Nunthorpe 27050/32845
Hutton Rudby 25599/32845
Stokesley 24080/32845
Great Ayton 23827/32845
Marton East 22821/32845
Marton West 21745/32845
Coulby Newham 11250/32845
Stainton & Thornton 10932/32845
Hemlington (Worst) 5356/32845

Average rent in Stokesley

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Stokesley

If you are thinking of moving to Stokesley, 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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