Is Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire a nice place to live?

Is Sutton in Ashfield a nice place to live or is Sutton in Ashfield rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Sutton in Ashfield 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 Sutton in Ashfield truly a nice place to live, or are Shirebrook, Kirkby in Ashfield and Mansfield a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Sutton in Ashfield?

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 Sutton in Ashfield. 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
Mansfield 146
Dalestorth 102
Ladybrook 70
Teversal 33
Tibshelf Wharf 17
Fackley 14
Radmanthwaite 12
Dunsill 10
Moorhaigh 6
Pleasleyhill 6

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Sutton in Ashfield. 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 Sutton in Ashfield 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 Sutton Junction & Harlow Wood ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Sutton Junction & Harlow Wood (Best) 21193/32845
Ashfields 17078/32845
St Mary's 13524/32845
Skegby 12817/32845
The Dales 11663/32845
Summit 10790/32845
Leamington 9374/32845
Carsic 9176/32845
Stanton Hill & Teversal 9033/32845
Central & New Cross (Worst) 6984/32845
Reader Opinion:

Kirkby - the bastard cousin of Liverpool

Your Health in Sutton in Ashfield

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Mansfield 1.8% 6.2%
Ashfield (Sutton in Ashfield) 1.5% 5.66%
North East Derbyshire 1.52% 5.37%
Bolsover 1.83% 6.79%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Sutton Junction & Harlow Wood (Best) 18420/32845
Ashfields 9925/32845
Skegby 8585/32845
Stanton Hill & Teversal 8221/32845
Summit 7510/32845
Leamington 7135/32845
The Dales 7132/32845
Central & New Cross 6327/32845
St Mary's 6272/32845
Carsic (Worst) 2962/32845
Reader Opinion:

Bolsover: at night it becomes a typical dirt hole

Deprivation in Sutton in Ashfield

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 Sutton in Ashfield. 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
Sutton Junction & Harlow Wood (Best) 20144/32845
Ashfields 12661/32845
Skegby 12239/32845
The Dales 10930/32845
St Mary's 9443/32845
Stanton Hill & Teversal 9295/32845
Summit 8555/32845
Central & New Cross 8193/32845
Leamington 7949/32845
Carsic (Worst) 4922/32845

Average rent in Sutton in Ashfield

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Sutton in Ashfield

If you are thinking of moving to Sutton in Ashfield, 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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