Is Swadlincote, Derbyshire a nice place to live?

Is Swadlincote a nice place to live or is Swadlincote rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Swadlincote 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 Swadlincote truly a nice place to live, or are Ashby de la Zouch, Ashby Woulds and Burton upon Trent a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Swadlincote?

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 Swadlincote. 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
Blackfordby 5
Boundary 4
Albert Village 3
Church Gresley 2
Goseley Dale 2
Hartshorne 1
Bretby 1
Lower Midway 0
Newhall 0
Castle Gresley 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Swadlincote. 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 Swadlincote 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 Repton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Repton (Best) 28900/32845
Midway 27452/32845
Brizlincote 25559/32845
Woodville 25021/32845
Swadlincote 23327/32845
Linton 21418/32845
Church Gresley 21368/32845
Newhall and Stanton 21151/32845
Blackfordby 20718/32845
Ashby Woulds (Worst) 19634/32845

Your Health in Swadlincote

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Derby 1.31% 4.59%
East Staffordshire 1.09% 3.85%
North West Leicestershire 1.15% 3.99%
South Derbyshire (Swadlincote) 1.05% 3.85%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Repton (Best) 26185/32845
Brizlincote 22633/32845
Linton 17007/32845
Woodville 15928/32845
Ashby Woulds 15880/32845
Blackfordby 15581/32845
Midway 15335/32845
Swadlincote 13256/32845
Newhall and Stanton 11851/32845
Church Gresley (Worst) 10992/32845

Deprivation in Swadlincote

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 Swadlincote. 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
Brizlincote (Best) 27913/32845
Repton 25416/32845
Linton 18643/32845
Midway 18300/32845
Blackfordby 18238/32845
Ashby Woulds 17500/32845
Swadlincote 17244/32845
Woodville 16614/32845
Church Gresley 15083/32845
Newhall and Stanton (Worst) 13533/32845

Average rent in Swadlincote

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Swadlincote

If you are thinking of moving to Swadlincote, 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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