Is Thorne, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Thorne a nice place to live or is Thorne rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Thorne 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 Thorne truly a nice place to live, or are Crowle, Hatfield and Stainforth a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Thorne?

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 Thorne. 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
Moorends 43
Stainforth 30
Canal Side 19
Far Bank 13
Fishlake 12
Waterside 10
Hangsman Hill 9
Brierholme Carr 3
Pincheon Green 0
Fosterhouses 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Thorne. 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 Thorne 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 Whitley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Whitley (Best) 23545/32845
Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland 22146/32845
Axholme Central 18118/32845
Goole South 15380/32845
Armthorpe 13842/32845
Edenthorpe & Kirk Sandall 12381/32845
Norton & Askern 10519/32845
Stainforth & Barnby Dun 10448/32845
Hatfield 7946/32845
Thorne & Moorends (Worst) 6179/32845
Reader Opinion:

Hertford: fetid with the haughty stench of smug self righteousness

Your Health in Thorne

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Doncaster (Thorne) 1.64% 5.62%
East Riding of Yorkshire 1.24% 4.15%
North Lincolnshire 1.24% 4.53%
Selby 0.97% 3.6%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Whitley (Best) 26758/32845
Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland 21913/32845
Axholme Central 19118/32845
Goole South 14819/32845
Edenthorpe & Kirk Sandall 12592/32845
Stainforth & Barnby Dun 10559/32845
Norton & Askern 9337/32845
Armthorpe 8206/32845
Hatfield 7697/32845
Thorne & Moorends (Worst) 5990/32845
Reader Opinion:

Hatfield, take the average new town. Kick it about a bit & remove all the leisure amenities

Deprivation in Thorne

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 Thorne. 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
Axholme Central (Best) 23355/32845
Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland 20987/32845
Whitley 20120/32845
Edenthorpe & Kirk Sandall 19961/32845
Stainforth & Barnby Dun 14281/32845
Armthorpe 14021/32845
Hatfield 12254/32845
Norton & Askern 10681/32845
Goole South 9220/32845
Thorne & Moorends (Worst) 7180/32845

Average rent in Thorne

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Thorne

If you are thinking of moving to Thorne, 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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