Is Ulverston, Cumbria a nice place to live?

Is Ulverston a nice place to live or is Ulverston rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Ulverston 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 Ulverston truly a nice place to live, or are Broughton in Furness, Dalton in Furness and Millom a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Ulverston?

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 Ulverston. 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
Ulverston 19
Dragley Beck 18
South Ulverston 14
Newland 13
Sandside 7
Croftlands 4
Rowe Head 2
Mansriggs 1
Newland Bottom 1
Arrad Foot 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Ulverston. 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 Ulverston 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 Furness Peninsula ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Furness Peninsula (Best) 32602/32845
Broughton & Coniston 31730/32845
Ulverston West 30109/32845
Hawcoat 29856/32845
Dalton North 29057/32845
Millom 28816/32845
Ulverston East 27462/32845
Dalton South 26841/32845
Newbarns 22284/32845
Parkside (Worst) 16426/32845
Reader Opinion:

Bradley, the mess in the slippers of Huddersfield

Your Health in Ulverston

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Lancaster 1.3% 4.49%
Wyre 1.66% 5.52%
Barrow-in-Furness 1.8% 6.57%
South Lakeland (Ulverston) 0.96% 3.57%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Broughton & Coniston (Best) 26785/32845
Furness Peninsula 23176/32845
Ulverston West 22565/32845
Ulverston East 10902/32845
Dalton North 7292/32845
Dalton South 6051/32845
Millom 5773/32845
Hawcoat 4636/32845
Newbarns 4128/32845
Parkside (Worst) 3934/32845
Reader Opinion:

Huddersfield, not such a 'brilliant' place to live!

Deprivation in Ulverston

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 Ulverston. 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
Ulverston West (Best) 27139/32845
Hawcoat 21070/32845
Furness Peninsula 20536/32845
Broughton & Coniston 20024/32845
Dalton North 16329/32845
Dalton South 14818/32845
Newbarns 14156/32845
Ulverston East 13731/32845
Parkside 12067/32845
Millom (Worst) 9360/32845

Average rent in Ulverston

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Ulverston

If you are thinking of moving to Ulverston, 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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