Is West Bedlington, Northumberland a nice place to live?

Is West Bedlington a nice place to live or is West Bedlington rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that West Bedlington 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 West Bedlington truly a nice place to live, or are Bedlington, Blyth and Cramlington a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in West Bedlington?

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 West Bedlington. 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
Bedlington Station 48
Bedlington 35
Stakeford 25
Choppington 25
Bomarsund 22
Sheepwash 20
Bebside 19
Nedderton 6
Bothal 4
Hepscott 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for West Bedlington. 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 West Bedlington 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 Cramlington North ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Cramlington North (Best) 25898/32845
Cramlington West 23329/32845
Choppington 17048/32845
Bedlington West 13960/32845
Stakeford 13832/32845
Sleekburn 8135/32845
Bedlington Central 5264/32845
Bedlington East 4420/32845
Newsham 2745/32845
Kitty Brewster (Worst) 2451/32845
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Your Health in West Bedlington

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Newcastle upon Tyne 1.55% 5.28%
North Tyneside 1.5% 5.3%
South Tyneside 1.91% 6.34%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Cramlington North (Best) 18443/32845
Bedlington West 13111/32845
Cramlington West 12491/32845
Bedlington Central 10557/32845
Stakeford 9995/32845
Choppington 8894/32845
Newsham 8648/32845
Kitty Brewster 7230/32845
Bedlington East 6974/32845
Sleekburn (Worst) 6428/32845
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Deprivation in West Bedlington

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 West Bedlington. 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
Cramlington North (Best) 25295/32845
Bedlington West 18365/32845
Cramlington West 16900/32845
Stakeford 16271/32845
Choppington 14875/32845
Bedlington Central 14100/32845
Sleekburn 8407/32845
Bedlington East 7616/32845
Newsham 7585/32845
Kitty Brewster (Worst) 5557/32845

Average rent in West Bedlington

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in West Bedlington

If you are thinking of moving to West Bedlington, 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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