Is Winterton, Lincolnshire a nice place to live?

Is Winterton a nice place to live or is Winterton rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Winterton 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 Winterton truly a nice place to live, or are Brough, Barton upon Humber and Scunthorpe a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Winterton?

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 Winterton. 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
Roxby 3
Brough 2
Appleby 2
Thealby 1
Dragonby 0
South Ferriby 0
Waterton 0
Read’s Island 0
Alkborough 0
Bonby 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Winterton. 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 Winterton 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 South Hunsley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
South Hunsley (Best) 30017/32845
Broughton and Appleby 24791/32845
Burton upon Stather and Winterton 20816/32845
Brigg and Wolds 19800/32845
Barton 15452/32845
Burringham and Gunness 10737/32845
Crosby and Park 8885/32845
Frodingham 8763/32845
Kingsway with Lincoln Gardens 8614/32845
Town (Worst) 6417/32845
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Your Health in Winterton

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Kingston upon Hull, City of 1.61% 5.48%
North Lincolnshire (Winterton) 1.24% 4.53%
Bassetlaw 1.5% 5.24%
West Lindsey 1.11% 4.25%

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

Ward Average rank in England
South Hunsley (Best) 28668/32845
Broughton and Appleby 17368/32845
Burton upon Stather and Winterton 16536/32845
Barton 16388/32845
Brigg and Wolds 14044/32845
Burringham and Gunness 12372/32845
Kingsway with Lincoln Gardens 12184/32845
Town 8849/32845
Frodingham 8420/32845
Crosby and Park (Worst) 8207/32845
Reader Opinion:

Grimsby: the name says it all, GRIM-sby, it's an utter dump

Deprivation in Winterton

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 Winterton. 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
South Hunsley (Best) 31613/32845
Broughton and Appleby 22053/32845
Burton upon Stather and Winterton 19628/32845
Brigg and Wolds 16223/32845
Kingsway with Lincoln Gardens 15256/32845
Barton 14821/32845
Burringham and Gunness 12219/32845
Crosby and Park 10496/32845
Town 9399/32845
Frodingham (Worst) 7793/32845

Average rent in Winterton

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Winterton

If you are thinking of moving to Winterton, 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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