Is Withernsea, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Withernsea a nice place to live or is Withernsea rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Withernsea 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 Withernsea truly a nice place to live, or are Hedon, Cleethorpes and Grimsby a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Withernsea?

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 Withernsea. 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
Keyingham Drain 5
Keyingham 5
Easington 4
Waxholme 2
Aldbrough 1
Patrington 1
Holmpton 1
Patrington Haven 0
Camerton 0
Ryehill 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Withernsea. 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 Withernsea 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 West Holderness ward.

Ward Average rank in England
South West Holderness (Best) 22928/32845
Mid Holderness 22288/32845
North Holderness 20633/32845
Freshney 19345/32845
Wolds 16547/32845
South East Holderness 16021/32845
Longhill & Bilton Grange 7506/32845
Heneage 4336/32845
Sidney Sussex 2946/32845
East Marsh (Worst) 1154/32845
Reader Opinion:

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

Your Health in Withernsea

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

Town Very Bad Bad
East Riding of Yorkshire (Withernsea) 1.24% 4.15%
Kingston upon Hull, City of 1.61% 5.48%
East Lindsey 1.86% 6.36%
North East Lincolnshire 1.35% 4.7%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Mid Holderness (Best) 22783/32845
South West Holderness 21167/32845
Wolds 19094/32845
North Holderness 15721/32845
Freshney 13211/32845
South East Holderness 13132/32845
Heneage 8999/32845
Sidney Sussex 6824/32845
Longhill & Bilton Grange 5296/32845
East Marsh (Worst) 4080/32845
Reader Opinion:

Grimsby & Cleethorpes are depressing, cold, unfriendly holes

Deprivation in Withernsea

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 Withernsea. 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
Wolds (Best) 20877/32845
South West Holderness 19384/32845
Mid Holderness 19337/32845
Freshney 16215/32845
North Holderness 14771/32845
South East Holderness 9752/32845
Heneage 7322/32845
Longhill & Bilton Grange 5602/32845
Sidney Sussex 5484/32845
East Marsh (Worst) 1216/32845

Average rent in Withernsea

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Withernsea

If you are thinking of moving to Withernsea, 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.

How grim is your Postcode?