Is Wroxham, Norfolk a nice place to live?

Is Wroxham a nice place to live or is Wroxham rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Wroxham 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 Wroxham truly a nice place to live, or are Rackheath, Stalham and Thorpe St Andrew a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Wroxham?

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 Wroxham. 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
Rackheath 10
Cangate 4
Coltishall 4
St James 4
Horstead 3
Little Plumstead 3
Salhouse 1
Crowgate Street 1
Tunstead 1
Ashmanhaugh 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Wroxham. 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 Wroxham 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 Hoveton & Tunstead ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Hoveton & Tunstead (Best) 31266/32845
Hevingham 30619/32845
St. Benet's 30251/32845
Sprowston East 30097/32845
Blofield with South Walsham 30023/32845
Plumstead 29820/32845
Wroxham 29031/32845
Sprowston Central 26859/32845
Old Catton and Sprowston West 26303/32845
Coltishall (Worst) 23790/32845

Your Health in Wroxham

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Norwich 1.24% 4.42%
Great Yarmouth 1.63% 5.48%
North Norfolk 1.39% 4.77%
Broadland (Wroxham) 1.08% 3.61%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Plumstead (Best) 27295/32845
Blofield with South Walsham 25666/32845
Sprowston East 25101/32845
Old Catton and Sprowston West 24458/32845
Sprowston Central 22806/32845
Coltishall 22114/32845
Hevingham 21308/32845
Wroxham 20211/32845
St. Benet's 18597/32845
Hoveton & Tunstead (Worst) 16881/32845

Deprivation in Wroxham

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 Wroxham. 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
Sprowston East (Best) 26769/32845
Old Catton and Sprowston West 25471/32845
Blofield with South Walsham 24667/32845
Plumstead 23780/32845
Wroxham 21150/32845
Sprowston Central 20959/32845
Coltishall 19419/32845
Hevingham 17268/32845
St. Benet's 14460/32845
Hoveton & Tunstead (Worst) 14049/32845

Average rent in Wroxham

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Wroxham

If you are thinking of moving to Wroxham, 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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