Is Yarm, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Yarm a nice place to live or is Yarm rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Yarm 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 Yarm truly a nice place to live, or are Ingleby Barwick, Stokesley and Thornaby on Tees a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Yarm?

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 Yarm. 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
Nunthorpe 10
Stokesley 10
Langbaurgh 10
Great Ayton 10
Little Ayton 9
Pinchinthorpe 3
Broughton Beck 0
Great Broughton 0
Tame Bridge 0
Kildale 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Yarm. 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 Yarm 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 Great Ayton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Great Ayton (Best) 28017/32845
Stokesley 27860/32845
Nunthorpe 26892/32845
Marton West 25880/32845
Hutton 19948/32845
Marton East 17624/32845
Coulby Newham 17166/32845
Ormesby 13834/32845
Normanby 11683/32845
Hemlington (Worst) 10513/32845

Your Health in Yarm

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Middlesbrough 1.84% 5.78%
Redcar and Cleveland 1.79% 6.05%
Hambleton (Yarm) 0.97% 3.33%
Ryedale 1.05% 3.57%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Great Ayton (Best) 26548/32845
Stokesley 26542/32845
Hutton 15684/32845
Nunthorpe 14729/32845
Marton East 13897/32845
Marton West 11221/32845
Ormesby 9611/32845
Normanby 8133/32845
Coulby Newham 6085/32845
Hemlington (Worst) 2811/32845

Deprivation in Yarm

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 Yarm. 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
Nunthorpe (Best) 27050/32845
Stokesley 24080/32845
Great Ayton 23827/32845
Marton East 22821/32845
Marton West 21745/32845
Hutton 21546/32845
Ormesby 16737/32845
Normanby 13949/32845
Coulby Newham 11250/32845
Hemlington (Worst) 5356/32845

Average rent in Yarm

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Yarm

If you are thinking of moving to Yarm, 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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