Is Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire a nice place to live?

Is Huntingdon a nice place to live or is Huntingdon rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon truly a nice place to live, or are Godmanchester, St Ives and St Neots a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Huntingdon?

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 Huntingdon. 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 AreaVoilent Crimes
Hartford50
St Ives38
Great Ouse16
Offord Cluny7
Green End6
Hemingford Abbots4
Little Stukeley2
Hemingford Grey1
Abbots Ripton1
Great Stukeley0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Huntingdon. 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 Huntingdon 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 The Stukeleys ward.

WardAverage rank in England
The Stukeleys (Best)26840/32845
Buckden25376/32845
Brampton24829/32845
Alconbury24663/32845
Hemingford Grey & Houghton24533/32845
Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots24272/32845
St Ives South21901/32845
St Ives West19535/32845
Huntingdon East16582/32845
Huntingdon North (Worst)15791/32845
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Is Huntingdon a healthy place to live?

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

TownVery BadBad
Huntingdonshire (Huntingdon)0.85%3.09%
Fenland1.36%4.82%
South Cambridgeshire0.7%2.51%
Cambridge0.78%2.85%

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

WardAverage rank in England
Buckden (Best)29689/32845
Hemingford Grey & Houghton28577/32845
Alconbury25831/32845
St Ives West25278/32845
Brampton25179/32845
St Ives South24736/32845
Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots24460/32845
The Stukeleys23536/32845
Huntingdon East17401/32845
Huntingdon North (Worst)15012/32845
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Is Huntingdon rough?

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 Huntingdon. 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.

WardAverage rank in England
Buckden (Best)27753/32845
Hemingford Grey & Houghton27415/32845
Brampton25733/32845
St Ives South25408/32845
Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots25326/32845
The Stukeleys24977/32845
St Ives West23802/32845
Alconbury23028/32845
Huntingdon East15186/32845
Huntingdon North (Worst)13333/32845

What is the average rent in Huntingdon?

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Huntingdon are dated September 2023. They are split into three figures, the lower quartile, mean and upper quartile. If you recieve housing benefit or the housing benefit element of Universal Credit, the lower 25% figure is near the top limit of what would be affordable. The mean is the average you would expect to pay for a rental property in Huntingdon.

How much can I earn in Huntingdon?

If you are thinking of moving to Huntingdon, 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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