Is Burslem, Staffordshire a nice place to live?

Is Burslem a nice place to live or is Burslem rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Burslem 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 Burslem truly a nice place to live, or are Kidsgrove, Longton and Newcastle under Lyme a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Burslem?

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 Burslem. 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
Stoke-on-Trent185
Cobridge176
Burslem121
Newcastle-under-Lyme115
Basford115
May Bank107
Etruria96
Cross Heath91
Porthill71
Longport69

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Burslem. 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 Burslem 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 Bradwell ward.

WardAverage rank in England
Bradwell (Best)20016/32845
Thistleberry19522/32845
May Bank17687/32845
Wolstanton15844/32845
Knutton12410/32845
Town10132/32845
Cross Heath9094/32845
Burslem Park6840/32845
Moorcroft3018/32845
Burslem Central (Worst)2114/32845
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Your Health in Burslem

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

TownVery BadBad
Stoke-on-Trent1.87%6.17%
Shropshire1.13%3.91%
Newcastle-under-Lyme (Burslem)1.4%5.1%
Staffordshire Moorlands1.37%4.55%

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

WardAverage rank in England
May Bank (Best)12960/32845
Wolstanton12609/32845
Thistleberry12028/32845
Bradwell11571/32845
Cross Heath5623/32845
Town5451/32845
Knutton4047/32845
Burslem Park3688/32845
Burslem Central2297/32845
Moorcroft (Worst)2189/32845
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Deprivation in Burslem

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 Burslem. 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
May Bank (Best)18888/32845
Thistleberry18753/32845
Wolstanton18213/32845
Bradwell17927/32845
Town9365/32845
Cross Heath7896/32845
Knutton7345/32845
Burslem Park5358/32845
Moorcroft3515/32845
Burslem Central (Worst)2843/32845

Average rent in Burslem

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Burslem

If you are thinking of moving to Burslem, 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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