Is Pendlebury, Greater Manchester a nice place to live?

Is Pendlebury a nice place to live or is Pendlebury rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Pendlebury 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 Pendlebury truly a nice place to live, or are Prestwich, Swinton and Worsley a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Pendlebury?

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 Pendlebury. 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
Broadoak Park 2
Pendlebury 1
Swinton Park 1
Irlams o’ th’ Height 1
Dales Brow 1
Brindle Heath 1
Swinton 0
Moorside 0
Wardley 0
Rainsough 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Pendlebury. 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 Pendlebury 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 Claremont ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Claremont (Best) 14122/32845
Sedgley 12299/32845
Worsley 11986/32845
Swinton North 11278/32845
Swinton South 9143/32845
St Mary's 8012/32845
Pendlebury 7220/32845
Eccles 6921/32845
Barton 5280/32845
Irwell Riverside (Worst) 2779/32845
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Your Health in Pendlebury

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Manchester 1.72% 5.37%
Wigan 1.49% 5.7%
Salford (Pendlebury) 1.7% 5.87%
Trafford 1.13% 4.09%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Sedgley (Best) 16115/32845
Worsley 15547/32845
St Mary's 10681/32845
Swinton South 8148/32845
Claremont 7430/32845
Eccles 7422/32845
Swinton North 6753/32845
Pendlebury 4813/32845
Irwell Riverside 2768/32845
Barton (Worst) 2087/32845
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Deprivation in Pendlebury

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 Pendlebury. 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
Worsley (Best) 23744/32845
Sedgley 16962/32845
Claremont 14814/32845
St Mary's 13141/32845
Swinton South 13090/32845
Eccles 11471/32845
Swinton North 10585/32845
Pendlebury 8537/32845
Irwell Riverside 5648/32845
Barton (Worst) 4101/32845

Average rent in Pendlebury

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Pendlebury

If you are thinking of moving to Pendlebury, 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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