Is Audenshaw, Greater Manchester a nice place to live?

Is Audenshaw a nice place to live or is Audenshaw rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Audenshaw 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 Audenshaw truly a nice place to live, or are Ashton under Lyne, Denton and Droylsden a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Audenshaw?

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 Audenshaw. 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
Audenshaw 3
Hooley Hill 3
Tame 2
Audenshaw Reservoirs 2
Manchester and Ashton Canal 1
Ashton Canal 1
Crowhill 1
Littlemoss 1
Fairfield 0
Dukinfield 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Audenshaw. 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 Audenshaw 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 Denton West ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Denton West (Best) 13215/32845
Hyde Newton 9557/32845
Denton South 7572/32845
Droylsden West 7558/32845
Droylsden East 7131/32845
Audenshaw 7065/32845
Dukinfield 6692/32845
Ashton Waterloo 6297/32845
St Peter's 5966/32845
Denton North East (Worst) 5423/32845
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Your Health in Audenshaw

If you are thinking of moving to Audenshaw, 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 Audenshaw 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%
Tameside (Audenshaw) 1.6% 5.7%
Oldham 1.52% 5.42%
Stockport 1.21% 4.41%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Denton West (Best) 8353/32845
Denton North East 7758/32845
Audenshaw 7472/32845
Hyde Newton 6733/32845
Droylsden West 6651/32845
Dukinfield 5961/32845
Droylsden East 5887/32845
Ashton Waterloo 5653/32845
Denton South 5112/32845
St Peter's (Worst) 3130/32845
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Deprivation in Audenshaw

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 Audenshaw. 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
Denton West (Best) 14869/32845
Audenshaw 11233/32845
Hyde Newton 10457/32845
Denton North East 10088/32845
Ashton Waterloo 9485/32845
Dukinfield 9297/32845
Droylsden West 9050/32845
Droylsden East 8425/32845
Denton South 7566/32845
St Peter's (Worst) 4388/32845

Average rent in Audenshaw

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Audenshaw

If you are thinking of moving to Audenshaw, 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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