So you are thinking of moving to Birchwood in Cheshire? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Birchwood is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Birchwood the land of milk and honey or are Wilmslow, Cheadle and Cheadle Hulme a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Birchwood
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of July 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Birchwood. 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Finney Green | 57 |
| Handforth | 47 |
| Lacey Green | 39 |
| Gillbent | 26 |
| Heald Green | 13 |
| Moss Nook | 2 |
| Peel Hall | 1 |
| Warburton Green | 0 |
| Cheadle Hulme | 0 |
| Hale Barns | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Birchwood. These statitics 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 collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Birchwood. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Heald Green (Best) | 13512/32845 |
| Wilmslow Lacey Green | 16771/32845 |
| Handforth | 19288/32845 |
| Wilmslow West and Chorley | 22780/32845 |
| Wilmslow East | 23729/32845 |
| Wilmslow Dean Row | 24395/32845 |
| Mobberley | 25061/32845 |
| Alderley Edge | 26631/32845 |
| Chelford | 30853/32845 |
| Woodhouse Park (Worst) | 5063/32845 |
Stafford truly is the new Crewe and then some!
Your Health in Birchwood
If you are thinking of moving to Birchwood, 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 Birchwood compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire East (Birchwood) | 1.06% | 3.85% | 12.78% | 33.25% | 49.06% |
| Tameside | 1.6% | 5.7% | 15.05% | 33.7% | 43.96% |
| Stockport | 1.21% | 4.41% | 13.27% | 33.27% | 47.83% |
| Trafford | 1.13% | 4.09% | 12.16% | 31.64% | 50.97% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Birchwood. 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 Birchwood. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Woodhouse Park (Best) | 1165/32845 |
| Heald Green | 15198/32845 |
| Handforth | 16881/32845 |
| Wilmslow Lacey Green | 19793/32845 |
| Chelford | 21614/32845 |
| Mobberley | 23983/32845 |
| Wilmslow West and Chorley | 27654/32845 |
| Wilmslow East | 28387/32845 |
| Wilmslow Dean Row | 28930/32845 |
| Alderley Edge (Worst) | 29992/32845 |
Cheadle, a 1970's time capsule of inward looking culture-phobes
Deprivation in Birchwood
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 Birchwood. 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 |
|---|---|
| Handforth (Best) | 19509/32845 |
| Heald Green | 20449/32845 |
| Mobberley | 21999/32845 |
| Wilmslow Lacey Green | 22073/32845 |
| Chelford | 23246/32845 |
| Wilmslow Dean Row | 28090/32845 |
| Wilmslow West and Chorley | 29876/32845 |
| Woodhouse Park | 3034/32845 |
| Wilmslow East | 31043/32845 |
| Alderley Edge (Worst) | 31589/32845 |
Macclesfield: for a lass born and bred in Stockport, this place is odd
Nantwich: home of the yummy mummy & a sea of middle class insolence
Kazakhstan to Crewe – no thank you!
Crewe, you’d be commiserated if people think you live there
Winsford, once a nice, peaceful and prosperous town
Nantwich: the place that time forgot
Widnes, an unflushed toilet of a place between Warrington & Liverpool
Smacklesfield… I mean Macclesfield
Warrington: a town that will not be gentrified for a long time