Is Cheadle, Staffordshire a nice place to live?

Is Cheadle a nice place to live or is Cheadle rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Cheadle 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 Cheadle truly a nice place to live, or are Alton, Stoke on Trent and Uttoxeter a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Cheadle?

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 Cheadle. 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
Cheadle 40
Cheadle Park 37
Rakeway 17
Brookhouses 9
Mobberley 7
Freehay 2
Boundary 1
Froghall 1
Oldfurnace 0
Oakamoor 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Cheadle. 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 Cheadle 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 Ipstones ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Ipstones (Best) 31720/32845
Alton 30772/32845
Checkley 28651/32845
Abbey 27348/32845
Cheadle West 25613/32845
Churnet 25039/32845
Cheadle North East 24547/32845
Forsbrook 24197/32845
Cheadle South East 20606/32845
Caverswall (Worst) 10665/32845
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Your Health in Cheadle

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Stoke-on-Trent 1.87% 6.17%
Stafford 1.14% 3.91%
Staffordshire Moorlands (Cheadle) 1.37% 4.55%
East Staffordshire 1.09% 3.85%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Alton (Best) 26201/32845
Abbey 25911/32845
Ipstones 24741/32845
Forsbrook 22836/32845
Churnet 21939/32845
Checkley 21909/32845
Cheadle West 18851/32845
Caverswall 18340/32845
Cheadle South East 15905/32845
Cheadle North East (Worst) 11791/32845
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Deprivation in Cheadle

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 Cheadle. 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
Alton (Best) 28506/32845
Forsbrook 25779/32845
Checkley 22834/32845
Cheadle West 21704/32845
Abbey 19589/32845
Cheadle South East 19338/32845
Ipstones 18394/32845
Caverswall 17616/32845
Churnet 17376/32845
Cheadle North East (Worst) 14107/32845

Average rent in Cheadle

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Cheadle

If you are thinking of moving to Cheadle, 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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