So you are thinking of moving to Chester 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 Chester 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 Chester the land of milk and honey or are Broughton, Queensferry and Saltney a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Chester
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Chester. 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 |
|---|---|
| Boughton | 99 |
| Chester | 91 |
| Hoole | 87 |
| Lache | 34 |
| Saltney | 21 |
| Broughton | 16 |
| Lower Kinnerton | 15 |
| Bretton | 13 |
| Little Mancot | 10 |
| Gorstella | 3 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Chester. 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 Chester. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Saltney Stonebridge (Best) | 1134/32845 |
| Chester City & the Garden Quarter | 13451/32845 |
| Lache | 14386/32845 |
| Sealand | 167/32845 |
| Handbridge Park | 20356/32845 |
| Newton & Hoole | 21862/32845 |
| Upton | 22859/32845 |
| Great Boughton | 24173/32845 |
| Saltney Mold Junction | 634/32845 |
| Blacon (Worst) | 7737/32845 |
Wrexham - a terrifying spice-zombie filled cesspit
Your Health in Chester
If you are thinking of moving to Chester, 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 Chester 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 West and Chester (Chester) | 1.21% | 4.33% | 12.93% | 33.06% | 48.47% |
| Cheshire East | 1.06% | 3.85% | 12.78% | 33.25% | 49.06% |
| Flintshire | 1.25% | 4.44% | 13.19% | 32.46% | 48.66% |
| Wrexham | 1.37% | 4.84% | 14.1% | 32.49% | 47.2% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Chester. 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 Chester. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Lache (Best) | 10338/32845 |
| Chester City & the Garden Quarter | 11674/32845 |
| Newton & Hoole | 16477/32845 |
| Upton | 17607/32845 |
| Handbridge Park | 18756/32845 |
| Great Boughton | 19232/32845 |
| Sealand | 440/32845 |
| Saltney Mold Junction | 681/32845 |
| Blacon | 6881/32845 |
| Saltney Stonebridge (Worst) | 919/32845 |
Ellesmere Port is a toilet
Deprivation in Chester
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 Chester. 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 |
|---|---|
| Saltney Stonebridge (Best) | 1038/32845 |
| Lache | 12206/32845 |
| Chester City & the Garden Quarter | 16884/32845 |
| Newton & Hoole | 21771/32845 |
| Upton | 22244/32845 |
| Handbridge Park | 23539/32845 |
| Great Boughton | 25383/32845 |
| Sealand | 367/32845 |
| Saltney Mold Junction | 545/32845 |
| Blacon (Worst) | 7726/32845 |
Birkenhead: the roid ridden a***hole of merseyside
Wrexham – a terrifying spice-zombie filled cesspit
Holywell: full of plastic scousers
Blacon, Chester, where you can either take drugs, sell drugs or leave
Ellesmere Port is a toilet
Smacklesfield… I mean Macclesfield
Stalybridge, sweet innocent kids turned into right little bastards
Kazakhstan to Crewe – no thank you!
Congleton: what a place, what a disgrace!