Is Cradley Heath, West Midlands a nice place to live?

Is Cradley Heath a nice place to live or is Cradley Heath rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Cradley Heath 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 Cradley Heath truly a nice place to live, or are Brierley Hill, Lye and Rowley Regis a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Cradley Heath?

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 Cradley Heath. 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
Round Oak 116
Brierley Hill 93
Stour 91
Dudley Wood 88
Bowling Green 88
Baptist End 87
Netherton 87
Belle Vale 78
Cradley Heath 75
Cradley 47

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Cradley Heath. 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 Cradley Heath 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 Belle Vale ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Belle Vale (Best) 21382/32845
Amblecote 19943/32845
Cradley and Wollescote 16112/32845
Lye and Stourbridge North 16095/32845
Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood 15006/32845
Blackheath 14205/32845
Cradley Heath and Old Hill 13889/32845
Brierley Hill 13442/32845
Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews 13133/32845
Rowley (Worst) 10557/32845

Your Health in Cradley Heath

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Sandwell (Cradley Heath) 1.8% 5.9%
Dudley 1.42% 5.09%
Wolverhampton 1.66% 5.53%
South Staffordshire 1.27% 4.1%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Amblecote (Best) 15693/32845
Belle Vale 13319/32845
Lye and Stourbridge North 12481/32845
Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood 10462/32845
Cradley and Wollescote 9621/32845
Blackheath 8783/32845
Brierley Hill 8137/32845
Rowley 7991/32845
Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews 7338/32845
Cradley Heath and Old Hill (Worst) 7188/32845

Deprivation in Cradley Heath

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 Cradley Heath. 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
Amblecote (Best) 21273/32845
Belle Vale 14506/32845
Lye and Stourbridge North 14000/32845
Cradley and Wollescote 9465/32845
Blackheath 9283/32845
Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood 8950/32845
Cradley Heath and Old Hill 8893/32845
Rowley 8365/32845
Brierley Hill 8198/32845
Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews (Worst) 5462/32845

Average rent in Cradley Heath

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Cradley Heath

If you are thinking of moving to Cradley Heath, 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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