So you are thinking of moving to Ellesmere Port 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 Ellesmere Port 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 Ellesmere Port the land of milk and honey or are Chester, Bebington and Bromborough a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Ellesmere Port
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 Ellesmere Port. 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 |
|---|---|
| Halewood | 58 |
| Speke | 42 |
| Garston | 39 |
| Grassendale | 32 |
| Spital | 26 |
| Bromborough | 19 |
| Hale | 18 |
| Hooton | 14 |
| Brookhurst | 14 |
| Shotwick | 1 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Ellesmere Port. 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 Ellesmere Port. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Netherpool (Best) | 11988/32845 |
| Sutton Villages | 14536/32845 |
| Whitby Park | 14674/32845 |
| Gowy Rural | 22160/32845 |
| Whitby Groves | 22761/32845 |
| Ledsham & Manor | 27774/32845 |
| Strawberry | 29400/32845 |
| Central & Grange | 7972/32845 |
| Wolverham | 8707/32845 |
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Your Health in Ellesmere Port
If you are thinking of moving to Ellesmere Port, 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 Ellesmere Port 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 (Ellesmere Port) | 1.21% | 4.33% | 12.93% | 33.06% | 48.47% |
| Knowsley | 2.18% | 7.29% | 14.68% | 29.82% | 46.03% |
| Halton | 1.7% | 6.15% | 13.92% | 31.57% | 46.67% |
| Flintshire | 1.25% | 4.44% | 13.19% | 32.46% | 48.66% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Ellesmere Port. 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 Ellesmere Port. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Gowy Rural (Best) | 15692/32845 |
| Whitby Groves | 17102/32845 |
| Strawberry | 18477/32845 |
| Ledsham & Manor | 20244/32845 |
| Wolverham | 3315/32845 |
| Central & Grange | 4149/32845 |
| Netherpool | 5958/32845 |
| Sutton Villages | 8699/32845 |
| Whitby Park | 9111/32845 |
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Deprivation in Ellesmere Port
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 Ellesmere Port. 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 |
|---|---|
| Sutton Villages (Best) | 11971/32845 |
| Whitby Park | 16451/32845 |
| Gowy Rural | 19207/32845 |
| Whitby Groves | 25263/32845 |
| Strawberry | 27917/32845 |
| Ledsham & Manor | 28383/32845 |
| Wolverham | 4431/32845 |
| Central & Grange | 5040/32845 |
| Netherpool | 7737/32845 |
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