Is Ellesmere, Shropshire a nice place to live?

Is Ellesmere a nice place to live or is Ellesmere rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Ellesmere 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 Ellesmere truly a nice place to live, or are Oswestry, Chirk and Overton on Dee a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Ellesmere?

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 Ellesmere. 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
Cross 7
Penley 3
Newnes 3
Greenhill Bank 1
Criftins (Dudleston Heath) 1
Dudleston Heath 1
Dudleston Grove 1
Gravel Hole 1
Knolton 1
Breaden Heath 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Ellesmere. 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 Ellesmere 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 Ruyton and Baschurch ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Ruyton and Baschurch (Best) 30649/32845
Whittington 28144/32845
Gobowen, Selattyn and Weston Rhyn 27234/32845
Ellesmere Urban 27216/32845
St Martin's 26454/32845
The Meres 26258/32845
Oswestry East 18195/32845
Overton 1722/32845
Bronington 1518/32845
Marchwiel (Worst) 1090/32845
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Your Health in Ellesmere

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Cheshire East 1.06% 3.85%
Shropshire (Ellesmere) 1.13% 3.91%
Telford and Wrekin 1.42% 4.81%
Wrexham 1.37% 4.84%

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

Ward Average rank in England
St Martin's (Best) 25714/32845
Ellesmere Urban 24034/32845
Ruyton and Baschurch 23712/32845
The Meres 23411/32845
Gobowen, Selattyn and Weston Rhyn 22458/32845
Whittington 19612/32845
Oswestry East 17498/32845
Overton 1593/32845
Bronington 1530/32845
Marchwiel (Worst) 1153/32845

Deprivation in Ellesmere

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. 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
Ruyton and Baschurch (Best) 19540/32845
Gobowen, Selattyn and Weston Rhyn 18959/32845
Whittington 17893/32845
Ellesmere Urban 17821/32845
St Martin's 15983/32845
The Meres 15526/32845
Oswestry East 14261/32845
Overton 1480/32845
Marchwiel 1399/32845
Bronington (Worst) 1367/32845

Average rent in Ellesmere

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Ellesmere

If you are thinking of moving to Ellesmere, 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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