Is Fazeley, Staffordshire a nice place to live?

Is Fazeley a nice place to live or is Fazeley rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Fazeley 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 Fazeley truly a nice place to live, or are Perry Crofts, Tamworth and Coal Pool a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Fazeley?

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 Fazeley. 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
Tamworth 99
Belgrave 95
Kettlebrook 85
Bolehall 85
Anker 68
Bitterscote 65
Two Gates 42
Fazeley 28
Bonehill 21
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal 3

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Fazeley. 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 Fazeley 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 Hurley and Wood End ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Hurley and Wood End (Best) 24292/32845
Trinity 23826/32845
Wilnecote 20585/32845
Fazeley 18765/32845
Mercian 17570/32845
Bolehall 14322/32845
Castle 12503/32845
Stonydelph 11989/32845
Belgrave 11939/32845
Glascote (Worst) 8444/32845
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Your Health in Fazeley

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Lichfield (Fazeley) 1.19% 3.93%
North West Leicestershire 1.15% 3.99%
Tamworth 1.31% 4.43%
North Warwickshire 1.38% 4.6%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Trinity (Best) 18328/32845
Hurley and Wood End 16620/32845
Wilnecote 16586/32845
Fazeley 14683/32845
Stonydelph 14356/32845
Mercian 12304/32845
Belgrave 11976/32845
Castle 11859/32845
Bolehall 11683/32845
Glascote (Worst) 8316/32845
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Deprivation in Fazeley

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 Fazeley. 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
Trinity (Best) 24693/32845
Wilnecote 19750/32845
Mercian 17478/32845
Castle 15638/32845
Hurley and Wood End 15222/32845
Stonydelph 14919/32845
Bolehall 14616/32845
Fazeley 13801/32845
Belgrave 12557/32845
Glascote (Worst) 8533/32845

Average rent in Fazeley

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Fazeley

If you are thinking of moving to Fazeley, 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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