Is Frodsham, Cheshire a nice place to live?

Is Frodsham a nice place to live or is Frodsham rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Frodsham 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 Frodsham truly a nice place to live, or are Runcorn, Widnes and Halewood a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Frodsham?

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 Frodsham. 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
Halton Brook 94
Higher Runcorn 85
Palacefields 42
Brookvale 42
Beechwood 36
Frodsham 21
Keckwick 17
Marsh Green 15
Hale 14
Hale Bank 6

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Frodsham. 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 Frodsham 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 Beechwood ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Beechwood (Best) 27596/32845
Frodsham 21317/32845
Heath 20366/32845
Norton North 18225/32845
Norton South 14091/32845
Halton Brook 10933/32845
Halton Lea 10670/32845
Mersey 8521/32845
Halton Castle 7687/32845
Grange (Worst) 7335/32845
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Your Health in Frodsham

If you are thinking of moving to Frodsham, 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 Frodsham 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 West and Chester (Frodsham) 1.21% 4.33%
Knowsley 2.18% 7.29%
Warrington 1.17% 4.19%
Halton 1.7% 6.15%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Frodsham (Best) 22149/32845
Beechwood 10929/32845
Heath 10810/32845
Norton North 7078/32845
Mersey 5416/32845
Grange 4484/32845
Halton Brook 4483/32845
Norton South 2342/32845
Halton Lea 1302/32845
Halton Castle (Worst) 1083/32845
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Deprivation in Frodsham

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 Frodsham. 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
Frodsham (Best) 23547/32845
Beechwood 21503/32845
Heath 17742/32845
Norton North 14813/32845
Halton Brook 6957/32845
Grange 6810/32845
Mersey 6448/32845
Norton South 4566/32845
Halton Lea 2506/32845
Halton Castle (Worst) 2400/32845

Average rent in Frodsham

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Frodsham

If you are thinking of moving to Frodsham, 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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