Is Hadfield, Derbyshire a nice place to live?

Is Hadfield a nice place to live or is Hadfield rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Hadfield 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 Hadfield truly a nice place to live, or are Glossop, Hyde and Stalybridge a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Hadfield?

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 Hadfield. 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
Higher Dinting 32
Old Glossop 30
Hadfield 23
Hobroyd 23
Padfield 19
Brookfield 19
Tintwistle 16
Hollingworth 7
Landslow Green 0
Warhill 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hadfield. 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 Hadfield 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 Simmondley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Simmondley (Best) 30956/32845
Old Glossop 28198/32845
Dinting 27799/32845
Hadfield South 27167/32845
Hadfield North 26372/32845
Padfield 24846/32845
Gamesley 24202/32845
St John's 21298/32845
Tintwistle 18340/32845
Longdendale (Worst) 8084/32845
Reader Opinion:

Padfield: Gentrified urbanites and curtain twitchers

Your Health in Hadfield

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Tameside 1.6% 5.7%
Oldham 1.52% 5.42%
Stockport 1.21% 4.41%
High Peak (Hadfield) 1.12% 4.07%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Simmondley (Best) 21786/32845
Old Glossop 19334/32845
Dinting 18881/32845
St John's 18395/32845
Padfield 16082/32845
Tintwistle 15283/32845
Hadfield South 14962/32845
Hadfield North 12605/32845
Longdendale 5910/32845
Gamesley (Worst) 2305/32845
Reader Opinion:

Reddish: The Ghetto of Greater Manchester

Deprivation in Hadfield

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 Hadfield. 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
Simmondley (Best) 30158/32845
St John's 25216/32845
Dinting 25196/32845
Old Glossop 24101/32845
Hadfield South 21851/32845
Padfield 19106/32845
Tintwistle 15518/32845
Hadfield North 13154/32845
Longdendale 9289/32845
Gamesley (Worst) 1825/32845

Average rent in Hadfield

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Hadfield

If you are thinking of moving to Hadfield, 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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