So you are thinking of moving to Hednesford in Staffordshire? 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 Hednesford 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 Hednesford the land of milk and honey or are Burntwood, Cannock and Rugeley a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Hednesford
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 Hednesford. 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 |
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Rumer Hill | 5 |
Cannock | 3 |
Blackfords | 3 |
Church Hill | 0 |
Hednesford | 0 |
Green Heath | 0 |
Rawnsley | 0 |
Heath Hayes | 0 |
Oldfallow | 0 |
Cannock Wood | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hednesford. 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 Hednesford. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Hednesford North (Best) | 13388/32845 |
Cannock South | 14375/32845 |
Cannock East | 14669/32845 |
Cannock North | 16070/32845 |
Cannock West | 17481/32845 |
Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury | 22492/32845 |
Hednesford South | 22842/32845 |
Hednesford Green Heath | 24281/32845 |
Rawnsley | 25339/32845 |
Hawks Green (Worst) | 26240/32845 |
Walsall: the garbage town of England
Your Health in Hednesford
If you are thinking of moving to Hednesford, 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 Hednesford 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 |
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Walsall | 1.68% | 5.56% | 15.47% | 35.14% | 42.15% |
Wolverhampton | 1.66% | 5.53% | 15.67% | 35.34% | 41.79% |
Cannock Chase (Hednesford) | 1.52% | 5.25% | 14.46% | 35.02% | 43.74% |
Lichfield | 1.19% | 3.93% | 13.17% | 34.79% | 46.92% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Hednesford. 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 Hednesford. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Cannock South (Best) | 10351/32845 |
Rawnsley | 13551/32845 |
Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury | 16142/32845 |
Cannock West | 18784/32845 |
Hednesford South | 20584/32845 |
Hawks Green | 20860/32845 |
Hednesford Green Heath | 21321/32845 |
Cannock North | 8656/32845 |
Cannock East | 9339/32845 |
Hednesford North (Worst) | 9422/32845 |
Wolverhampton: the hidden wonders of trash
Deprivation in Hednesford
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 Hednesford. 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 |
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Rawnsley (Best) | 16809/32845 |
Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury | 19121/32845 |
Cannock West | 22169/32845 |
Hednesford South | 23289/32845 |
Hednesford Green Heath | 23518/32845 |
Hawks Green | 25313/32845 |
Cannock North | 6465/32845 |
Cannock South | 9005/32845 |
Cannock East | 9162/32845 |
Hednesford North (Worst) | 9498/32845 |
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