So you are thinking of moving to Hoylake in Merseyside? 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 Hoylake 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 Hoylake the land of milk and honey or are Birkenhead, Heswall and Wallasey a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Hoylake
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of July 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Hoylake. 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 |
|---|---|
| Leasowe | 71 |
| Moreton | 70 |
| Arrowe Hill | 58 |
| Grange | 20 |
| Newton | 15 |
| Dove Point | 9 |
| Frankby | 9 |
| Greasby | 7 |
| Caldy | 4 |
| Thurstaston | 4 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hoylake. 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 Hoylake. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Leasowe and Moreton East (Best) | 11829/32845 |
| Claughton | 12281/32845 |
| Prenton | 15869/32845 |
| Moreton West and Saughall Massie | 18527/32845 |
| Upton | 19167/32845 |
| Hoylake and Meols | 23070/32845 |
| West Kirby and Thurstaston | 24395/32845 |
| Greasby, Frankby and Irby | 26081/32845 |
| Pensby and Thingwall | 26798/32845 |
| Heswall (Worst) | 28912/32845 |
West Kirby: The Jekyll and Hyde of Wirral
Your Health in Hoylake
If you are thinking of moving to Hoylake, 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 Hoylake 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool | 2.08% | 6.68% | 14.03% | 30.47% | 46.73% |
| Wirral (Hoylake) | 1.73% | 5.77% | 14.29% | 31.92% | 46.29% |
| Sefton | 1.62% | 5.68% | 14.84% | 32.55% | 45.32% |
| Knowsley | 2.18% | 7.29% | 14.68% | 29.82% | 46.03% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Hoylake. 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 Hoylake. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Pensby and Thingwall (Best) | 11087/32845 |
| Greasby, Frankby and Irby | 11816/32845 |
| Hoylake and Meols | 12908/32845 |
| West Kirby and Thurstaston | 13637/32845 |
| Heswall | 16377/32845 |
| Claughton | 4135/32845 |
| Leasowe and Moreton East | 4653/32845 |
| Upton | 4973/32845 |
| Moreton West and Saughall Massie | 6398/32845 |
| Prenton (Worst) | 6424/32845 |
One fine Sunday in Merseyside
Deprivation in Hoylake
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 Hoylake. 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 |
|---|---|
| Upton (Best) | 10846/32845 |
| Prenton | 12173/32845 |
| Moreton West and Saughall Massie | 14046/32845 |
| Pensby and Thingwall | 20711/32845 |
| Hoylake and Meols | 21898/32845 |
| Greasby, Frankby and Irby | 22812/32845 |
| West Kirby and Thurstaston | 23217/32845 |
| Heswall | 27095/32845 |
| Leasowe and Moreton East | 8116/32845 |
| Claughton (Worst) | 9313/32845 |
Liverpool – More like Live-in-stool
Birkenhead: full of losers and utterly ruthless backstabbers
Wavertree, Liverpool: in recent years its gone down the pisser
Parr, St Helens – Personally Antagonising, Really Repulsive
Runcorn; a big ****** blister just outside Liverpool
Southport – At Least Blackpool Has A Selling Point
Kirkby – Merseyside (what a sh*thole!)
St Helens – A sordid little grief hole
Waterloo, Liverpool is allegedly a nice place to live