Is Hyde, Greater Manchester a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Hyde?

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 Hyde. 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
Castle Hill 4
Audenshaw 3
Hooley Hill 3
Tame 2
Newton 0
Gee Cross 0
Backbower 0
Dukinfield 0
Broadbottom 0
Matley 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hyde. 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 Hyde 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 Denton West ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Denton West (Best) 13215/32845
Stalybridge South 9693/32845
Hyde Newton 9557/32845
Bredbury and Woodley 9150/32845
Hyde Werneth 7798/32845
Denton South 7572/32845
Audenshaw 7065/32845
Hyde Godley 6057/32845
St Peter's 5966/32845
Denton North East (Worst) 5423/32845
Reader Opinion:

Ashton under lyne, into the mouth of madness and straight out of the other end

Your Health in Hyde

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Manchester 1.72% 5.37%
Tameside (Hyde) 1.6% 5.7%
Oldham 1.52% 5.42%
Stockport 1.21% 4.41%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Stalybridge South (Best) 10851/32845
Bredbury and Woodley 10027/32845
Denton West 8353/32845
Denton North East 7758/32845
Hyde Werneth 7477/32845
Audenshaw 7472/32845
Hyde Newton 6733/32845
Denton South 5112/32845
Hyde Godley 4910/32845
St Peter's (Worst) 3130/32845
Reader Opinion:

Gorton - visit soon! (but watch your gold, your phone, your car, your shoes...)

Deprivation in Hyde

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 Hyde. 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
Stalybridge South (Best) 14892/32845
Denton West 14869/32845
Bredbury and Woodley 13999/32845
Hyde Werneth 11559/32845
Audenshaw 11233/32845
Hyde Newton 10457/32845
Denton North East 10088/32845
Denton South 7566/32845
Hyde Godley 6562/32845
St Peter's (Worst) 4388/32845

Average rent in Hyde

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Hyde

If you are thinking of moving to Hyde, 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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