Is Kidsgrove, Staffordshire a nice place to live?

Is Kidsgrove a nice place to live or is Kidsgrove rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Kidsgrove 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 Kidsgrove truly a nice place to live, or are Alsager, Biddulph and Burslem a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Kidsgrove?

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 Kidsgrove. 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
Newchapel 65
Packmoor 65
Acres Nook 45
Kidsgrove 45
Hardings Wood 45
Red Bull 36
Clough Hall 34
Stadmorslow 18
Hall Green 18
Dales Green 16

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Kidsgrove. 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 Kidsgrove 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 Alsager ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Alsager (Best) 25674/32845
Newchapel & Mow Cop 20693/32845
Biddulph West 17881/32845
Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe 17687/32845
Talke & Butt Lane 15910/32845
Bradeley and Chell Heath 13088/32845
Great Chell and Packmoor 11384/32845
Little Chell and Stanfield 6297/32845
Goldenhill and Sandyford 5522/32845
Tunstall (Worst) 3809/32845
Reader Opinion:

Kazakhstan to Crewe - no thank you!

Your Health in Kidsgrove

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Stoke-on-Trent 1.87% 6.17%
Shropshire 1.13% 3.91%
Newcastle-under-Lyme (Kidsgrove) 1.4% 5.1%
Staffordshire Moorlands 1.37% 4.55%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Biddulph West (Best) 20156/32845
Alsager 20052/32845
Newchapel & Mow Cop 13997/32845
Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe 9301/32845
Talke & Butt Lane 8811/32845
Great Chell and Packmoor 5245/32845
Little Chell and Stanfield 3557/32845
Goldenhill and Sandyford 3213/32845
Bradeley and Chell Heath 3144/32845
Tunstall (Worst) 3036/32845
Reader Opinion:

Burslem, the "Mother" town of Stoke

Deprivation in Kidsgrove

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 Kidsgrove. 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
Alsager (Best) 25825/32845
Biddulph West 22032/32845
Newchapel & Mow Cop 20437/32845
Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe 14824/32845
Talke & Butt Lane 12320/32845
Great Chell and Packmoor 8673/32845
Bradeley and Chell Heath 6675/32845
Goldenhill and Sandyford 5692/32845
Little Chell and Stanfield 5420/32845
Tunstall (Worst) 3660/32845

Average rent in Kidsgrove

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Kidsgrove

If you are thinking of moving to Kidsgrove, 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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