Is Malpas, Cheshire a nice place to live?

Is Malpas a nice place to live or is Malpas rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Malpas 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 Malpas truly a nice place to live, or are Whitchurch, Overton on Dee and Rhosnesni a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Malpas?

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 Malpas. 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
Chemistry 21
Brooklands 7
Lower Threapwood 1
Tallarn Green 1
Hall Green 0
The Chequer 0
Little Green 0
Painters Green 0
Redbrook 0
Little Arowry 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Malpas. 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 Malpas 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 Farndon ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Farndon (Best) 26353/32845
Malpas 22054/32845
Wrenbury 21932/32845
Whitchurch South 19728/32845
Whitchurch North 17633/32845
Overton 1722/32845
Bronington 1518/32845
Holt 550/32845
Whitegate 203/32845
Queensway (Worst) 17/32845
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Your Health in Malpas

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Cheshire West and Chester (Malpas) 1.21% 4.33%
Cheshire East 1.06% 3.85%
Flintshire 1.25% 4.44%
Wrexham 1.37% 4.84%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Farndon (Best) 26697/32845
Wrenbury 25599/32845
Malpas 20552/32845
Whitchurch North 17872/32845
Whitchurch South 17254/32845
Overton 1593/32845
Bronington 1530/32845
Holt 1365/32845
Whitegate 760/32845
Queensway (Worst) 123/32845

Deprivation in Malpas

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 Malpas. 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
Farndon (Best) 23044/32845
Malpas 19147/32845
Wrenbury 15849/32845
Whitchurch North 15381/32845
Whitchurch South 13928/32845
Overton 1480/32845
Bronington 1367/32845
Holt 1245/32845
Whitegate 765/32845
Queensway (Worst) 45/32845

Average rent in Malpas

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Malpas

If you are thinking of moving to Malpas, 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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