So you are thinking of moving to Manchester in Greater Manchester? 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 Manchester 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 Manchester the land of milk and honey or are Salford, Tyldsley and Failsworth a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Manchester
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of February 2021 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Manchester. 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 |
|---|---|
| Strangeways | 5 |
| Brunswick | 3 |
| Ancoats | 3 |
| Manchester | 3 |
| Cheetham / Cheetham Hill | 3 |
| Miles Platting | 2 |
| Collyhurst | 2 |
| Ardwick | 1 |
| Beswick | 1 |
| Lower Broughton | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Manchester. 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 Manchester. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Clifford (Best) | 11605/32845 |
| Piccadilly | 1324/32845 |
| Langworthy | 1708/32845 |
| Cheetham | 2426/32845 |
| Ancoats & Beswick | 3054/32845 |
| Broughton | 3328/32845 |
| Deansgate | 3409/32845 |
| Ardwick | 4537/32845 |
| Hulme | 5721/32845 |
| Harpurhey (Worst) | 765/32845 |
Reddish: The Ghetto of Greater Manchester
Your Health in Manchester
If you are thinking of moving to Manchester, 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 Manchester 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester (Manchester) | 1.72% | 5.37% | 12.45% | 31.69% | 48.76% |
| Tameside | 1.6% | 5.7% | 15.05% | 33.7% | 43.96% |
| Oldham | 1.52% | 5.42% | 14.57% | 33.34% | 45.14% |
| Trafford | 1.13% | 4.09% | 12.16% | 31.64% | 50.97% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Manchester. 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 Manchester. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Langworthy (Best) | 1415/32845 |
| Ardwick | 1863/32845 |
| Harpurhey | 1875/32845 |
| Ancoats & Beswick | 2155/32845 |
| Broughton | 2277/32845 |
| Hulme | 3561/32845 |
| Cheetham | 4543/32845 |
| Piccadilly | 6509/32845 |
| Clifford | 8351/32845 |
| Deansgate (Worst) | 9134/32845 |
Stretford, parades of fast food joints & tatty money laundering shops
Deprivation in Manchester
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 Manchester. 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 |
|---|---|
| Deansgate (Best) | 11483/32845 |
| Harpurhey | 1857/32845 |
| Langworthy | 2674/32845 |
| Broughton | 4031/32845 |
| Cheetham | 4441/32845 |
| Ardwick | 4696/32845 |
| Ancoats & Beswick | 6035/32845 |
| Clifford | 7102/32845 |
| Hulme | 8591/32845 |
| Piccadilly (Worst) | 9818/32845 |
Mossley, home of the ‘Who’s got the most toes competition’
Clayton, Manchester, who needs soaps when you have this sh*t?
Withington, Manchester – The area that we all just gave up on
Brinnington, Stockport, aka Brinny
Bolton… beyond the term “dreadful”
Leigh: A Hive of Villainy in Lesser Manchester
Wilmslow – Hollywood of the North
Rochdale – Welcome to the cesspit of the universe
I fear for the future of Farnworth