So you are thinking of moving to Newcastle under Lyme in Staffordshire? 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 Newcastle under Lyme 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 Newcastle under Lyme the land of milk and honey or are Burslem, Kidsgrove and Longton a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Newcastle under Lyme
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Newcastle under Lyme. 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 |
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Shelton | 2 |
Hartshill | 1 |
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 0 |
Basford | 0 |
The Brampton | 0 |
May Bank | 0 |
Cross Heath | 0 |
Etruria | 0 |
Porthill | 0 |
Knutton | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Newcastle under Lyme. 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 Newcastle under Lyme. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Town (Best) | 10132/32845 |
Silverdale | 10249/32845 |
Knutton | 12410/32845 |
Hartshill and Basford | 14130/32845 |
Wolstanton | 15844/32845 |
Clayton | 17209/32845 |
May Bank | 17687/32845 |
Thistleberry | 19522/32845 |
Westlands | 20132/32845 |
Cross Heath (Worst) | 9094/32845 |
The main industry in South Shields is shoplifting
Your Health in Newcastle under Lyme
If you are thinking of moving to Newcastle under Lyme, 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 Newcastle under Lyme 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 |
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Stoke-on-Trent | 1.87% | 6.17% | 15.33% | 34.66% | 41.97% |
Shropshire | 1.13% | 3.91% | 13.55% | 34.92% | 46.49% |
Newcastle-under-Lyme (Newcastle under Lyme) | 1.4% | 5.1% | 14.37% | 34.48% | 44.65% |
Staffordshire Moorlands | 1.37% | 4.55% | 14.86% | 35.06% | 44.15% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Newcastle under Lyme. 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 Newcastle under Lyme. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Clayton (Best) | 11208/32845 |
Thistleberry | 12028/32845 |
Wolstanton | 12609/32845 |
May Bank | 12960/32845 |
Westlands | 15127/32845 |
Knutton | 4047/32845 |
Town | 5451/32845 |
Cross Heath | 5623/32845 |
Silverdale | 6226/32845 |
Hartshill and Basford (Worst) | 6687/32845 |
Burslem, the "Mother" town of Stoke
Deprivation in Newcastle under Lyme
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 Newcastle under Lyme. 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 |
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Silverdale (Best) | 10186/32845 |
Hartshill and Basford | 12599/32845 |
Clayton | 17815/32845 |
Wolstanton | 18213/32845 |
Thistleberry | 18753/32845 |
May Bank | 18888/32845 |
Westlands | 21923/32845 |
Knutton | 7345/32845 |
Cross Heath | 7896/32845 |
Town (Worst) | 9365/32845 |
Stoke on Trent – the place the Government forgot
Stoke-on-Trent, I escaped this terminally depressed, squalid excuse for a City
Stoke On Trent – A place devoid of intelligence
Leek: just like any other midlands town, just don’t expect a McDonalds
Cannock: What a hole
Wombourne – lovely village with some buts…
Stoke-on-Trent… Nuke it !!!!
Stoke-on-Trent a.k.a Joke-on-Trent
Burslem, the “Mother” town of Stoke