So you are thinking of moving to Northwich in Cheshire? 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 Northwich 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 Northwich the land of milk and honey or are Knutsford, Middlewich and Winsford a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Northwich
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 Northwich. 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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Brookvale | 74 |
Palacefields | 74 |
Greenbank | 31 |
Newtonia | 31 |
Hartfordbeach | 15 |
Keckwick | 8 |
Hartford | 8 |
Hollinsgreen | 4 |
Moore | 2 |
Little Bollington | 1 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Northwich. 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 Northwich. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Winsford Wharton (Best) | 10572/32845 |
Northwich Witton | 11991/32845 |
Northwich Winnington & Castle | 16427/32845 |
Winsford Over & Verdin | 17265/32845 |
Northwich Leftwich | 20510/32845 |
Rudheath | 22230/32845 |
High Legh | 22683/32845 |
Weaver & Cuddington | 23403/32845 |
Hartford & Greenbank | 24197/32845 |
Davenham, Moulton & Kingsmead (Worst) | 28402/32845 |
Northwich nestles snugly in what is usually regarded as posh and leafy Cheshire
Your Health in Northwich
If you are thinking of moving to Northwich, 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 Northwich 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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Cheshire West and Chester (Northwich) | 1.21% | 4.33% | 12.93% | 33.06% | 48.47% |
Cheshire East | 1.06% | 3.85% | 12.78% | 33.25% | 49.06% |
Warrington | 1.17% | 4.19% | 12.09% | 32.75% | 49.81% |
Halton | 1.7% | 6.15% | 13.92% | 31.57% | 46.67% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Northwich. 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 Northwich. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Winsford Over & Verdin (Best) | 10291/32845 |
Northwich Winnington & Castle | 12206/32845 |
Northwich Leftwich | 12485/32845 |
Weaver & Cuddington | 18887/32845 |
Hartford & Greenbank | 19101/32845 |
Davenham, Moulton & Kingsmead | 21413/32845 |
High Legh | 25309/32845 |
Northwich Witton | 7698/32845 |
Winsford Wharton | 7807/32845 |
Rudheath (Worst) | 9198/32845 |
Nantwich: the place that time forgot
Deprivation in Northwich
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 Northwich. 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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Rudheath (Best) | 12390/32845 |
Winsford Over & Verdin | 13653/32845 |
Northwich Winnington & Castle | 15006/32845 |
Northwich Leftwich | 15118/32845 |
High Legh | 21410/32845 |
Weaver & Cuddington | 21497/32845 |
Hartford & Greenbank | 24955/32845 |
Davenham, Moulton & Kingsmead | 26746/32845 |
Northwich Witton | 7670/32845 |
Winsford Wharton (Worst) | 9706/32845 |
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