Is Partington, Greater Manchester a nice place to live?

Is Partington a nice place to live or is Partington rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Partington 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 Partington truly a nice place to live, or are Altrincham, Cadishead and Irlam a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Partington?

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 Partington. 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
Warburton 5
Cadishead 2
Irlam 2
Partington 1
Mossbrow 1
Hollins Green 0
Hollinfare 0
Carrington 0
Dunham Woodhouses 0
Crofts Bank 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Partington. 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 Partington 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 Birchwood ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Birchwood (Best) 23822/32845
Lymm South 22640/32845
Flixton 22181/32845
Broadheath 21467/32845
Davyhulme West 21352/32845
Bowdon 20512/32845
Cadishead 18325/32845
St Mary's 15565/32845
Irlam 15482/32845
Bucklow-St Martins (Worst) 10221/32845
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Your Health in Partington

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Wigan 1.49% 5.7%
Salford 1.7% 5.87%
Trafford (Partington) 1.13% 4.09%
Warrington 1.17% 4.19%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Bowdon (Best) 25789/32845
Lymm South 24237/32845
Broadheath 20486/32845
St Mary's 16934/32845
Davyhulme West 16504/32845
Flixton 14621/32845
Birchwood 8824/32845
Cadishead 7891/32845
Bucklow-St Martins 7670/32845
Irlam (Worst) 6905/32845
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Deprivation in Partington

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 Partington. 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
Lymm South (Best) 28210/32845
Bowdon 26978/32845
Broadheath 25251/32845
Davyhulme West 22444/32845
Flixton 21469/32845
St Mary's 20685/32845
Birchwood 16188/32845
Cadishead 13920/32845
Irlam 12343/32845
Bucklow-St Martins (Worst) 10085/32845

Average rent in Partington

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Partington

If you are thinking of moving to Partington, 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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