Is Penkridge, Staffordshire a nice place to live?

Is Penkridge a nice place to live or is Penkridge rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Penkridge 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 Penkridge truly a nice place to live, or are Cannock, Fenton and Hednesford a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Penkridge?

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 Penkridge. 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
Boscomoor 15
Penkridge 15
Pillaton 7
Longridge 4
Acton Trussell 2
Dunston 2
Coppenhall 2
Dunston Heath 1
Bickford 0
Mitton 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Penkridge. 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 Penkridge 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 Penkridge North East and Acton Trussell ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Penkridge North East and Acton Trussell (Best) 27309/32845
Brewood and Coven 25061/32845
Hednesford Green Heath 24281/32845
Penkridge South East 22794/32845
Wheaton Aston, Bishopswood and Lapley 17761/32845
Cannock West 17481/32845
Huntington and Hatherton 16648/32845
Penkridge West 16523/32845
Cannock North 16070/32845
Manor (Worst) 14241/32845
Reader Opinion:

Stoke-on-trent, more like Sh*thole-on-trent

Your Health in Penkridge

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Walsall 1.68% 5.56%
Wolverhampton 1.66% 5.53%
Cannock Chase 1.52% 5.25%
South Staffordshire (Penkridge) 1.27% 4.1%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Penkridge North East and Acton Trussell (Best) 27368/32845
Wheaton Aston, Bishopswood and Lapley 25143/32845
Brewood and Coven 23619/32845
Penkridge West 21752/32845
Hednesford Green Heath 21321/32845
Penkridge South East 21004/32845
Cannock West 18784/32845
Huntington and Hatherton 15825/32845
Manor 13277/32845
Cannock North (Worst) 8656/32845
Reader Opinion:

Cannock: What a hole

Deprivation in Penkridge

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 Penkridge. 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
Brewood and Coven (Best) 24634/32845
Hednesford Green Heath 23518/32845
Penkridge South East 22988/32845
Penkridge North East and Acton Trussell 22335/32845
Cannock West 22169/32845
Penkridge West 20559/32845
Wheaton Aston, Bishopswood and Lapley 19241/32845
Manor 16271/32845
Huntington and Hatherton 14309/32845
Cannock North (Worst) 6465/32845

Average rent in Penkridge

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Penkridge

If you are thinking of moving to Penkridge, 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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