So you are thinking of moving to Penkridge 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 Penkridge 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 Penkridge the land of milk and honey or are Cannock, Fenton and Hednesford a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Penkridge
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 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.
Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
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Boscomoor | 0 |
Penkridge | 0 |
Longridge | 0 |
Pillaton | 0 |
Dunston | 0 |
Dunston Heath | 0 |
Acton Trussell | 0 |
Bickford | 0 |
Mitton | 0 |
Coppenhall | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Penkridge. 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 Penkridge. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Manor (Best) | 14241/32845 |
Cannock North | 16070/32845 |
Penkridge West | 16523/32845 |
Huntington and Hatherton | 16648/32845 |
Cannock West | 17481/32845 |
Wheaton Aston, Bishopswood and Lapley | 17761/32845 |
Penkridge South East | 22794/32845 |
Hednesford Green Heath | 24281/32845 |
Brewood and Coven | 25061/32845 |
Penkridge North East and Acton Trussell (Worst) | 27309/32845 |
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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;
Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
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Walsall | 1.68% | 5.56% | 15.47% | 35.14% | 42.15% |
Wolverhampton | 1.66% | 5.53% | 15.67% | 35.34% | 41.79% |
Cannock Chase | 1.52% | 5.25% | 14.46% | 35.02% | 43.74% |
South Staffordshire (Penkridge) | 1.27% | 4.1% | 13.78% | 35.5% | 45.34% |
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 |
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Manor (Best) | 13277/32845 |
Huntington and Hatherton | 15825/32845 |
Cannock West | 18784/32845 |
Penkridge South East | 21004/32845 |
Hednesford Green Heath | 21321/32845 |
Penkridge West | 21752/32845 |
Brewood and Coven | 23619/32845 |
Wheaton Aston, Bishopswood and Lapley | 25143/32845 |
Penkridge North East and Acton Trussell | 27368/32845 |
Cannock North (Worst) | 8656/32845 |
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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 |
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Huntington and Hatherton (Best) | 14309/32845 |
Manor | 16271/32845 |
Wheaton Aston, Bishopswood and Lapley | 19241/32845 |
Penkridge West | 20559/32845 |
Cannock West | 22169/32845 |
Penkridge North East and Acton Trussell | 22335/32845 |
Penkridge South East | 22988/32845 |
Hednesford Green Heath | 23518/32845 |
Brewood and Coven | 24634/32845 |
Cannock North (Worst) | 6465/32845 |
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