Is Perry Crofts, Staffordshire a nice place to live?

Is Perry Crofts a nice place to live or is Perry Crofts rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Perry Crofts 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 Perry Crofts truly a nice place to live, or are Fazeley, Tamworth and Coal Pool a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Perry Crofts?

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 Perry Crofts. 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
Tamworth 99
Kettlebrook 85
Bolehall 85
Borough Park 75
Amington 75
Anker 68
Bitterscote 65
The Alders 38
Fazeley 28
Comberford 4

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Perry Crofts. 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 Perry Crofts 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 Mease Valley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Mease Valley (Best) 29087/32845
Whittington & Streethay 26147/32845
Amington 20199/32845
Fazeley 18765/32845
Mercian 17570/32845
Spital 15527/32845
Bolehall 14322/32845
Castle 12503/32845
Belgrave 11939/32845
Glascote (Worst) 8444/32845
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Your Health in Perry Crofts

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Lichfield 1.19% 3.93%
North West Leicestershire 1.15% 3.99%
Tamworth (Perry Crofts) 1.31% 4.43%
North Warwickshire 1.38% 4.6%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Mease Valley (Best) 26646/32845
Whittington & Streethay 22789/32845
Fazeley 14683/32845
Mercian 12304/32845
Amington 12203/32845
Spital 12024/32845
Belgrave 11976/32845
Castle 11859/32845
Bolehall 11683/32845
Glascote (Worst) 8316/32845
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Deprivation in Perry Crofts

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 Perry Crofts. 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
Whittington & Streethay (Best) 25532/32845
Mease Valley 21122/32845
Spital 17482/32845
Mercian 17478/32845
Amington 16303/32845
Castle 15638/32845
Bolehall 14616/32845
Fazeley 13801/32845
Belgrave 12557/32845
Glascote (Worst) 8533/32845

Average rent in Perry Crofts

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Perry Crofts

If you are thinking of moving to Perry Crofts, 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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