Is Radcliffe, Greater Manchester a nice place to live?

Is Radcliffe a nice place to live or is Radcliffe rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Radcliffe 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 Radcliffe truly a nice place to live, or are Kearsley, Prestwich and Whitefield a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Radcliffe?

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 Radcliffe. 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
Radcliffe 0
Chapel Field 0
Blackford Bridge 0
Black Lane 0
Redvales 0
Irwell 0
Fishpool 0
Unsworth 0
Hollins 0
Halfway Houses 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Radcliffe. 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 Radcliffe 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 Tottington ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Tottington (Best) 18862/32845
Church 15700/32845
Unsworth 12878/32845
Pilkington Park 11678/32845
Besses 8969/32845
St Mary's 8012/32845
Redvales 7862/32845
Radcliffe West 7440/32845
Radcliffe East 5185/32845
East (Worst) 2601/32845
Reader Opinion:

Radcliffe is quickly turning into a ghetto

Your Health in Radcliffe

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Salford 1.7% 5.87%
Bolton 1.4% 5.23%
Rochdale 1.68% 5.88%
Bury (Radcliffe) 1.26% 4.61%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Tottington (Best) 17038/32845
Unsworth 15567/32845
Church 15511/32845
Pilkington Park 14088/32845
St Mary's 10681/32845
Redvales 9874/32845
Besses 9342/32845
Radcliffe West 8785/32845
Radcliffe East 7325/32845
East (Worst) 6303/32845
Reader Opinion:

Rochdale, gain an understanding of this excremental town

Deprivation in Radcliffe

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 Radcliffe. 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
Tottington (Best) 22389/32845
Church 21162/32845
Unsworth 18968/32845
Pilkington Park 17164/32845
St Mary's 13141/32845
Besses 10935/32845
Radcliffe West 10634/32845
Redvales 9534/32845
Radcliffe East 8778/32845
East (Worst) 4843/32845

Average rent in Radcliffe

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Radcliffe

If you are thinking of moving to Radcliffe, 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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