So you are thinking of moving to Rugeley 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 Rugeley 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 Rugeley the land of milk and honey or are Burntwood, Cannock and Hednesford a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Rugeley
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 Rugeley. 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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Rugeley | 0 |
Colton | 0 |
Brereton | 0 |
Etchinghill | 0 |
Rake End | 0 |
Breretonhill | 0 |
Bishton | 0 |
Armitage | 0 |
Brereton Cross | 0 |
Mavesyn Ridware | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Rugeley. 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 Rugeley. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Hednesford North (Best) | 13388/32845 |
Western Springs | 13952/32845 |
Hagley | 14746/32845 |
Brereton and Ravenhill | 19533/32845 |
Etching Hill and The Heath | 20306/32845 |
Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury | 22492/32845 |
Hednesford Green Heath | 24281/32845 |
Rawnsley | 25339/32845 |
Colton & the Ridwares | 25685/32845 |
Haywood & Hixon (Worst) | 27286/32845 |
Walsall: the garbage town of England
Your Health in Rugeley
If you are thinking of moving to Rugeley, 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 Rugeley 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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Stafford | 1.14% | 3.91% | 13.23% | 35.59% | 46.13% |
Cannock Chase (Rugeley) | 1.52% | 5.25% | 14.46% | 35.02% | 43.74% |
East Staffordshire | 1.09% | 3.85% | 13.47% | 35.72% | 45.86% |
Lichfield | 1.19% | 3.93% | 13.17% | 34.79% | 46.92% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Rugeley. 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 Rugeley. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
Ward | Average rank in England |
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Hagley (Best) | 12602/32845 |
Brereton and Ravenhill | 13170/32845 |
Western Springs | 13535/32845 |
Rawnsley | 13551/32845 |
Etching Hill and The Heath | 15706/32845 |
Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury | 16142/32845 |
Hednesford Green Heath | 21321/32845 |
Haywood & Hixon | 24611/32845 |
Colton & the Ridwares | 26844/32845 |
Hednesford North (Worst) | 9422/32845 |
Rugeley is the town equivalent of Ryanair
Deprivation in Rugeley
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 Rugeley. 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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Hagley (Best) | 12630/32845 |
Brereton and Ravenhill | 15374/32845 |
Western Springs | 15480/32845 |
Rawnsley | 16809/32845 |
Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury | 19121/32845 |
Etching Hill and The Heath | 19669/32845 |
Hednesford Green Heath | 23518/32845 |
Colton & the Ridwares | 24192/32845 |
Haywood & Hixon | 28422/32845 |
Hednesford North (Worst) | 9498/32845 |
Rugeley is the town equivalent of Ryanair
Stoke-on-Trent a.k.a Joke-on-Trent
Burslem, the “Mother” town of Stoke
Wombourne, the **** of South Staffordshire
Stoke-on-Trent, I escaped this terminally depressed, squalid excuse for a City
Stoke-on-Trent… Nuke it !!!!
Leek: Lock your windows and don’t make eye contact
Stafford truly is the new Crewe and then some!
Leek… Don’t go near it!!!