Moving to Runcorn, Cheshire? What you need to know

So you are thinking of moving to Runcorn in Cheshire? 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 Runcorn 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 Runcorn the land of milk and honey or are Frodsham, Widnes and Halewood a lot better? Time to find out.

Crime in Runcorn

Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of February 2021 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Runcorn. 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
Halton View	113
Crow Wood	113
Farnworth	113
Halton Brook	111
Appleton	98
Brookvale	65
Palacefields	65
Higher Runcorn	64
Beechwood	59
Hale Bank	14

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Halton Lea (Best)	10670/32845
Halton Brook	10933/32845
Ditton	12411/32845
Heath	20366/32845
Beechwood	27596/32845
Kingsway	4469/32845
Riverside	5978/32845
Grange	7335/32845
Halton Castle	7687/32845
Mersey (Worst)	8521/32845

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Your Health in Runcorn

If you are thinking of moving to Runcorn, 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 Runcorn 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
Knowsley	2.18%	7.29%	14.68%	29.82%	46.03%
St. Helens	1.79%	6.48%	14.94%	31.93%	44.85%
Warrington	1.17%	4.19%	12.09%	32.75%	49.81%
Halton (Runcorn)	1.7%	6.15%	13.92%	31.57%	46.67%

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

Ward	Average rank in England
Heath (Best)	10810/32845
Halton Castle	1083/32845
Beechwood	10929/32845
Halton Lea	1302/32845
Riverside	1542/32845
Halton Brook	4483/32845
Grange	4484/32845
Kingsway	4907/32845
Mersey	5416/32845
Ditton (Worst)	6328/32845

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Deprivation in Runcorn

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 Runcorn. 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
Ditton (Best)	10381/32845
Heath	17742/32845
Beechwood	21503/32845
Halton Castle	2400/32845
Halton Lea	2506/32845
Riverside	4554/32845
Mersey	6448/32845
Grange	6810/32845
Halton Brook	6957/32845
Kingsway (Worst)	7376/32845

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