Is Sale, Greater Manchester a nice place to live?

Is Sale a nice place to live or is Sale rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Sale 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 Sale truly a nice place to live, or are Altrincham, Eccles and Stretford a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Sale?

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 Sale. 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
Chorlton-cum-Hardy 0
Barlow Moor 0
Ashton upon Mersey 0
Sale 0
Brooklands 0
Timperley 0
Gorse Hill 0
Firswood 0
Baguley 0
Trafford Park 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Sale. 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 Sale 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 Timperley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Timperley (Best) 24671/32845
Brooklands 22575/32845
Broadheath 21467/32845
Ashton upon Mersey 18750/32845
Priory 16514/32845
Village 16011/32845
St Mary's 15565/32845
Sale Moor 13613/32845
Stretford 9125/32845
Brooklands (Worst) 6108/32845
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Your Health in Sale

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Manchester 1.72% 5.37%
Wigan 1.49% 5.7%
Stockport 1.21% 4.41%
Trafford (Sale) 1.13% 4.09%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Timperley (Best) 24082/32845
Brooklands 23093/32845
Priory 21576/32845
Broadheath 20486/32845
Ashton upon Mersey 19334/32845
Village 17294/32845
Sale Moor 17119/32845
St Mary's 16934/32845
Stretford 10759/32845
Brooklands (Worst) 3014/32845
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Deprivation in Sale

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 Sale. 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
Timperley (Best) 29484/32845
Brooklands 28141/32845
Broadheath 25251/32845
Ashton upon Mersey 24517/32845
Priory 23506/32845
St Mary's 20685/32845
Sale Moor 19849/32845
Village 19793/32845
Stretford 11865/32845
Brooklands (Worst) 5946/32845

Average rent in Sale

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Sale

If you are thinking of moving to Sale, 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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