Is Sandbach, Cheshire a nice place to live?

Is Sandbach a nice place to live or is Sandbach rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Sandbach 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 Sandbach truly a nice place to live, or are Alsager, Crewe and Middlewich a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Sandbach?

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 Sandbach. 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
Crewe 170
Butt Lane 31
Hall Green 18
Barthomley 3
Church Lawton 2
Newtonia 1
Foxley 1
Elworth 0
The Bank 0
Hollinsgreen 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Sandbach. 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 Sandbach 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 Haslington ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Haslington (Best) 28879/32845
Sandbach Elworth 25782/32845
Leighton 25683/32845
Sandbach Ettiley Heath and Wheelock 23149/32845
Shakerley 22546/32845
Brereton Rural 21939/32845
Sandbach Heath and East 21744/32845
Sandbach Town 20573/32845
Crewe North 11218/32845
Crewe Central (Worst) 3361/32845
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Your Health in Sandbach

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Cheshire East (Sandbach) 1.06% 3.85%
Shropshire 1.13% 3.91%
Newcastle-under-Lyme 1.4% 5.1%
Staffordshire Moorlands 1.37% 4.55%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Leighton (Best) 24329/32845
Haslington 23253/32845
Brereton Rural 22088/32845
Sandbach Elworth 20226/32845
Sandbach Ettiley Heath and Wheelock 19020/32845
Sandbach Town 16714/32845
Shakerley 15467/32845
Sandbach Heath and East 15066/32845
Crewe North 8935/32845
Crewe Central (Worst) 6223/32845
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Deprivation in Sandbach

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 Sandbach. 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
Sandbach Elworth (Best) 27721/32845
Haslington 27313/32845
Leighton 25959/32845
Sandbach Ettiley Heath and Wheelock 24439/32845
Sandbach Town 22328/32845
Sandbach Heath and East 22148/32845
Brereton Rural 18186/32845
Shakerley 17081/32845
Crewe North 10733/32845
Crewe Central (Worst) 5076/32845

Average rent in Sandbach

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Sandbach

If you are thinking of moving to Sandbach, 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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