So you are thinking of moving to Stockport in Greater Manchester? 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 Stockport 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 Stockport the land of milk and honey or are Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme and Denton a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Stockport
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 Stockport. 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 |
|---|---|
| Stockport | 3 |
| Portwood | 3 |
| Shaw Heath | 3 |
| Heaton Norris | 3 |
| South Reddish | 0 |
| Little Moor | 0 |
| Edgeley | 0 |
| Lower Bredbury | 0 |
| Arden Park | 0 |
| Cale Green | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Stockport. 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 Stockport. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Offerton (Best) | 10265/32845 |
| Cheadle Hulme North | 10407/32845 |
| Stepping Hill | 14399/32845 |
| Brinnington and Central | 3811/32845 |
| Edgeley and Cheadle Heath | 3896/32845 |
| Davenport and Cale Green | 7262/32845 |
| Reddish South | 8158/32845 |
| Manor | 8561/32845 |
| Heatons South | 9378/32845 |
| Heatons North (Worst) | 9796/32845 |
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Your Health in Stockport
If you are thinking of moving to Stockport, 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 Stockport 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester | 1.72% | 5.37% | 12.45% | 31.69% | 48.76% |
| Tameside | 1.6% | 5.7% | 15.05% | 33.7% | 43.96% |
| Stockport (Stockport) | 1.21% | 4.41% | 13.27% | 33.27% | 47.83% |
| Trafford | 1.13% | 4.09% | 12.16% | 31.64% | 50.97% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Stockport. 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 Stockport. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Cheadle Hulme North (Best) | 12575/32845 |
| Stepping Hill | 14505/32845 |
| Heatons South | 15990/32845 |
| Heatons North | 16678/32845 |
| Brinnington and Central | 2256/32845 |
| Davenport and Cale Green | 5858/32845 |
| Edgeley and Cheadle Heath | 6044/32845 |
| Manor | 7616/32845 |
| Offerton | 9037/32845 |
| Reddish South (Worst) | 9267/32845 |
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Deprivation in Stockport
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 Stockport. 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 |
|---|---|
| Manor (Best) | 11868/32845 |
| Reddish South | 12188/32845 |
| Offerton | 14197/32845 |
| Cheadle Hulme North | 18496/32845 |
| Heatons South | 18964/32845 |
| Heatons North | 20373/32845 |
| Stepping Hill | 21080/32845 |
| Brinnington and Central | 3363/32845 |
| Edgeley and Cheadle Heath | 8855/32845 |
| Davenport and Cale Green (Worst) | 9440/32845 |
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