Is Uttoxeter, Staffordshire a nice place to live?

Is Uttoxeter a nice place to live or is Uttoxeter rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Uttoxeter 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 Uttoxeter truly a nice place to live, or are Ashbourne, Alton and Cheadle a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Uttoxeter?

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 Uttoxeter. 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
Spath 18
Balance Hill 10
Creighton 9
Stramshall 6
Blount’s Green 5
Crakemarsh 5
Doveridge 4
Combridge 1
Beamhurst Lane 0
Palmer Moor 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Uttoxeter. 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 Uttoxeter 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 Alton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Alton (Best) 30772/32845
Doveridge and Sudbury 29139/32845
Milwich 29070/32845
Churnet 28865/32845
Checkley 28651/32845
Bagots 27978/32845
Abbey 27348/32845
Crown 23776/32845
Heath 22094/32845
Town (Worst) 15567/32845
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Your Health in Uttoxeter

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Stoke-on-Trent 1.87% 6.17%
Stafford 1.14% 3.91%
East Staffordshire (Uttoxeter) 1.09% 3.85%
South Derbyshire 1.05% 3.85%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Alton (Best) 26201/32845
Bagots 26182/32845
Abbey 25911/32845
Milwich 25768/32845
Doveridge and Sudbury 24970/32845
Checkley 21909/32845
Churnet 18056/32845
Town 17271/32845
Heath 16096/32845
Crown (Worst) 14301/32845
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Deprivation in Uttoxeter

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 Uttoxeter. 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
Alton (Best) 28506/32845
Bagots 23939/32845
Milwich 23636/32845
Checkley 22834/32845
Town 21595/32845
Churnet 21066/32845
Doveridge and Sudbury 21049/32845
Abbey 19589/32845
Heath 18289/32845
Crown (Worst) 16584/32845

Average rent in Uttoxeter

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Uttoxeter

If you are thinking of moving to Uttoxeter, 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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