Is Wednesfield, West Midlands a nice place to live?

Is Wednesfield a nice place to live or is Wednesfield rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Wednesfield 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 Wednesfield truly a nice place to live, or are Bilston, Willenhall and Wolverhampton a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Wednesfield?

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 Wednesfield. 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
Park Village 287
Wednesfield 197
Newbolds 181
Old Fallings 171
Portobello 165
New Invention 140
Short Heath 130
Lane Head 130
Ashmore Lake 108
Ashmore Park 104

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Wednesfield. 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 Wednesfield 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 Wednesfield North ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Wednesfield North (Best) 18407/32845
Wednesfield South 15705/32845
Fallings Park 14956/32845
Ettingshall 11784/32845
Bushbury South and Low Hill 11606/32845
Heath Town 11327/32845
Bilston North 10480/32845
St Peter's 8908/32845
East Park 8742/32845
Bilston East (Worst) 5682/32845
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Your Health in Wednesfield

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Walsall 1.68% 5.56%
Wolverhampton (Wednesfield) 1.66% 5.53%
Cannock Chase 1.52% 5.25%
Lichfield 1.19% 3.93%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Ettingshall (Best) 8086/32845
Wednesfield South 8052/32845
Bilston North 7464/32845
Wednesfield North 7277/32845
Heath Town 7267/32845
Fallings Park 7178/32845
Bilston East 6974/32845
St Peter's 6458/32845
East Park 6433/32845
Bushbury South and Low Hill (Worst) 4792/32845
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Deprivation in Wednesfield

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 Wednesfield. 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
Wednesfield North (Best) 10060/32845
Wednesfield South 9608/32845
Fallings Park 8708/32845
Bilston North 6324/32845
Heath Town 5650/32845
Ettingshall 5642/32845
Bilston East 4899/32845
St Peter's 4484/32845
East Park 4090/32845
Bushbury South and Low Hill (Worst) 4043/32845

Average rent in Wednesfield

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Wednesfield

If you are thinking of moving to Wednesfield, 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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