Is Winsford, Cheshire a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Winsford?

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 Winsford. 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
Brookvale 42
Greenbank 24
Frodsham 21
Hartfordbeach 19
Marsh Green 15
Hartford 6
Newtonia 1
Elworth 0
Hollinsgreen 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Winsford. 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 Winsford 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 Davenham, Moulton & Kingsmead ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Davenham, Moulton & Kingsmead (Best) 28402/32845
Hartford & Greenbank 24197/32845
Weaver & Cuddington 23403/32845
Shakerley 22546/32845
Winsford Gravel 18660/32845
Winsford Over & Verdin 17265/32845
Middlewich 16466/32845
Winsford Swanlow 11908/32845
Winsford Wharton 10572/32845
Winsford Dene (Worst) 8976/32845
Reader Opinion:

Nantwich - The Great Crewe/Nantwich Divide

Your Health in Winsford

If you are thinking of moving to Winsford, 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 Winsford 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 West and Chester (Winsford) 1.21% 4.33%
Cheshire East 1.06% 3.85%
Warrington 1.17% 4.19%
Newcastle-under-Lyme 1.4% 5.1%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Davenham, Moulton & Kingsmead (Best) 21413/32845
Hartford & Greenbank 19101/32845
Weaver & Cuddington 18887/32845
Shakerley 15467/32845
Middlewich 13996/32845
Winsford Gravel 13949/32845
Winsford Swanlow 10924/32845
Winsford Over & Verdin 10291/32845
Winsford Wharton 7807/32845
Winsford Dene (Worst) 7236/32845
Reader Opinion:

Winsford, once a nice, peaceful and prosperous town

Deprivation in Winsford

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 Winsford. 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
Davenham, Moulton & Kingsmead (Best) 26746/32845
Hartford & Greenbank 24955/32845
Weaver & Cuddington 21497/32845
Middlewich 20525/32845
Shakerley 17081/32845
Winsford Gravel 16684/32845
Winsford Over & Verdin 13653/32845
Winsford Swanlow 13150/32845
Winsford Dene 10516/32845
Winsford Wharton (Worst) 9706/32845

Average rent in Winsford

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Winsford

If you are thinking of moving to Winsford, 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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