Is Stalybridge, Greater Manchester a nice place to live?

Is Stalybridge a nice place to live or is Stalybridge rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Stalybridge 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 Stalybridge truly a nice place to live, or are Ashton under Lyne, Dukinfield and Mossley a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Stalybridge?

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 Stalybridge. 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 AreaVoilent Crimes
Ashton-under-Lyne1
Brushes0
Heyrod0
Fern Bank0
Copley0
Millbrook0
Buckton Vale0
Hartshead Green0
Mossley0
Dukinfield0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Stalybridge. 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 Stalybridge 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 Mossley ward.

WardAverage rank in England
Mossley (Best)10263/32845
Stalybridge South9693/32845
Hyde Newton9557/32845
Dukinfield Stalybridge7876/32845
Stalybridge North7558/32845
Dukinfield6692/32845
Hyde Godley6057/32845
St Peter's5966/32845
Ashton Hurst5778/32845
Ashton St Michael's (Worst)2649/32845
Reader Opinion:

Saddleworth is not Yorkshire and you're not Alan Sugar

Is Stalybridge a healthy place to live?

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

TownVery BadBad
Manchester1.72%5.37%
Tameside (Stalybridge)1.6%5.7%
Oldham1.52%5.42%
Stockport1.21%4.41%

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

WardAverage rank in England
Stalybridge South (Best)10851/32845
Dukinfield Stalybridge7968/32845
Mossley7623/32845
Hyde Newton6733/32845
Ashton Hurst6432/32845
Dukinfield5961/32845
Stalybridge North5741/32845
Hyde Godley4910/32845
Ashton St Michael's4484/32845
St Peter's (Worst)3130/32845
Reader Opinion:

Ashton under lyne, into the mouth of madness and straight out of the other end

Is Stalybridge rough?

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 Stalybridge. 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.

WardAverage rank in England
Stalybridge South (Best)14892/32845
Dukinfield Stalybridge12507/32845
Mossley12218/32845
Hyde Newton10457/32845
Dukinfield9297/32845
Ashton Hurst9234/32845
Stalybridge North9024/32845
Ashton St Michael's6642/32845
Hyde Godley6562/32845
St Peter's (Worst)4388/32845

What is the average rent in Stalybridge?

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Stalybridge are dated September 2023. They are split into three figures, the lower quartile, mean and upper quartile. If you recieve housing benefit or the housing benefit element of Universal Credit, the lower 25% figure is near the top limit of what would be affordable. The mean is the average you would expect to pay for a rental property in Stalybridge.

How much can I earn in Stalybridge?

If you are thinking of moving to Stalybridge, 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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