Neighbourhoods in Staffordshire Moorlands
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
13 neighbourhoods · 59 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Biddulph Central | £586 | +7.7% | 75 | 21 |
| Leek Town | £587 | +7.7% | 73 | 21 |
| Leek East & Upper Hulme | £654 | +7.7% | 66 | 55 |
| Cheadle Town | £664 | +7.7% | 68 | 49 |
| Biddulph North & Brownlees | £694 | +7.7% | 79 | 76 |
| Blythe Bridge, Forsbrook & Caverswall | £715 | +7.7% | 82 | 74 |
| Werrington & Wetley Rocks | £725 | +7.7% | 54 | 75 |
| Leek South & Cheddleton | £730 | +7.7% | 92 | 91 |
| Cheadle South & Upper Tean | £737 | +7.7% | 78 | 94 |
| Cheadle North, Alton & Kingsley | £773 | +7.7% | 57 | 76 |
| Biddulph Moor & Rudyard | £791 | +7.7% | 66 | 91 |
| Endon & Brown Edge | £793 | +7.7% | 54 | 77 |
| Ipstones, Warslow & Hamps Valley | £877 | +7.7% | 25 | 89 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Staffordshire Moorlands
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Staffordshire Moorlands. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Staffordshire Moorlands median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Staffordshire Moorlands.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Staffordshire Moorlands
Crime in Staffordshire Moorlands runs at 43% below the national average. Above median (#121 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 57.2, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Staffordshire Moorlands
100% of schools serving Staffordshire Moorlands are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Staffordshire Moorlands
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Staffordshire Moorlands
Staffordshire Moorlands has 0.31 jobs per resident locally. Bottom 10%
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Staffordshire Moorlands
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- The median monthly rent across Staffordshire Moorlands is £718, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Staffordshire Moorlands by estimated median rent is Biddulph Central at approximately £586/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Staffordshire Moorlands is Leek South & Cheddleton at 92/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Staffordshire Moorlands a safe area?
- Staffordshire Moorlands has an average safety score of 66/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- The most common council tax band in Staffordshire Moorlands is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £252. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Staffordshire Moorlands.
- What is the average salary in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- The median annual resident salary in Staffordshire Moorlands is £31,065, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Staffordshire Moorlands, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- The average property price in Staffordshire Moorlands is approximately £219,644 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- Gross rental yield in Staffordshire Moorlands is approximately 3.5% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 3.7 years in Staffordshire Moorlands. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- 100% of premises in Staffordshire Moorlands are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- 2.2% of 16-64 residents in Staffordshire Moorlands are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Staffordshire Moorlands?
- Staffordshire Moorlands contains 13 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 59 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
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Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
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