Crewe and Nantwich
| Borough of Crewe and Nantwich | |
 Shown within Cheshire |
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| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Status: | Borough |
| Region: | North West England |
| Admin. County: | Cheshire |
| Area:  Total: |
Ranked 112th 430.41 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Crewe |
| ONS code: | 13UD |
| Demographics | |
| Population:  Total (2007 est.):  Density: |
Ranked 180th 116,600 271 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 96.9% White 1.0% S. Asian [1] |
| Politics | |
| Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council http://www.crewe-nantwich.gov.uk |
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| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Conservative / Independent |
| MPs: | Edward Timpson (Crewe & N'wch) Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury) |
Crewe and Nantwich is one of six local government districts in the non-metropolitan county of Cheshire, England. It has a population (2001 census) of 111,007. It contains 69 civil parishes and one unparished area: the town of Crewe.
The Borough of Crewe and Nantwich was created in the local government reorganisation of 1974 by the merger of the borough of Crewe (an industrial town), the urban district of Nantwich (a much smaller market town), and Nantwich Rural District.
Current proposals by the government are that the Borough of Crewe and Nantwich will be abolished in April 2009, when it will be merged with Macclesfield and Congleton to form the new unitary authority of Cheshire East.
There is also a Parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich, which was held by Gwyneth Dunwoody for the Labour Party from its creation in 1983 until her death on April 17, 2008. The seat was won by the Conservative candidate Edward Timpson in the by-election held on 22 May 2008. Note that the borders of the parliamentary constituency are not contiguous with those of the Borough, as much of the rural area in the west of the borough and the newly built area in the north of Crewe around Leighton Hospital is in the Eddisbury constituency.
On 4 May 2006 a referendum was held to decide whether the "Leader and Cabinet" form of local government would be replaced by an elected Mayor. The proposal was rejected by 18,768 (60.8%) votes to 11,808 (38.2%) on a 35.3% turnout.
From the Census 2001.
- Average age: 39.1 (England and Wales: 38.6)
- Marital status:
- Never married: 26% (30.1%)
- Married or remarried: 55.2% (50.9%)
- Separated: 2.1% (2.4%)
- Divorced: 8.2% (8.2%)
- Widowed: 8.5% (8.4%).
- Ethnicity:
- White: 98.0% (90.9%)
- Mixed: 0.7% (1.3%)
- Asian/Asian British: 0.5% (4.6%)
- Black/Black British: 0.4% (2.1%)
- Chinese or other: 0.4% (0.9%)
- Religion:
- Christian: 80.2% (71.8%)
- Buddhist: 0.1% (0.3%)
- Hindu: 0.1% (1.1%)
- Jewish: 0.0% (0.5%)
- Muslim: 0.4% (3.0%)
- Sikh: 0.0% (0.6%)
- Other religion: 0.2% (0.3%)
- No religion: 11.9% (14.8%)
- No religion stated: 6.9% (7.7%).
- Economic activity:
- Employed: 62.2% (60.6%)
- Unemployed: 2.8% (3.4%)
- Economically active full-time student: 2.6% (2.6%)
- Retired: 15.0% (13.6%)
- Economically inactive student: 3.6% (4.7%)
- Looking after home/family: 6.1% (6.5%)
- Permanently sick or disabled: 5.1% (5.5%)
- Other economically inactive: 2.6% (3.1%).
- Crime levels (per 1000 population)
- Violence against the person: 5.7 (England and Wales: 11.4).
- Sexual offences: 0.2 (0.7).
- Robbery: 0.4 (1.8).
- Burglary from a dwelling: 7.2 (7.6).
- Theft of a motor vehicle: 2.4 (6.4).
- Theft from a motor vehicle: 7.8 (11.9).
(Crewe has the lowest crime rate and highest detection levels in Cheshire (2003 figures)).
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