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The Crewe Fund
With a proud industrial heritage centred around the rail industry and manufacturing, Crewe is the largest town in south Cheshire. On visiting one of the impressive employment areas such as Crewe Business Park, you could be forgiven for not realising how different the town is just a few miles away.
Violent crime in Crewe is more than double the national average.
With housing stock predominantly older terraces, the most deprived wards within the whole of Cheshire East are in Crewe – with 36,842 people living in these wards (census 2021).
27% of Crewe residents have no qualifications.
34% of Crewe households have no car - that's 10% higher than the national average.