Macclesfield has been named as one of the best places to live in the UK.

Property finder company Garrington has published its 2024 marketing report for England and Wales.

The report ranks the 1,429 towns, cities and villages on measures covering five categories.

These categories are natural environment, wellbeing, heritage/culture, schools, employment and connectivity and house price quality and value.

Macclesfield scored decent in the natural beauty category. (Image - Macclesfield Nub News)

Garrington also lists the average family home cost and average sales price change across the last 12 months in each settlement.

They claim their Best Places to Live 2024 report is an impartial, objective ranking based on publicly available data.

Where does Macclesfield rank in the 2024 Garrington report?

Macclesfield is ranked among the country's best places to live, sitting at 42 out of 1,429.

Of all the categories, Macclesfield ranks highest for its house price quality and value, with schools, employment and connectivity scoring 164.

Macclesfield also scored well in the house price quality / value and heritage / culture categories.

Macclesfield fares worst for well-being, with a score of 721, just below the halfway point.

The full scores for Macclesfield can be found in the image above.

How does Macclesfield fare against other Cheshire towns?

Wilmslow is also ranked very highly, sitting just four places behind Macclesfield at 46.

Bollington is placed at 142, with house price quality and value ranked eighth for the whole of England and Wales.

Bollington also made the top 150, out of 1429 towns ranked in the report. (Image - Macclesfield Nub News)

Poynton sits in a solid position at 192, best ranked for its natural environment

Oddly, Prestbury does not make the list.

Lymm sits within the top 100 at 83, with schools, employment and connectivity its strong point.

Chester ranks at 203, with heritage/culture its best performer.

Knutsford is placed at 249, faring well for its house price quality and value.

Warrington is ranked at 342, best rated for its schools, employment and connectivity.

Alsager sits at a respectable 528, ranked best for its house price quality and value.

Congleton is placed at 578, also ranked highest for its house price quality and value.

Nantwich is placed at 583 on the list, with wellbeing and house price quality and value its highest ranked statistics.

Ellesmere Port sits at 662, with schools, employment and connectivity its strong point.

Barnton is ranked just above Crewe at 724, placing best for its wellbeing.

Winsford is ranked among the country's worst places to live, sitting at 1,363 out of 1,429.

Runcorn is also ranked low down the list, sitting at 1286 with wellbeing its worst rating.

Middlewich sits at 1,218, with only its house price quality and value faring well.

Cuddington is ranked at 1,159, with its natural environment rated poorly.

Davenham is placed at 1,174, ranked worst for its schools, employment and connectivity.

Holmes Chapel fares poorly with a rating of 1,161, ranking low for heritage/culture and schools, employment and connectivity.

Hartford is placed at 1,063, also ranking poorly for schools, employment and connectivity.

Northwich is down in 983, with its natural environment, wellbeing and house price quality and value ranked poorly.

Sandbach is ranked at 972, rated down in 1304 for schools, employment and connectivity.

Weaverham is placed at 953, with heritage/culture and schools, employment and connectivity ranking poorly.

Cheshire East's largest town of Crewe, which is fairly comparable to Macclesfield by size and population, is ranked at 772 on the list.

Where does Macclesfield rank compared to places outside our county?

The High Peak town of New Mills, which is a short 30 minute car or bus drive from Macclesfield, made the top four.

The small Derbyshire town sat pretty in fourth place, just behind Twyford in Berkshire, St Albans in Hertfordshire and Epsom in Surrey. The latter of which topped the survey.

Bowdon in Greater Manchester rounds out the top five.

Marple, which is just 13 miles from Macclesfield, was ranked 15th, as the third northern town in the top 20.

Stockport placed 57th, 15 places below Macclesfield in the report.

Elsewhere, Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme sit at 396 and 391 respectively, with Shropshire's Whitchurch ranked 1036.

The North Wales seaside town of Rhyl sits at a lowly 1351, with Liverpool ranked 347 and Manchester 135.

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