Is Bawtry, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Bawtry a nice place to live or is Bawtry rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Bawtry 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 Bawtry truly a nice place to live, or are Harworth and Bircotes, Maltby and Tickhill a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Bawtry?

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 Bawtry. 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 Area Voilent Crimes
Littleworth 43
New Rossington 34
Bircotes 14
Spital Hill 13
Newington 13
Austerfield 11
Bawtry 10
Harworth 5
Ryton 2
Misson 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bawtry. 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 Bawtry 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 Clayworth ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Clayworth (Best) 20838/32845
Finningley 18622/32845
Ranskill 17280/32845
Tickhill & Wadsworth 14230/32845
Langold 12861/32845
Maltby 10942/32845
Bessacarr 10927/32845
Rossington & Bawtry 10508/32845
Blyth 9808/32845
Harworth (Worst) 6741/32845

Your Health in Bawtry

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Doncaster (Bawtry) 1.64% 5.62%
Rotherham 1.72% 5.87%
North Lincolnshire 1.24% 4.53%
Bassetlaw 1.5% 5.24%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Clayworth (Best) 20712/32845
Ranskill 19214/32845
Blyth 18826/32845
Finningley 16273/32845
Tickhill & Wadsworth 12878/32845
Bessacarr 12366/32845
Rossington & Bawtry 7729/32845
Harworth 6978/32845
Maltby 5626/32845
Langold (Worst) 4212/32845

Deprivation in Bawtry

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 Bawtry. 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.

Ward Average rank in England
Finningley (Best) 23846/32845
Blyth 22360/32845
Clayworth 21177/32845
Tickhill & Wadsworth 19320/32845
Ranskill 18179/32845
Bessacarr 16696/32845
Rossington & Bawtry 12430/32845
Maltby 10325/32845
Harworth 8244/32845
Langold (Worst) 6915/32845

Average rent in Bawtry

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Bawtry are dated September 2021. They are split into three figures, the lower quartile, mean and upper quartile. If you recieve housing benefit or the housing benefit section of Universal Credit, the lower quartile is at the top limit of what would be affordable. The mean is the average you'd expect to pay for a rental property and the upper quartile is the average rental cost of the most expensive 25% of properties in Bawtry.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Bawtry

If you are thinking of moving to Bawtry, 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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