Is Beverley, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Beverley a nice place to live or is Beverley rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Beverley 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 Beverley truly a nice place to live, or are Brough, Hessle and South Cave a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Beverley?

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 Beverley. 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
Beverley 70
Beverley Beck 41
Molescroft 27
Weel 10
Broadgate 3
Arram 3
New Arram 3
Leconfield 2
Tickton 1
Eske 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Beverley. 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 Beverley 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 Beverley Rural ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Beverley Rural (Best) 30628/32845
Dale 28382/32845
St Mary's 24805/32845
Minster and Woodmansey 20166/32845
Cottingham North 18356/32845
Holderness 16280/32845
Kingswood 13380/32845
Cottingham South 12591/32845
North Carr 5754/32845
Orchard Park (Worst) 2837/32845
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Your Health in Beverley

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

Town Very Bad Bad
East Riding of Yorkshire (Beverley) 1.24% 4.15%
Kingston upon Hull, City of 1.61% 5.48%
North East Lincolnshire 1.35% 4.7%
North Lincolnshire 1.24% 4.53%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Beverley Rural (Best) 28146/32845
Dale 27422/32845
Cottingham North 25149/32845
St Mary's 25028/32845
Minster and Woodmansey 22830/32845
Cottingham South 20331/32845
Kingswood 14241/32845
Holderness 13890/32845
North Carr 4851/32845
Orchard Park (Worst) 3828/32845
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Deprivation in Beverley

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 Beverley. 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
Dale (Best) 29031/32845
Beverley Rural 27735/32845
St Mary's 26408/32845
Cottingham North 26194/32845
Minster and Woodmansey 21219/32845
Kingswood 20460/32845
Cottingham South 19409/32845
Holderness 17750/32845
North Carr 5514/32845
Orchard Park (Worst) 3195/32845

Average rent in Beverley

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Beverley 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 Beverley.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Beverley

If you are thinking of moving to Beverley, 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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