Is Bradford, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Bradford a nice place to live or is Bradford rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Bradford 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 Bradford truly a nice place to live, or are Farsley, Pudsey and Shipley a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Bradford?

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 Bradford. 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
Manningham 398
Undercliffe 397
Laisterdyke 310
Fagley 279
Bolton Woods 257
Bolton 247
Little Horton 238
Dudley Hill 195
Bowling 172
Eccleshill 156

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bradford. 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 Bradford 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 Pudsey ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Pudsey (Best) 7409/32845
Toller 6799/32845
Manningham 4307/32845
Great Horton 3451/32845
Bradford Moor 3217/32845
City 3194/32845
Bolton and Undercliffe 2604/32845
Little Horton 2430/32845
Wibsey 2020/32845
Bowling and Barkerend (Worst) 1777/32845
Reader Opinion:

Bradford is the stinking ar*e crack of Europe

Your Health in Bradford

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Leeds 1.22% 4.19%
Bradford (Bradford) 1.33% 4.55%
Kirklees 1.25% 4.5%
Calderdale 1.15% 4.38%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Pudsey (Best) 13367/32845
Wibsey 9069/32845
Great Horton 8444/32845
Bolton and Undercliffe 7558/32845
Toller 5610/32845
Bradford Moor 4845/32845
Little Horton 4658/32845
City 4420/32845
Bowling and Barkerend 3887/32845
Manningham (Worst) 3151/32845
Reader Opinion:

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Deprivation in Bradford

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 Bradford. 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
Pudsey (Best) 13252/32845
Wibsey 6752/32845
Bolton and Undercliffe 6603/32845
Great Horton 6125/32845
Toller 3425/32845
City 2733/32845
Little Horton 2250/32845
Bradford Moor 1999/32845
Bowling and Barkerend 1891/32845
Manningham (Worst) 1314/32845

Average rent in Bradford

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Bradford

If you are thinking of moving to Bradford, 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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