Is Brierley, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Brierley a nice place to live or is Brierley rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Brierley 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 Brierley truly a nice place to live, or are Hemsworth, South Elmsall and South Kirkby and Moorthorpe a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Brierley?

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 Brierley. 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
Hemsworth 42
South Kirkby 27
Upper Cudworth 23
Belle Green 22
Felkirk 20
Brierley 19
Newstead 18
Royd Moor 16
Grimethorpe 15
South Hiendley 8

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Brierley. 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 Brierley 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 Crofton, Ryhill and Walton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Crofton, Ryhill and Walton (Best) 13423/32845
Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton 12682/32845
North East 10246/32845
Cudworth 8566/32845
Darfield 7175/32845
Hemsworth 6857/32845
Monk Bretton 6463/32845
South Elmsall and South Kirkby 6167/32845
Royston 5993/32845
St Helens (Worst) 4352/32845
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Your Health in Brierley

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Wakefield 1.7% 5.99%
Doncaster 1.64% 5.62%
Barnsley (Brierley) 1.79% 6.61%
Selby 0.97% 3.6%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton (Best) 11294/32845
Crofton, Ryhill and Walton 11251/32845
Cudworth 7444/32845
Royston 7083/32845
South Elmsall and South Kirkby 5920/32845
Monk Bretton 5863/32845
North East 4606/32845
Hemsworth 4418/32845
Darfield 4144/32845
St Helens (Worst) 2959/32845
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Deprivation in Brierley

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 Brierley. 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
Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton (Best) 14632/32845
Crofton, Ryhill and Walton 14484/32845
Royston 9638/32845
Cudworth 9566/32845
Darfield 8540/32845
Monk Bretton 7979/32845
North East 7853/32845
South Elmsall and South Kirkby 6879/32845
Hemsworth 5792/32845
St Helens (Worst) 3611/32845

Average rent in Brierley

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Brierley

If you are thinking of moving to Brierley, 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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