Is Denholme, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Denholme?

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 Denholme. 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
Bents Head 17
Manywells Height 12
Harecroft 8
New Holland 8
Cullingworth 8
Green Clough 8
Causeway Foot 3
Keelham 2
Ogden 2
Lane Bottom 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Denholme. 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 Denholme 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 Northowram and Shelf ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Northowram and Shelf (Best) 11036/32845
Worth Valley 10770/32845
Bingley Rural 10011/32845
Queensbury 7025/32845
Shipley 5277/32845
Illingworth and Mixenden 4326/32845
Thornton and Allerton 4122/32845
Heaton 4084/32845
Clayton and Fairweather Green 2916/32845
Ovenden (Worst) 1511/32845
Reader Opinion:

Keighley: a portrait of a town at its very worst

Your Health in Denholme

If you are thinking of moving to Denholme, 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 Denholme 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 (Denholme) 1.33% 4.55%
Kirklees 1.25% 4.5%
Calderdale 1.15% 4.38%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Northowram and Shelf (Best) 16940/32845
Bingley Rural 14145/32845
Worth Valley 13472/32845
Queensbury 9703/32845
Thornton and Allerton 8943/32845
Shipley 8409/32845
Heaton 7856/32845
Illingworth and Mixenden 7686/32845
Clayton and Fairweather Green 7214/32845
Ovenden (Worst) 4393/32845
Reader Opinion:

Keighley: the most depressing and dull place I've ever encountered

Deprivation in Denholme

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 Denholme. 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
Northowram and Shelf (Best) 19212/32845
Bingley Rural 18930/32845
Worth Valley 18394/32845
Queensbury 12377/32845
Shipley 10836/32845
Thornton and Allerton 9200/32845
Illingworth and Mixenden 8746/32845
Clayton and Fairweather Green 7854/32845
Heaton 6768/32845
Ovenden (Worst) 3610/32845

Average rent in Denholme

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Denholme

If you are thinking of moving to Denholme, 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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