Is Farsley, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Farsley?

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 Farsley. 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
Moorside 175
New Scarbro 168
Cragg Hill 76
Bagley 67
Farsley Beck Bottom 67
Intake 67
Calverley 62
Swinnow Moor 57
Farsley 38
Rawdon Carrs 17

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Farsley. 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 Farsley 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 Otley & Yeadon ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Otley & Yeadon (Best) 17445/32845
Horsforth 16040/32845
Calverley & Farsley 12055/32845
Pudsey 7409/32845
Windhill and Wrose 4224/32845
Farnley & Wortley 4167/32845
Bradford Moor 3217/32845
Kirkstall 3108/32845
Bramley & Stanningley 2957/32845
Eccleshill (Worst) 797/32845
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Your Health in Farsley

If you are thinking of moving to Farsley, 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 Farsley 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 (Farsley) 1.22% 4.19%
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 Farsley. 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 Farsley. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;

Ward Average rank in England
Horsforth (Best) 18694/32845
Otley & Yeadon 16665/32845
Calverley & Farsley 14518/32845
Pudsey 13367/32845
Windhill and Wrose 9661/32845
Farnley & Wortley 8361/32845
Kirkstall 7954/32845
Bramley & Stanningley 6930/32845
Eccleshill 6810/32845
Bradford Moor (Worst) 4845/32845

Deprivation in Farsley

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 Farsley. 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
Horsforth (Best) 23434/32845
Otley & Yeadon 19931/32845
Calverley & Farsley 17680/32845
Pudsey 13252/32845
Windhill and Wrose 9962/32845
Farnley & Wortley 8688/32845
Kirkstall 8474/32845
Bramley & Stanningley 7438/32845
Eccleshill 5087/32845
Bradford Moor (Worst) 1999/32845

Average rent in Farsley

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Farsley

If you are thinking of moving to Farsley, 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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