Is Goole, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Goole a nice place to live or is Goole rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Goole 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 Goole truly a nice place to live, or are Howden, Snaith and Crowle a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Goole?

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 Goole. 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
Goole 60
Hook 19
Old Goole 14
Boothferry 3
Rawcliffe Bridge 2
Knedlington 1
Little Airmyn 0
Airmyn 0
Reedness 0
Balkholme 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Goole. 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 Goole 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 Brayton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Brayton (Best) 29639/32845
Howden 28811/32845
Howdenshire 28425/32845
Derwent 27911/32845
Goole North 23537/32845
Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland 22146/32845
Axholme North 17871/32845
Goole South 15380/32845
Norton & Askern 10519/32845
Thorne & Moorends (Worst) 6179/32845
Reader Opinion:

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Your Health in Goole

If you are thinking of moving to Goole, 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 Goole 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 (Goole) 1.24% 4.15%
North Lincolnshire 1.24% 4.53%
West Lindsey 1.11% 4.25%
Selby 0.97% 3.6%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Derwent (Best) 28229/32845
Howden 26126/32845
Brayton 23804/32845
Howdenshire 22397/32845
Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland 21913/32845
Goole North 21688/32845
Axholme North 16857/32845
Goole South 14819/32845
Norton & Askern 9337/32845
Thorne & Moorends (Worst) 5990/32845
Reader Opinion:

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Deprivation in Goole

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 Goole. 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
Derwent (Best) 27213/32845
Brayton 26802/32845
Howden 24811/32845
Howdenshire 21809/32845
Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland 20987/32845
Goole North 19289/32845
Axholme North 16156/32845
Norton & Askern 10681/32845
Goole South 9220/32845
Thorne & Moorends (Worst) 7180/32845

Average rent in Goole

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Goole

If you are thinking of moving to Goole, 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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