Is Haxby, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Haxby a nice place to live or is Haxby rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Haxby 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 Haxby truly a nice place to live, or are Easingwold, Tadcaster and York a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Haxby?

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 Haxby. 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
Heworth 212
New Earswick 55
Rawcliffe 23
Nether Poppleton 13
Strensall 7
Earswick 6
Stockton-on-the-Forest 5
Moor End 4
Towthorpe 2
Shipton 2

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Haxby. 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 Haxby 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 Sheriff Hutton ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Sheriff Hutton (Best) 32693/32845
Haxby & Wigginton 31636/32845
Strensall 31037/32845
Heworth Without 30844/32845
Rural West York 29556/32845
Rawcliffe & Clifton Without 26724/32845
Huntington & New Earswick 26069/32845
Heworth 22597/32845
Micklegate 19927/32845
Clifton (Worst) 18711/32845
Reader Opinion:

York - a top league hole

Your Health in Haxby

If you are thinking of moving to Haxby, 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 Haxby 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 1.24% 4.15%
York (Haxby) 0.92% 3.22%
Selby 0.97% 3.6%
Ryedale 1.05% 3.57%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Sheriff Hutton (Best) 28733/32845
Rural West York 25948/32845
Strensall 25318/32845
Heworth Without 24417/32845
Haxby & Wigginton 23165/32845
Rawcliffe & Clifton Without 21304/32845
Micklegate 20995/32845
Huntington & New Earswick 17179/32845
Heworth 16647/32845
Clifton (Worst) 13863/32845
Reader Opinion:

Scarborough or 'Scarbados' as it is known locally

Deprivation in Haxby

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 Haxby. 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
Heworth Without (Best) 30734/32845
Haxby & Wigginton 30001/32845
Rural West York 29462/32845
Strensall 27402/32845
Rawcliffe & Clifton Without 25573/32845
Huntington & New Earswick 22790/32845
Micklegate 22507/32845
Sheriff Hutton 22469/32845
Heworth 20350/32845
Clifton (Worst) 16181/32845

Average rent in Haxby

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Haxby

If you are thinking of moving to Haxby, 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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