Is Hoyland, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Hoyland a nice place to live or is Hoyland rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Hoyland 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 Hoyland truly a nice place to live, or are Barnsley, Wath upon Dearne and Wombwell a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Hoyland?

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 Hoyland. 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
Milton 38
Platts Common 37
Jump 37
Hood Hill 24
Hemingfield 24
Blacker Hill 12
Tankersley 12
Harley 12
Birdwell 9
Barrow 5

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hoyland. 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 Hoyland 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 Penistone East ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Penistone East (Best) 15842/32845
Hoyland Milton 11784/32845
Hoober 11575/32845
Rockingham 10939/32845
Keppel 9652/32845
Wombwell 8667/32845
Stairfoot 6840/32845
Worsbrough 5618/32845
Central 4971/32845
Kingstone (Worst) 4350/32845
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Your Health in Hoyland

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Sheffield 1.39% 4.83%
Doncaster 1.64% 5.62%
Rotherham 1.72% 5.87%
Barnsley (Hoyland) 1.79% 6.61%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Penistone East (Best) 15236/32845
Keppel 8106/32845
Rockingham 7297/32845
Hoober 7012/32845
Kingstone 5525/32845
Hoyland Milton 5207/32845
Central 5157/32845
Wombwell 4507/32845
Stairfoot 3857/32845
Worsbrough (Worst) 3669/32845
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Deprivation in Hoyland

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 Hoyland. 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
Penistone East (Best) 22465/32845
Keppel 13676/32845
Rockingham 12828/32845
Hoober 11840/32845
Hoyland Milton 10461/32845
Wombwell 9400/32845
Central 8190/32845
Stairfoot 6995/32845
Kingstone 6894/32845
Worsbrough (Worst) 6387/32845

Average rent in Hoyland

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Hoyland

If you are thinking of moving to Hoyland, 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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