Is Mexborough, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Mexborough a nice place to live or is Mexborough rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Mexborough 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 Mexborough truly a nice place to live, or are Fairfield, Conisbrough and Swinton a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Mexborough?

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 Mexborough. 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
Swinton Bridge 52
Swinton 52
Adwick upon Dearne 45
Bow Broom 31
Old Denaby 30
Conanby 28
High Melton 8
Harlington 7
Barnburgh 1
Hooton Roberts 1

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Mexborough. 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 Mexborough 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 Wickersley ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Wickersley (Best) 15460/32845
Silverwood 12078/32845
Wath 10428/32845
North East 10246/32845
Swinton 10133/32845
Dearne South 8202/32845
Valley 8175/32845
Conisbrough 6813/32845
Mexborough 4316/32845
Dearne North (Worst) 2445/32845
Reader Opinion:

Buxton - don't be fooled by the beautiful surroundings

Your Health in Mexborough

If you are thinking of moving to Mexborough, 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 Mexborough 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 (Mexborough) 1.64% 5.62%
Rotherham 1.72% 5.87%
Barnsley 1.79% 6.61%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Wickersley (Best) 9195/32845
Conisbrough 6404/32845
Silverwood 6398/32845
Swinton 6176/32845
Wath 5520/32845
Mexborough 5426/32845
Valley 5143/32845
North East 4606/32845
Dearne South 4177/32845
Dearne North (Worst) 2460/32845
Reader Opinion:

Swinton is a sewer, moved here from Macclesfield, big mistake!

Deprivation in Mexborough

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 Mexborough. 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
Wickersley (Best) 17783/32845
Silverwood 11462/32845
Swinton 10172/32845
Wath 9935/32845
Valley 7991/32845
North East 7853/32845
Conisbrough 7807/32845
Mexborough 5737/32845
Dearne South 5612/32845
Dearne North (Worst) 3057/32845

Average rent in Mexborough

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Mexborough

If you are thinking of moving to Mexborough, 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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