Is Pateley Bridge a nice place to live or is Pateley Bridge rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Pateley Bridge 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 Pateley Bridge truly a nice place to live, or are Grassington, Masham and Ripon a lot better? Time to find out.
What are the crime levels like in Pateley Bridge?
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 Pateley Bridge. 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 |
|---|---|
| Bridgehouse Gate | 1 |
| Pateley Bridge | 1 |
| Ladies Riggs | 0 |
| Bewerley | 0 |
| Warsill | 0 |
| Wath-in-Nidderdale | 0 |
| Heathfield | 0 |
| Knoll Top | 0 |
| Dacre Banks | 0 |
| Mill Hirst | 0 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Pateley Bridge. 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 Pateley Bridge and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Grassington (Best) | 32428/32845 |
| Masham & Kirkby Malzeard | 32415/32845 |
| Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Moors | 31950/32845 |
| Nidd Valley | 31824/32845 |
| Killinghall & Hampsthwaite | 31219/32845 |
| Bishop Monkton & Newby | 31008/32845 |
| Fountains & Ripley | 29858/32845 |
| Washburn | 27489/32845 |
| Harrogate Saltergate | 25448/32845 |
| Ripon Moorside (Worst) | 19847/32845 |
Your Health in Pateley Bridge
If you are thinking of moving to Pateley Bridge, 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 Pateley Bridge compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Town | Very Bad | Bad |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford | 1.33% | 4.55% |
| Harrogate (Pateley Bridge) | 0.82% | 2.98% |
| Hambleton | 0.97% | 3.33% |
| Craven | 0.93% | 3.56% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Pateley Bridge. 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 Pateley Bridge. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Washburn (Best) | 30711/32845 |
| Nidd Valley | 28925/32845 |
| Bishop Monkton & Newby | 27605/32845 |
| Grassington | 27596/32845 |
| Fountains & Ripley | 27331/32845 |
| Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Moors | 27306/32845 |
| Masham & Kirkby Malzeard | 25272/32845 |
| Harrogate Saltergate | 23094/32845 |
| Killinghall & Hampsthwaite | 22814/32845 |
| Ripon Moorside (Worst) | 16984/32845 |
Deprivation in Pateley Bridge
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 Pateley Bridge. 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 |
|---|---|
| Grassington (Best) | 29144/32845 |
| Bishop Monkton & Newby | 25966/32845 |
| Killinghall & Hampsthwaite | 25256/32845 |
| Fountains & Ripley | 23356/32845 |
| Nidd Valley | 23338/32845 |
| Harrogate Saltergate | 22989/32845 |
| Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Moors | 22045/32845 |
| Ripon Moorside | 21468/32845 |
| Masham & Kirkby Malzeard | 21038/32845 |
| Washburn (Worst) | 18786/32845 |
Average rent in Pateley Bridge
Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Pateley Bridge 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 Pateley Bridge.
Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Pateley Bridge
If you are thinking of moving to Pateley Bridge, 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.
