Is Selby, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Selby a nice place to live or is Selby rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Selby 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 Selby truly a nice place to live, or are Snaith, Sherburn in Elmet and Knottingley a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Selby?

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 Selby. 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
Barlby 16
Hambleton 3
Barlow 2
Cawood 2
Riccall 1
Kelfield 0
Hemingbrough 0
Newhay 0
South Duffield 0
Gateforth 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Selby. 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 Selby 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 Riccall ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Riccall (Best) 32741/32845
Brayton 29639/32845
Thorpe Willoughby 27943/32845
Derwent 27911/32845
Hambleton 27840/32845
Eggborough 26050/32845
Camblesforth & Carlton 25644/32845
Barlby Village 25558/32845
Selby West 21463/32845
Selby East (Worst) 13346/32845
Reader Opinion:

Selby is packed to the grubby chlamydia gills with utter dreck

Your Health in Selby

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Wakefield 1.7% 5.99%
East Riding of Yorkshire 1.24% 4.15%
York 0.92% 3.22%
Selby (Selby) 0.97% 3.6%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Derwent (Best) 28229/32845
Hambleton 27094/32845
Riccall 26309/32845
Thorpe Willoughby 24702/32845
Camblesforth & Carlton 24278/32845
Brayton 23804/32845
Eggborough 22078/32845
Barlby Village 21273/32845
Selby West 17154/32845
Selby East (Worst) 12120/32845
Reader Opinion:

Selby, it's a culture shock to anyone from somewhere decent

Deprivation in Selby

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 Selby. 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
Hambleton 27026/32845
Brayton 26802/32845
Riccall 26417/32845
Thorpe Willoughby 25723/32845
Barlby Village 22311/32845
Camblesforth & Carlton 21897/32845
Eggborough 19451/32845
Selby West 17436/32845
Selby East (Worst) 11459/32845

Average rent in Selby

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Selby

If you are thinking of moving to Selby, 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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