Is Tadcaster, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Tadcaster?

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 Tadcaster. 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
Tadcaster 16
Toulston 1
Bilton-in-Ainsty 1
Newton Kyme 1
Walton 1
Bilbrough 0
Ulleskelf 0
Bolton Percy 0
Appleton Roebuck 0
Holme Green 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Tadcaster. 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 Tadcaster 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 Bishopthorpe ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Bishopthorpe (Best) 31386/32845
Copmanthorpe 31241/32845
Cawood & Wistow 30841/32845
Appleton Roebuck & Church Fenton 30209/32845
Tadcaster 29354/32845
Dringhouses & Woodthorpe 26099/32845
Sherburn in Elmet 24314/32845
Acomb 22974/32845
Wetherby 20385/32845
Westfield (Worst) 12882/32845
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Your Health in Tadcaster

If you are thinking of moving to Tadcaster, 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 Tadcaster 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 (Tadcaster) 0.97% 3.6%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Copmanthorpe (Best) 27383/32845
Appleton Roebuck & Church Fenton 26761/32845
Cawood & Wistow 25510/32845
Bishopthorpe 24598/32845
Dringhouses & Woodthorpe 23282/32845
Sherburn in Elmet 22205/32845
Acomb 21491/32845
Tadcaster 20730/32845
Wetherby 18266/32845
Westfield (Worst) 11729/32845
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Deprivation in Tadcaster

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 Tadcaster. 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
Copmanthorpe (Best) 31695/32845
Bishopthorpe 29194/32845
Appleton Roebuck & Church Fenton 25534/32845
Cawood & Wistow 25493/32845
Dringhouses & Woodthorpe 25386/32845
Sherburn in Elmet 24982/32845
Wetherby 24851/32845
Acomb 23584/32845
Tadcaster 23513/32845
Westfield (Worst) 11197/32845

Average rent in Tadcaster

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Tadcaster

If you are thinking of moving to Tadcaster, 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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