Is Yeadon, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Yeadon a nice place to live or is Yeadon rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Yeadon 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 Yeadon truly a nice place to live, or are Guiseley, Horsforth and Otley a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Yeadon?

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 Yeadon. 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
Nether Yeadon 31
Kelcliffe 27
Chevin End 24
Rawdon Carrs 17
Little London 14
Lane Ends 12
Rawdon 12
Larkfield 12
Esholt 6
Old Bramhope 4

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Yeadon. 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 Yeadon 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 Wharfedale ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Wharfedale (Best) 22679/32845
Otley & Yeadon 17445/32845
Horsforth 16040/32845
Guiseley & Rawdon 15378/32845
Calverley & Farsley 12055/32845
Weetwood 9299/32845
Idle and Thackley 4596/32845
Windhill and Wrose 4224/32845
Bramley & Stanningley 2957/32845
Eccleshill (Worst) 797/32845
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Your Health in Yeadon

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

Town Very Bad Bad
Leeds (Yeadon) 1.22% 4.19%
Bradford 1.33% 4.55%
Kirklees 1.25% 4.5%
Calderdale 1.15% 4.38%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Wharfedale (Best) 22211/32845
Horsforth 18694/32845
Guiseley & Rawdon 17132/32845
Otley & Yeadon 16665/32845
Weetwood 14714/32845
Calverley & Farsley 14518/32845
Idle and Thackley 13174/32845
Windhill and Wrose 9661/32845
Bramley & Stanningley 6930/32845
Eccleshill (Worst) 6810/32845
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Deprivation in Yeadon

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 Yeadon. 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
Wharfedale (Best) 29394/32845
Horsforth 23434/32845
Guiseley & Rawdon 21405/32845
Otley & Yeadon 19931/32845
Weetwood 17715/32845
Calverley & Farsley 17680/32845
Idle and Thackley 16393/32845
Windhill and Wrose 9962/32845
Bramley & Stanningley 7438/32845
Eccleshill (Worst) 5087/32845

Average rent in Yeadon

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Yeadon

If you are thinking of moving to Yeadon, 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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