Is Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire a nice place to live?

Is Hebden Bridge a nice place to live or is Hebden Bridge rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Hebden 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 Hebden Bridge truly a nice place to live, or are Hebden Royd, Mytholmroyd and Todmorden a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Hebden 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 Hebden 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 AreaVoilent Crimes
Chiserley32
Hebden Bridge14
Brearley12
Hoo Hole6
Blackshaw Head6
Heptonstall3
Charlestown3
Colden3
Pecket Well2
Cragg Vale0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Hebden 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 Hebden Bridge 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 Calder ward.

WardAverage rank in England
Calder (Best)15172/32845
Luddendenfoot11774/32845
Littleborough Lakeside10384/32845
Todmorden9194/32845
Sowerby Bridge9134/32845
Skircoat7636/32845
Warley5976/32845
Park4563/32845
Illingworth and Mixenden4326/32845
Ovenden (Worst)1511/32845

Your Health in Hebden Bridge

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

TownVery BadBad
Bradford1.33%4.55%
Calderdale (Hebden Bridge)1.15%4.38%
Burnley1.73%5.99%
Pendle1.46%5.5%

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

WardAverage rank in England
Luddendenfoot (Best)17640/32845
Calder16339/32845
Warley14209/32845
Skircoat13629/32845
Sowerby Bridge12945/32845
Littleborough Lakeside10177/32845
Todmorden9577/32845
Illingworth and Mixenden7686/32845
Park5990/32845
Ovenden (Worst)4393/32845

Deprivation in Hebden 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 Hebden 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.

WardAverage rank in England
Littleborough Lakeside (Best)16272/32845
Luddendenfoot16271/32845
Calder15390/32845
Skircoat13400/32845
Warley12104/32845
Sowerby Bridge11624/32845
Todmorden9525/32845
Illingworth and Mixenden8746/32845
Ovenden3610/32845
Park (Worst)2983/32845

Average rent in Hebden Bridge

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Hebden Bridge

If you are thinking of moving to Hebden 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.



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