BARNSLEY has been named as one of the most unsafe places in the country to buy a house, according to a new study.
House buying experts at housebuyers4u analysed seven factors related to safety, including crime rate, the number of annual road accidents, and the number of available GP practices in each unitary authority area in England with a population of at least 100,000 people.
They created an index of these factors to identify which areas are the most unsafe to live in.
Barnsley was ranked the tenth most unsafe place in the country, with a safety index score of 42.41 out of 100.
Its crime rate is 105.69 per 1,000. This includes a residential burglary rate of 6.03 per 1,000 people, England’s ninth highest. Doncaster was ranked sixth, Rotherham 11th and Sheffield 16th.
