Baildon Holmes in Yorkshire and The Humber has a Check Local Score of 61/100 (good), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Baildon Holmes is mostly semi-detached streets, red brick and privet hedges, the kind of place where a For Sale board tends to read "three-bed semi, freehold" rather than anything flashier — and the sales data bears that out, with freeholds and semis dominating what actually changes hands here. It sits at a density well above the national average, which tells you this is a tightly packed pocket of terraces and semis rather than a spread-out estate, and the median age of late thirties suggests settled households more than students or first-jobbers passing through.
On the numbers that matter for affordability, this is a place priced below the national picture — the typical property here sells for well under the England-wide median, and even against its own region it's on the cheaper side, with semis in particular going for notably less than the regional semi-detached benchmark. Against Bradford, the parent district, prices actually run a little higher, which is worth sitting with: you're paying a premium over the wider district average while still coming in well under the national one. The income and deprivation deciles are on the lower half of the national scale, so this reads as an area where money doesn't stretch as far as the house prices alone would suggest.
Green space is thin on the ground in the literal sense — there's a single recorded green space and not a large one, so this isn't a place built around parkland, and you'll find your outdoor time elsewhere or in gardens rather than on the doorstep. Broadband is a genuine strength: full-fibre coverage sits comfortably above eight in ten properties, which matters if you're working from home. The crime picture needs care in how you read it: the twelve-month total looks low in isolation, but the category breakdown shows violence and sexual offences making up over four in ten recorded incidents, with anti-social behaviour and criminal damage close behind — a pattern that pulls the safety grade down to a B while nearly everything else, from connectivity to affordability to housing, sits at B+. That's the quiet spine of this place: solidly average-to-good on the fundamentals, with safety as the one grade that lags the rest.
This suits someone who wants a functional, well-connected, reasonably priced semi in a settled neighbourhood and isn't chasing parkland or nightlife — the nightlife grade is respectable but unremarkable, and there's no sense of this being a destination in itself. It's a harder sell if green space or a spotless crime record sit at the top of your list; the safety grade, sitting a notch below its neighbours, is the one figure worth asking a local more about before you commit.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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