Bearswood Green in Yorkshire and The Humber has a Check Local Score of 64/100 (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.
Bearswood Green reads as a scattering of detached houses rather than a high street — the kind of place where the properties do the talking and there's little in the way of shopfronts to give it a public face. With just 71 people counted in the local figures and a population density a fraction of the regional average, this is low-density, house-and-garden living, and the median age nudging 49 tells you it's settled rather than transient.
The numbers behind a For Sale board here are fairly consistent: detached homes, freehold, sold outright rather than leased — every recorded sale in the local sample was freehold, and detached houses outnumber semis two to one. A median sale price around £250,000 sits below the England-wide median, which is the more striking fact once you realise this is Doncaster: prices here run roughly half as much again above the borough's typical £165,000, so within its own metropolitan district this is one of the pricier corners, even if it looks unremarkable set against the national market. Schooling is thin on the ground in the data — Hatfield Woodhouse Primary, an academy converter with 221 pupils, is the one named option, without an Ofsted rating attached to judge it by. Transport is a genuine strength on paper: the connectivity and transport grades both come out well ahead of the national average, though no named station or rail line appears here, so take that as a broad signal of good stop coverage rather than a specific line to picture yourself on.
Green space per head is comfortably above both the regional and national norm, which fits the low-density feel, though no single park is named to anchor a weekend around. Full-fibre broadband reaches nearly all premises, a quietly useful fact for anyone working from home. What's harder to ignore is the safety picture: violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour together account for roughly half of recorded local crime, and the crime rate here runs vastly higher than the Doncaster average the parent benchmark quotes — over sixteen times, on that comparison. That's an odd note against an otherwise mid-to-upper-tier set of grades (B+ overall, A for affordability, A for transport), and it's the one figure worth sitting with rather than skimming past; the trend is at least described as flat, not worsening, so it isn't spiralling, but it also isn't improving.
This suits someone who wants space and quiet more than convenience or nightlife — the nightlife grade is the weakest in the set, and there's no sense here of a place built for evenings out. It's a spot for people already settled or looking to settle, drawn by affordability relative to house type and by decent connectivity, who are comfortable doing their own research on the safety figures rather than taking the overall grade at face value.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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