Wentworth Park in Yorkshire and The Humber has a Check Local Score of 70/100 (very 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.
Wentworth Park is a small pocket of semi-detached streets, the kind where the same cars sit in the same drives most days and you notice a stranger. With a population barely into three figures and a median age north of 50, this reads as a settled, older suburb rather than a starter-home churn zone — people move in and stay.
The picture on paper backs that up. Incomes and deprivation figures put Wentworth Park at the very top nationally, decile 9 for deprivation and decile 10 for income, which is an unusually affluent reading for anywhere in Rotherham's orbit. House prices tell a more local story, though: a median around £206,000 sits above Rotherham as a whole but well under the national figure, so a For Sale board here says solidly ordinary Yorkshire semi rather than commuter-belt premium. Eight in ten sales are freehold semis, the classic sign of a street bought to live in long-term rather than flip.
Day-to-day, this is a quiet corner — recorded crime over the year sits in single figures, and even with violence and sexual offences the largest single category, the raw numbers are so low that Rotherham's overall crime rate runs well above what you'd experience here. Broadband is a genuine strength, with full-fibre coverage reaching the large majority of homes, which matters if you're working from one of these houses rather than commuting out. Green space provision beats both the regional and national averages per head, so there's room to walk that doesn't require a car journey to reach.
Schools and safety both land in solidly-average territory rather than standout, which is worth weighing against the affluence and quiet: this isn't a place chasing an Outstanding-rated feeder school or a headline-grabbing safety score, it's a place that's comfortable, established, and unremarkable in the best sense. It suits people who've already done their moving around — professionals well into their careers, or those settling in for the long haul — rather than anyone chasing nightlife or a fast turnover market.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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