10 Poorest Areas in England

£8m wouldn't go anywhere because by the time the council had spent a year consulting various companies to draw up plans and make models, gone on a fact finding mission to several European countries to see how they would do it, claimed their expense's, then put out a tender for the cheapest company to do the work, that goes bust before they even start , there would only £3.47 left.

How "rough" a place feels is usually the difference in inequality between rich and poor, rather than absolute poverty. That's why parts of London, West London especially feel so shitty. The average might be high but gap between rich and poor is huge

Ironically some of my fondest memories come from visiting "poor" parts of England. Blackpool, Hartlepool and Great Yarmouth all were great places to visit

Mad that you’ve ignored all of Cornwall. High house prices doesn’t mean we’re well off you know. Camborne and Redruth is among some of the most deprived areas in all of Europe

I’ve stumbled across this video by accident and would like to thank you for its content 👍🏼 I live in Hartlepool, born and lived here 41 years. We wouldn’t want anyone to know how fantastic it really is here, the lovey beaches, friendly people and Christ don’t tell them it’s £2 a pint and how low house prices are it’s criminal! my 20 mile commute takes me 20 minutes, I’ve just been to London for 4 days and witnessed a mugging! Never seen that in Hartlepool, you can’t judge a town on statistics, it’s community spirt and a level of happiness and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else! I question your motive and agenda on these videos.

As someone who lives in Rotherham I find it hard to believe that this town didn't make the list ....also every town on this list looked ten times cleaner than Rotherham

The Halton Castle pub is not in Halton, its in Old Skemlesdale on the road to Ormskirk. 20 miles away. Lazy research all over this post.

I had to do some work in Jaywick and it was heartbreaking to see the living conditions of some of the inhabitants, that was back in 2007, I'm often haunted by the experience to this day. Stay strong my Jaywick brothers and sisters.

There are some right sh*holes in the UK, yet in a video about poor English towns and villages they show images of greenery, lovely looking churches, and beautiful black and white Tudor buildings, and not one crackhead in sight, lol

I have to agree with number 1 for sure. I went to a news agents in Jaywick and they were selling Father’s Day cards in multi packs. Rough as hell.

A lot of these are old seaside towns which went into decline once holidays abroad became cheaper. I wouldn't say they were bad places to live though. Cheaper houses cheaper taxes and compared to most cities a nice population size. No crazy traffic jams. Not too noisy actually nice places to live.

The bottom five or six actually look really nice......mind you I'm from Hull 😆😆

Can't believe walsall isn't in this list . We are so poor in walsall I've heard Ethiopia 🇪🇹 is holding a pop concert for us .

Jaywick has one the nicest stretch of beaches in England ,you be pleasantly surprised.As a past resident of Jaywick I can tell you it’s split into three areas ,Tudor Estate which is not bad with nice houses and bungalows .The residents there are loathed to call it part of Jaywick so they call it West Clacton.Jaywick village which is in the middle has fairly nice houses ,and finally Brooklands ( every road is named after a car) where the pictures are taken and the Tv programme was made.It’s not as bad as it was but in parts it’s a absolute tip and really dirty ,sadly it’s been given up on by tendering council for years and left to fester.

South Kirkby and Such Elmsall is basically same place. Never really recovered from mines closing 30 years ago.

South Kirkby is pronounced "South Kirby"; South Elmsall is pronounced "South Emmsull"; Stoke-on-Trent is not in the West Midlands, but in Staffordshire!

Jaywick is so notoriously bad that when my Dad's friend was on holiday in the south east, he took a special drive out to Jaywick to see if it was as bad as the reports say. It was.

The photos of these towns seem greatly at odds with the gloomy narrative.

I would suggest Newhaven in East Sussex. When I was growing up the rate of unemployment in the town was 75% and children going without food was an everyday occurrence. I hear that there are renewal projects going on these days and I very much hope they’re successful, as the widespread deprivation of previous decades was heartbreaking.

Halton is a middle-class paradise compared to my home town (Skelmersdale). Edit: 3:09 The Halton Castle pub is in Westhead, near Ormskirk, which is really posh