A Look Inside Two of The UK's POOREST Most DEPRIVED Areas

In this video, we’re following on from last week’s video where I showed you two of the most dangerous areas in Walsall, by highlighting two of the poorest, most deprived areas in Walsall, and these areas are Pleck, and Darlaston.

Starting in Pleck, the stats for this area are pretty shocking and it really hits home how some of the poorest areas have been plunged further into poverty as a result of the current economic climate the UK is facing.

Pleck is listed as the third poorest estate across the whole of the Black Country, so that’s a pretty clear indicator of just how bad things are.

Demographically, the majority of residents in Pleck are Asian, and it’s mostly a Muslim population.
As you can see from the shopping districts, there are a lot of shops catering to the community.

On a positive, there are some good community services operating, this is the Pleck Library Community Centre where they offer courses to help residents improve their English among other skills.

Pleck also has a decent amount of green space and a large allotment, but for the most part the communal areas are overrun with litter and have been trashed.

Pleck isn’t the most dangerous area, it has about half the crime rate of Blakenall, but it’s far from being a safe area.

One of the most surprising things about Walsall is the price of housing. According to Rightmove, the average house price for Pleck over the last year was in the £176,000 range.

Darlaston

Not far behind Pleck in terms of poverty is Darlaston, and in particular, Darlaston Green.

Darlaston is predominantly a White area, which is a very different demographic from Pleck, but walking around Darlaston I saw much of the same as I did in Pleck.

There was a lot of litter, large items Flytipped, and signs of drug use not very well hidden in bushes and dumped on the roadside.

Darlaston has a pretty lofty crime rate of 122, which means there are 122 crimes reported per 1,000 residents.

That’s pretty high and makes this a dangerous area to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Interstingly, and this is quite telling of the economic problems in the area, there is a higher number of vehicle crimes, criminal damage and theft than there are social crimes, which is usual.

For the privilege of living in Darlaston, you can expect to pay around £178,000 on average.

That wraps this one up, this was a look at two of the most deprived areas in Walsall, all comments and feedback are welcome, have as awesome day!

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Chapters
00:00 - Intro to Walsall's Most Deprived Areas
00:23 - Pleck
03:27 - Darlaston and Darlaston Green

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