Area In Focus; Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Doncaster is a Roman settlement and has recently gained city status as part of the late Queen's Jubilee celebrations, Doncaster was then actually visited by HRH King Charles in 2022
Population; 308,100 in 2021.
Average house price; £187,500
Property types : suburban houses, ex local authority houses, former mining villages aswell as some city center flats and apartments although the majority of housing in Doncaster are freehold houses.
Doncaster benefits from being extremely well connected with transposed links across England.
A train from Doncaster to London can take as little as 1h30min
Connected across the country with the M62, A1 and M1 it makes the individual estates around the area a dream location for logistic companies such as Amazon who have a number of large hubs in the area creating jobs for thousands of Doncaster’s residents.
Doncaster Sheffield Robinhood airport closed in 2021 as landlord Peel Holdings based at Greater Manchester indicated that the site was not profitable - Doncaster council and Save Doncaster airport have since been involved in re opening the airport public sector control and as of 2024 talks and plans have been positive with there being a chance of the airport re opening in the future.
Doncaster also benefits from a buoyant housing market and property normally sell and let faster than the natural average infact Doncaster’s rental market is one of the hottest areas demand wise in the UK.
The DN postcode covers a wide area stretching to Scunthorpe in the East and Retford in the south (neither of these areas are actually in the same county as Doncaster)
It borders Sheffield, Rotherham & Barnsley postcodes (S) to the west and south west.
In more recent years Doncaster has been a hub for property investment and property development companies who operate across the UK, due in part to high levels of skilled tradesmen and the fact that the city is located at the near center of the country.
Employment is also better than Uk average % wise 3.2 of the population in 2023
Unemployment figures of 3.2% of the population unemployed according to the ONS
Average wage is £27,000 according to Payscale
Average household income of £34,700 compared with the UK average of £45,000 (the average household income varies across DN postcodes with Bassetlaw at the lower end and North Linconshire at the higher end of the scale see here - Plumplot
Doncaster and South Yorkshire in general have a bright future ahead attributed to a young population, strong employment and affordable housing when compared to the UK averages.
All figures sourced as of July 2024
Danum House Clearance are actually based in Doncaster and although carrying out house clearance and site clearance nationwide we are considered the primary house clearance company in the city. Did you know Danum is the old Roman name for Doncaster the original settlement
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