Mirfield
WardNorth east Kirklees. About 20,482 people in 14 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 97% of people in Mirfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Mirfield compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Mirfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Mirfield at a rate of 82.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 98.4 per 1,000 people across Kirklees.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 128 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Mirfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (671), other crime (296) and anti-social behaviour (263).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Kirklees
These figures are published for the whole of Kirklees, not for each ward, so they describe all of Kirklees and not Mirfield alone. See Kirklees
Mirfield in brief
Mirfield had 20,074 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Mirfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Mirfield, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Mirfield, 2.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.