Batley
TownTown in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Batley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Batley add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Batley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Batley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Batley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Batley at a rate of 111.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 493 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Batley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,026), other crime (865) and anti-social behaviour (745).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Batley was 103.2 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Batley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Batley has no single figure. Of its 29 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Batley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirklees 002A | 1,652 | 158.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Kirklees 002B | 1,730 | 76.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.1% |
| Kirklees 002C | 1,462 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.6% |
| Kirklees 002D | 1,616 | 136.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.8% |
| Kirklees 002E | 1,394 | 43.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Kirklees 002F | 1,817 | 157.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Kirklees 006A | 1,310 | 66.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Kirklees 006B | 1,445 | 150.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.6% |
| Kirklees 006C | 1,654 | 100.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Kirklees 006D | 2,018 | 76.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 006E | 1,366 | 64.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.1% |
| Kirklees 007A | 1,572 | 39.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.3% |
| Kirklees 007B | 1,579 | 87.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.5% |
| Kirklees 007C | 1,808 | 118.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.2% |
| Kirklees 007D | 1,953 | 88.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Kirklees 010A | 1,549 | 172.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.6% |
| Kirklees 010B | 1,567 | 521.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.4% |
| Kirklees 010C | 2,191 | 132.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.0% |
| Kirklees 010D | 1,559 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.7% |
| Kirklees 012A | 1,724 | 71.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Kirklees 012B | 1,631 | 94.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Kirklees 012C | 1,773 | 84.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 013A | 1,433 | 91.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 86.2% |
| Kirklees 013B | 1,522 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Kirklees 013C | 1,411 | 82.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 013D | 1,435 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.3% |
| Kirklees 013E | 1,375 | 71.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.7% |
| Kirklees 014A | 1,588 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| Kirklees 016B | 1,574 | 149.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.2% |
Your MP
- Iqbal MohamedIndependentMP for Dewsbury and Batley
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Batley3
Middle areas in Batley6
Towns near Batley6
Batley in brief
Batley is a town in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 45,637 people lived in Batley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £185,000 in 2025 across 450 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 111.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Batley was £185,000 in 2025.
Batley had 44,494 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Batley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Batley, 96.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.