Bentley
TownTown in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Bentley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bentley 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 7% of people in Bentley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bentley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bentley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bentley at a rate of 148.0 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, 152 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bentley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (609), other crime (319) and anti-social behaviour (248).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bentley was 156.9 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 Bentley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bentley has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bentley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doncaster 010A | 1,780 | 108.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Doncaster 010B | 1,538 | 201.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.3% |
| Doncaster 010C | 1,647 | 186.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.8% |
| Doncaster 010D | 1,502 | 152.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.2% |
| Doncaster 012B | 1,458 | 50.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.5% |
| Doncaster 013B | 1,497 | 135.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Doncaster 013C | 1,395 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 013D | 1,428 | 242.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.0% |
Your MP
- Ed MilibandLabourMP for Doncaster North
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 Bentley1
Middle areas in Bentley2
Towns near Bentley6
Bentley in brief
Bentley is a town in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 12,423 people lived in Bentley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £125,000 in 2025 across 137 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 148.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bentley was £125,000 in 2025.
Bentley had 12,044 usual residents at the census.
About 7% of people in Bentley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bentley, 95.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.