Castleford
TownTown in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Castleford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Castleford 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 98% of people in Castleford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Castleford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Castleford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Castleford at a rate of 157.9 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, 606 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Castleford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,618), other crime (1,597) and anti-social behaviour (900).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Castleford was 157.3 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 Castleford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Castleford has no single figure. Of its 28 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Castleford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wakefield 001A | 1,599 | 179.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 001B | 1,405 | 109.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 001C | 1,679 | 289.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Wakefield 001D | 1,748 | 103.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Wakefield 001E | 2,519 | 114.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.7% |
| Wakefield 002A | 1,672 | 175.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.7% |
| Wakefield 002B | 1,426 | 114.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.6% |
| Wakefield 002C | 1,385 | 130.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.9% |
| Wakefield 002E | 1,520 | 260.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.2% |
| Wakefield 002F | 1,423 | 159.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.2% |
| Wakefield 002G | 1,242 | 460.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.9% |
| Wakefield 003A | 1,407 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 003B | 1,609 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.0% |
| Wakefield 003C | 1,707 | 133.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Wakefield 003D | 1,640 | 174.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Wakefield 003E | 1,538 | 99.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Wakefield 004A | 2,369 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| Wakefield 004B | 2,014 | 111.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| Wakefield 004C | 2,198 | 146.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.5% |
| Wakefield 004D | 1,426 | 113.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Wakefield 004E | 1,749 | 131.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Wakefield 005A | 1,534 | 116.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.6% |
| Wakefield 005C | 1,296 | 50.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 005D | 1,555 | 152.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Wakefield 005E | 1,360 | 119.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.9% |
| Wakefield 005F | 1,524 | 489.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.0% |
| Wakefield 024G | 1,654 | 53.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 024H | 1,391 | 71.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.8% |
Your MP
- Yvette CooperLabourMP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
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 Castleford1
Middle areas in Castleford5
Towns near Castleford6
Castleford in brief
Castleford is a town in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 47,533 people lived in Castleford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £190,000 in 2025 across 585 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 157.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Castleford was £190,000 in 2025.
Castleford had 45,363 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in Castleford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Castleford, 97.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.