Cleckheaton
TownTown in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Cleckheaton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cleckheaton 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 Cleckheaton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cleckheaton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cleckheaton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cleckheaton at a rate of 130.4 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, 143 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cleckheaton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (577), other crime (314) and anti-social behaviour (207).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cleckheaton was 129.5 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 Cleckheaton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cleckheaton has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Cleckheaton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirklees 003C | 1,576 | 40.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 86.0% |
| Kirklees 005A | 1,612 | 150.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Kirklees 005B | 1,670 | 297.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 81.7% |
| Kirklees 005C | 2,165 | 105.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.0% |
| Kirklees 005D | 1,619 | 111.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.2% |
| Kirklees 005E | 1,498 | 39.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.0% |
| Kirklees 008A | 1,649 | 115.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
Your MP
- Kim LeadbeaterLabourMP for Spen Valley
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 Cleckheaton1
Middle areas in Cleckheaton1
Towns near Cleckheaton6
Cleckheaton in brief
Cleckheaton is a town in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 12,202 people lived in Cleckheaton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £210,000 in 2025 across 223 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 130.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cleckheaton was £210,000 in 2025.
Cleckheaton had 11,607 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Cleckheaton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cleckheaton, 92.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.