Dewsbury
TownTown in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Dewsbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dewsbury 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 Dewsbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dewsbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dewsbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dewsbury at a rate of 124.0 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, 664 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dewsbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,499), other crime (1,643) and anti-social behaviour (794).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dewsbury was 132.8 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 Dewsbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dewsbury has no single figure. Of its 37 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 12 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 13 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Dewsbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirklees 012D | 2,319 | 96.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Kirklees 014B | 1,423 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.0% |
| Kirklees 014C | 1,887 | 169.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.1% |
| Kirklees 014D | 1,352 | 94.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.8% |
| Kirklees 016A | 1,585 | 80.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Kirklees 016C | 1,659 | 165.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 016D | 1,510 | 149.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Kirklees 017A | 2,015 | 76.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.1% |
| Kirklees 017B | 2,200 | 592.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 70.5% |
| Kirklees 017F | 1,673 | 105.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Kirklees 017G | 1,373 | 93.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| Kirklees 018A | 1,791 | 188.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Kirklees 018B | 1,375 | 185.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 018C | 1,650 | 122.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.2% |
| Kirklees 018D | 1,949 | 95.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.0% |
| Kirklees 018E | 2,111 | 71.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.5% |
| Kirklees 018F | 1,275 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| Kirklees 019A | 1,917 | 142.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Kirklees 019B | 1,580 | 70.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.8% |
| Kirklees 019C | 1,740 | 134.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.7% |
| Kirklees 019D | 1,801 | 108.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.7% |
| Kirklees 023A | 1,692 | 99.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.4% |
| Kirklees 023B | 2,127 | 139.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Kirklees 023C | 1,850 | 61.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
| Kirklees 023D | 1,712 | 170.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.4% |
| Kirklees 023E | 1,470 | 96.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.1% |
| Kirklees 024A | 2,038 | 108.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.5% |
| Kirklees 024B | 1,979 | 24.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Kirklees 024C | 2,094 | 76.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.7% |
| Kirklees 024D | 1,479 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 024E | 1,757 | 79.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Kirklees 024F | 1,789 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.3% |
| Kirklees 028A | 1,137 | 57.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 79.5% |
| Kirklees 028B | 1,243 | 111.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 028C | 1,523 | 69.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.6% |
| Kirklees 028D | 1,451 | 168.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Kirklees 028E | 1,301 | 120.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.2% |
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 Dewsbury2
Middle areas in Dewsbury8
Towns near Dewsbury6
Dewsbury in brief
Dewsbury is a town in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 65,878 people lived in Dewsbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £180,000 in 2025 across 579 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 124.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dewsbury was £180,000 in 2025.
Dewsbury had 63,730 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Dewsbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dewsbury, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.