Driffield
TownTown in East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Driffield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Driffield 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 0% of people in Driffield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Driffield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Driffield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Driffield at a rate of 67.0 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, 82 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Driffield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (450), other crime (185) and anti-social behaviour (116).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Driffield was 53.6 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 Driffield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Driffield has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Driffield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Riding of Yorkshire 008A | 1,676 | 29.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 008C | 1,779 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 044A | 1,567 | 43.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 044E | 1,553 | 49.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.5% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 044F | 1,435 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.2% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 045A | 1,308 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 045B | 1,734 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 045C | 1,651 | 121.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.8% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 045D | 1,515 | 161.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.8% |
Your MP
- Charlie DewhirstConservativeMP for Bridlington and The Wolds
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 Driffield1
Middle areas in Driffield2
Towns near Driffield6
Driffield in brief
Driffield is a town in East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 14,079 people lived in Driffield 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 359 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 67.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Driffield was £210,000 in 2025.
Driffield had 13,216 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Driffield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Driffield, 98.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.