Elland
TownTown in Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Elland is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Elland 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 Elland live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Elland compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Elland safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Elland at a rate of 115.8 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, 132 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Elland.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (684), anti-social behaviour (356) and other crime (326).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Elland was 124.4 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 Elland, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Elland has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 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 Elland
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calderdale 024B | 1,902 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
| Calderdale 025A | 1,706 | 240.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.0% |
| Calderdale 025B | 1,773 | 173.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 77.4% |
| Calderdale 025C | 1,446 | 105.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Calderdale 025D | 1,821 | 214.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Calderdale 025E | 1,865 | 98.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.2% |
| Calderdale 025F | 1,692 | 71.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.6% |
| Calderdale 026C | 1,643 | 112.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.7% |
| Calderdale 026D | 1,361 | 37.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Calderdale 026E | 1,587 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.7% |
Your MP
- Josh Fenton-GlynnLabourMP for Calder 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 Elland2
Middle areas in Elland1
Towns near Elland6
Elland in brief
Elland is a town in Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 15,929 people lived in Elland in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 227 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 115.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Elland was £220,000 in 2025.
Elland had 15,788 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Elland live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Elland, 92.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.