Featherstone
TownTown in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Featherstone is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Featherstone 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 Featherstone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Featherstone compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Featherstone safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Featherstone at a rate of 106.0 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, 76 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Featherstone.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (634), other crime (208) and anti-social behaviour (119).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Featherstone was 115.6 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 Featherstone, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Featherstone has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Featherstone
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wakefield 024C | 1,434 | 102.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.5% |
| Wakefield 024D | 1,576 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Wakefield 027A | 1,472 | 86.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.5% |
| Wakefield 027B | 1,843 | 200.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Wakefield 027C | 2,412 | 91.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.0% |
| Wakefield 027D | 1,589 | 61.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.4% |
| Wakefield 027E | 1,722 | 146.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.8% |
Your MP
- Jon TrickettLabourMP for Normanton and Hemsworth
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 Featherstone1
Middle areas in Featherstone1
Towns near Featherstone6
Featherstone in brief
Featherstone is a town in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 12,435 people lived in Featherstone 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 174 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 106.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Featherstone was £180,000 in 2025.
Featherstone had 11,657 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Featherstone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Featherstone, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.