Garforth
TownTown in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Garforth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Garforth 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Garforth, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Garforth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Garforth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Garforth at a rate of 57.9 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, 46 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Garforth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (330), other crime (163) and anti-social behaviour (135).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Garforth was 53.2 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 Garforth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Garforth has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Garforth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds 074A | 1,888 | 130.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.3% |
| Leeds 074B | 1,502 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| Leeds 074C | 1,394 | 96.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.2% |
| Leeds 074D | 1,515 | 38.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.1% |
| Leeds 077A | 1,501 | 22.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Leeds 077B | 1,141 | 30.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.2% |
| Leeds 077C | 1,773 | 40.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Leeds 077D | 1,377 | 19.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Leeds 077E | 1,474 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| Leeds 087D | 2,053 | 135.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.5% |
Your MP
- Richard BurgonLabourMP for Leeds East
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 Garforth1
Middle areas in Garforth2
Towns near Garforth6
Garforth in brief
Garforth is a town in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 15,526 people lived in Garforth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £280,000 in 2025 across 265 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Garforth was £280,000 in 2025.
Garforth had 15,148 usual residents at the census.
In Garforth, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Garforth, 1.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.