Gomersal and Birkenshaw
TownTown in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Gomersal and Birkenshaw is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Gomersal and Birkenshaw 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 Gomersal and Birkenshaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Gomersal and Birkenshaw compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Gomersal and Birkenshaw safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Gomersal and Birkenshaw at a rate of 76.8 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, 84 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Gomersal and Birkenshaw.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (365), anti-social behaviour (236) and other crime (180).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Gomersal and Birkenshaw was 80.3 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 Gomersal and Birkenshaw, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Gomersal and Birkenshaw has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Gomersal and Birkenshaw
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirklees 001A | 1,684 | 51.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Kirklees 001B | 1,282 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.9% |
| Kirklees 001C | 1,680 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Kirklees 001D | 1,644 | 69.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.3% |
| Kirklees 001E | 1,262 | 52.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 004A | 1,605 | 66.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.8% |
| Kirklees 004B | 1,617 | 182.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.8% |
| Kirklees 004C | 1,628 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.2% |
| Kirklees 004D | 2,012 | 66.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
Your MP
- Kim LeadbeaterLabourMP for Spen 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 Gomersal and Birkenshaw3
Middle areas in Gomersal and Birkenshaw2
Towns near Gomersal and Birkenshaw6
Gomersal and Birkenshaw in brief
Gomersal and Birkenshaw is a town in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 14,116 people lived in Gomersal and Birkenshaw in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £224,725 in 2025 across 218 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Gomersal and Birkenshaw was £224,725 in 2025.
Gomersal and Birkenshaw had 13,948 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Gomersal and Birkenshaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Gomersal and Birkenshaw, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.