Goole
TownTown in East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Goole is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Goole 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 Goole live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Goole compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Goole safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Goole at a rate of 113.4 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, 171 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Goole.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (879), other crime (500) and shoplifting (326).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Goole was 101.0 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 Goole, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Goole has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Goole
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Riding of Yorkshire 037B | 2,293 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 038A | 1,437 | 60.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 040A | 1,472 | 91.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 040B | 1,927 | 115.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 040C | 1,685 | 151.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 040D | 1,797 | 88.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.4% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 041A | 1,860 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 041B | 1,922 | 86.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 041C | 2,194 | 310.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.6% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 041D | 1,831 | 85.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 041E | 1,787 | 104.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- David DavisConservativeMP for Goole and Pocklington
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 Goole1
Middle areas in Goole2
Towns near Goole6
Goole in brief
Goole is a town in East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 20,912 people lived in Goole in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £164,500 in 2025 across 278 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 113.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Goole was £164,500 in 2025.
Goole had 20,173 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Goole live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Goole, 98.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.