Heckmondwike
TownTown in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Heckmondwike is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Heckmondwike 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 Heckmondwike live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Heckmondwike compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Heckmondwike safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Heckmondwike at a rate of 114.1 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, 118 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Heckmondwike.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (637), other crime (330) and anti-social behaviour (181).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Heckmondwike was 130.1 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 Heckmondwike, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Heckmondwike has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Heckmondwike
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirklees 009A | 1,544 | 103.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.4% |
| Kirklees 011A | 1,742 | 92.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 011B | 1,312 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.9% |
| Kirklees 011C | 1,377 | 98.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 011D | 1,777 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Kirklees 011E | 1,798 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Kirklees 011F | 1,678 | 131.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Kirklees 011G | 1,973 | 141.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
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 Heckmondwike2
Middle areas in Heckmondwike1
Towns near Heckmondwike6
Heckmondwike in brief
Heckmondwike is a town in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 13,634 people lived in Heckmondwike in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £170,000 in 2025 across 137 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 114.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Heckmondwike was £170,000 in 2025.
Heckmondwike had 13,368 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Heckmondwike live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Heckmondwike, 98.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.