Honley
TownTown in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Honley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Honley 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 98% of people in Honley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Honley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Honley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Honley at a rate of 50.1 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, 54 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Honley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (343), other crime (147) and anti-social behaviour (74).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Honley was 53.8 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 Honley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Honley has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Honley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirklees 053A | 1,407 | 71.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 84.7% |
| Kirklees 053B | 1,886 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.2% |
| Kirklees 053E | 1,210 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.6% |
| Kirklees 053F | 1,377 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.6% |
| Kirklees 053G | 2,341 | 81.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.6% |
| Kirklees 058C | 1,813 | 48.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 75.4% |
| Kirklees 059D | 1,400 | 84.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.1% |
| Kirklees 059E | 1,596 | 46.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.7% |
| Kirklees 059F | 1,669 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.3% |
| Kirklees 059G | 1,857 | 38.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 76.2% |
Your MP
- Paul DaviesLabourMP for Colne 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 Honley1
Middle areas in Honley2
Towns near Honley6
Honley in brief
Honley is a town in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 14,776 people lived in Honley 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 306 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 50.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Honley was £280,000 in 2025.
Honley had 14,399 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in Honley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Honley, 87.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.