Horbury
TownTown in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Horbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Horbury 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 Horbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Horbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Horbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Horbury at a rate of 87.1 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, 83 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Horbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (416), other crime (193) and anti-social behaviour (71).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Horbury was 95.7 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 Horbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Horbury has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Horbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wakefield 029E | 1,479 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Wakefield 029F | 1,611 | 52.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.6% |
| Wakefield 031A | 1,854 | 25.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Wakefield 031B | 1,356 | 154.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.0% |
| Wakefield 031C | 1,476 | 105.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Wakefield 031D | 1,461 | 123.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |
Your MP
- Jade BotterillLabourMP for Ossett and Denby Dale
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 Horbury1
Middle areas in Horbury1
Towns near Horbury6
Horbury in brief
Horbury is a town in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 9,890 people lived in Horbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £205,000 in 2025 across 151 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 87.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Horbury was £205,000 in 2025.
Horbury had 9,868 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Horbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Horbury, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.