# Horbury

Town in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.

Horbury is a town in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber. Median sale price £205,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 87.1 per 1,000 people. About 9,890 people.

Town. Code E63001000. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Wakefield](https://openindex.co.uk/wakefield)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £205,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Horbury was £205,000 in 2025. Joint 254th cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/horbury#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 9,868** (2021). Horbury had 9,868 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 228th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/horbury#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in Horbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/horbury#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 95.3%** (January 2026). In Horbury, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/horbury#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001000) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63001000) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 151 homes were sold in Horbury in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63001000) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Horbury.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001000) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Horbury had 9,868 usual residents at the census.

## How Horbury compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Horbury | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £205,000 | joint 56th cheapest | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2025 |
| Population | 9,868 | 22nd least populated | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 95.3% | joint 42nd lowest | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · Jan 2026 |

## 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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Horbury

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Wakefield 029E](https://openindex.co.uk/wakefield/neighbourhood/e01011799) | 1,479 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| [Wakefield 029F](https://openindex.co.uk/wakefield/neighbourhood/e01011800) | 1,611 | 52.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.6% |
| [Wakefield 031A](https://openindex.co.uk/wakefield/neighbourhood/e01011797) | 1,854 | 25.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| [Wakefield 031B](https://openindex.co.uk/wakefield/neighbourhood/e01011798) | 1,356 | 154.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.0% |
| [Wakefield 031C](https://openindex.co.uk/wakefield/neighbourhood/e01011801) | 1,476 | 105.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| [Wakefield 031D](https://openindex.co.uk/wakefield/neighbourhood/e01011802) | 1,461 | 123.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |

## Your MP

- [Ossett and Denby Dale](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/ossett-and-denby-dale): Jade Botterill (Labour), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Wakefield](https://openindex.co.uk/wakefield)

## Postcode districts covering Horbury

[WF4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wf4)

## Middle areas in Horbury

[Horbury](https://openindex.co.uk/wakefield/horbury)

## Towns near Horbury

[Wakefield](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wakefield), [Ossett](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ossett), [Dewsbury](https://openindex.co.uk/town/dewsbury), [Batley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/batley), [East Ardsley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/east-ardsley), [Mirfield](https://openindex.co.uk/town/mirfield)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001000
- Constituency: [Ossett and Denby Dale †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/ossett-and-denby-dale)
- Council: [Wakefield †](https://openindex.co.uk/wakefield)
- Region: [Yorkshire and The Humber](https://openindex.co.uk/yorkshire-and-the-humber)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 3.34 km²
- People, mid-2024: 9,890*
- Neighbourhoods: 6
- Output areas: 33

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Wakefield](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wakefield), [Ossett](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ossett), [Dewsbury](https://openindex.co.uk/town/dewsbury), [Batley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/batley), [East Ardsley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/east-ardsley), [Mirfield](https://openindex.co.uk/town/mirfield)

## Latest updates for Horbury

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63001000

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/horbury, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/horbury#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/horbury