Leek
TownTown in Staffordshire Moorlands, West Midlands.
Leek is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Leek 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 97% of people in Leek live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Leek compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Leek safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Leek at a rate of 89.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 168 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Leek.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (737), anti-social behaviour (326) and other crime (296).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Leek was 95.6 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 Leek, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Leek has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Leek
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staffordshire Moorlands 001B | 1,468 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.3% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 001C | 1,514 | 62.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.5% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 001D | 1,503 | 88.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 001E | 1,408 | 112.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 005A | 1,775 | 179.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.0% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 005B | 1,115 | 130.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.5% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 005C | 1,511 | 110.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 005D | 1,994 | 142.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.6% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 005E | 1,597 | 56.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 006C | 1,676 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.3% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 006D | 2,233 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 79.4% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 006E | 1,440 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands 006F | 1,376 | 21.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Dame Karen BradleyConservativeMP for Staffordshire Moorlands
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 Leek1
Middle areas in Leek3
Towns near Leek6
Leek in brief
Leek is a town in Staffordshire Moorlands, West Midlands.
About 19,569 people lived in Leek in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £190,000 in 2025 across 308 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 89.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Leek was £190,000 in 2025.
Leek had 19,388 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Leek live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leek, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.