Mirfield
TownTown in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Mirfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Mirfield 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 Mirfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Mirfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Mirfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Mirfield at a rate of 81.9 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, 123 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Mirfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (666), other crime (292) and anti-social behaviour (249).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Mirfield was 76.5 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 Mirfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Mirfield has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Mirfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirklees 020A | 1,545 | 52.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| Kirklees 020B | 1,564 | 70.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.6% |
| Kirklees 020C | 1,541 | 52.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Kirklees 020D | 1,642 | 100.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| Kirklees 021A | 1,493 | 99.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.4% |
| Kirklees 021B | 1,580 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| Kirklees 021C | 1,789 | 120.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Kirklees 021D | 1,687 | 34.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Kirklees 026A | 1,567 | 109.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Kirklees 026B | 1,536 | 73.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| Kirklees 026C | 1,517 | 59.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.9% |
| Kirklees 026D | 2,311 | 129.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.2% |
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 Mirfield1
Middle areas in Mirfield3
Towns near Mirfield6
Mirfield in brief
Mirfield is a town in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 20,007 people lived in Mirfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £245,000 in 2025 across 317 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 81.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Mirfield was £245,000 in 2025.
Mirfield had 19,614 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Mirfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Mirfield, 97.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.