Normanton
TownTown in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Normanton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Normanton 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 Normanton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Normanton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Normanton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Normanton at a rate of 82.5 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, 146 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Normanton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (850), other crime (351) and anti-social behaviour (181).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Normanton was 90.0 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 Normanton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Normanton has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 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 Normanton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wakefield 009A | 1,573 | 27.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| Wakefield 009B | 1,433 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.4% |
| Wakefield 009C | 1,410 | 76.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 009D | 1,511 | 48.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.9% |
| Wakefield 013A | 2,555 | 124.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.4% |
| Wakefield 013B | 2,497 | 29.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Wakefield 013C | 1,477 | 67.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.0% |
| Wakefield 013D | 1,383 | 86.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.5% |
| Wakefield 016A | 1,797 | 110.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.9% |
| Wakefield 016B | 1,801 | 105.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Wakefield 016D | 1,451 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Wakefield 016E | 1,688 | 224.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.7% |
| Wakefield 016F | 1,461 | 74.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.4% |
Your MP
- Jon TrickettLabourMP for Normanton and Hemsworth
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 Normanton1
Middle areas in Normanton3
Towns near Normanton6
Normanton in brief
Normanton is a town in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 22,752 people lived in Normanton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 304 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Normanton was £200,000 in 2025.
Normanton had 21,976 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Normanton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Normanton, 96.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.