Ossett
TownTown in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Ossett is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ossett 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 Ossett live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ossett compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ossett safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ossett at a rate of 73.5 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, 124 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ossett.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (664), other crime (302) and anti-social behaviour (214).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ossett was 77.9 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 Ossett, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ossett has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ossett
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wakefield 021A | 1,433 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.7% |
| Wakefield 021B | 1,686 | 76.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Wakefield 021C | 1,833 | 51.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.1% |
| Wakefield 021D | 1,492 | 44.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 021E | 1,184 | 46.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.0% |
| Wakefield 021F | 1,453 | 91.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
| Wakefield 025A | 1,390 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |
| Wakefield 025B | 1,391 | 173.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.9% |
| Wakefield 025C | 1,705 | 89.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Wakefield 025D | 1,488 | 67.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 025E | 1,467 | 99.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.0% |
| Wakefield 029A | 1,647 | 64.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.6% |
| Wakefield 029B | 1,366 | 92.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Wakefield 029C | 1,309 | 62.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Wakefield 029D | 1,638 | 40.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
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 Ossett1
Middle areas in Ossett3
Towns near Ossett6
Ossett in brief
Ossett is a town in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 21,819 people lived in Ossett in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,000 in 2025 across 282 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ossett was £225,000 in 2025.
Ossett had 21,854 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Ossett live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ossett, 98.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.