Otley
TownTown in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Otley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Otley 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 Otley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Otley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Otley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Otley at a rate of 70.6 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, 96 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Otley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (349), other crime (174) and anti-social behaviour (134).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Otley was 62.9 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 Otley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Otley has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Otley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds 003A | 1,660 | 42.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Leeds 003B | 1,613 | 91.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Leeds 003C | 1,574 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Leeds 003D | 1,682 | 46.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Leeds 004A | 1,731 | 149.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.5% |
| Leeds 004B | 1,609 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.7% |
| Leeds 004C | 1,776 | 28.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Leeds 004D | 1,311 | 37.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.2% |
| Leeds 004E | 1,401 | 156.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Katie WhiteLabourMP for Leeds North West
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 Otley1
Middle areas in Otley2
Towns near Otley6
Otley in brief
Otley is a town in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 14,450 people lived in Otley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £287,500 in 2025 across 191 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Otley was £287,500 in 2025.
Otley had 14,549 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Otley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Otley, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.