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Pudsey

Town

Town in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber.

Pudsey is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Pudsey 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 92% of people in Pudsey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£230,000
Joint 381st cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
34,853
314th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
92%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
98.9%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Pudsey compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

PudseyMiddle
Median sale price114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2025
Median sale price: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from £125,000 to £410,000. The middle area is £207,498. Pudsey is £230,000.
£230,000joint 36th most expensive
Population114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2021
Population: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 7,545 to 536,262. The middle area is 14,857. Pudsey is 34,853.
34,85320th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 100.0%. Pudsey is 92.0%.
92%44th fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 76.7% to 99.9%. The middle area is 96.2%. Pudsey is 98.9%.
98.9%joint 22nd highest

Is Pudsey safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Pudsey at a rate of 90.2 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, 264 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Pudsey.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,092), other crime (648) and anti-social behaviour (390).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Pudsey was 107.3 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 Pudsey, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Pudsey has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Pudsey

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Leeds 039D1,61248.7 per 1,000899.9%
Leeds 039E1,96631.9 per 1,0001099.8%
Leeds 062A1,40175.5 per 1,0004100.0%
Leeds 062B1,748280.5 per 1,000692.6%
Leeds 062C1,54346.5 per 1,0004100.0%
Leeds 062D1,64877.6 per 1,0001096.4%
Leeds 062E1,58182.1 per 1,000799.9%
Leeds 066A1,850100.4 per 1,000699.7%
Leeds 066B2,16971.8 per 1,000899.9%
Leeds 066C1,707110.1 per 1,000497.9%
Leeds 066D1,66497.1 per 1,0007100.0%
Leeds 068C1,53078.1 per 1,000799.6%
Leeds 068E1,86061.3 per 1,000899.8%
Leeds 076A1,97593.3 per 1,000699.4%
Leeds 076B1,59266.8 per 1,0009100.0%
Leeds 076C1,75854.8 per 1,00010100.0%
Leeds 076E1,79576.2 per 1,0005100.0%
Leeds 079A1,51663.3 per 1,000899.9%
Leeds 079B1,62292.9 per 1,000496.4%
Leeds 079C1,34653.9 per 1,0007100.0%
Leeds 079D1,65857.9 per 1,000699.9%
Leeds 079E1,391253.5 per 1,000397.5%

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Postcode districts covering Pudsey1

Middle areas in Pudsey4

Towns near Pudsey6

Pudsey in brief

Pudsey is a town in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber.

About 35,111 people lived in Pudsey in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £230,000 in 2025 across 560 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 90.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Pudsey was £230,000 in 2025.

Pudsey had 34,853 usual residents at the census.

About 92% of people in Pudsey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Pudsey, 98.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.