Rothwell
TownTown in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Rothwell is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rothwell 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 Rothwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rothwell compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rothwell safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rothwell at a rate of 84.4 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, 167 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rothwell.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (688), other crime (301) and anti-social behaviour (235).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rothwell was 97.3 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 Rothwell, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rothwell has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Rothwell
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds 097B | 1,834 | 127.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.8% |
| Leeds 097C | 1,691 | 66.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.4% |
| Leeds 097D | 1,400 | 40.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.4% |
| Leeds 097F | 1,042 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Leeds 097G | 1,808 | 54.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Leeds 098A | 1,358 | 214.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Leeds 098B | 1,228 | 51.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.0% |
| Leeds 098C | 1,308 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Leeds 098D | 1,347 | 75.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.5% |
| Leeds 098E | 1,467 | 120.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.3% |
| Leeds 100A | 1,522 | 36.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
| Leeds 100B | 2,019 | 82.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Leeds 100D | 1,886 | 105.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
| Leeds 100E | 1,509 | 108.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.7% |
Your MP
- Simon LightwoodLabour (Co-op)MP for Wakefield and Rothwell
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 Rothwell1
Middle areas in Rothwell3
Towns near Rothwell6
Rothwell in brief
Rothwell is a town in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 20,851 people lived in Rothwell in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £247,250 in 2025 across 370 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 84.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rothwell was £247,250 in 2025.
Rothwell had 20,964 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Rothwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rothwell, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.