Shipley
TownTown in Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Shipley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shipley 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 Shipley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shipley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shipley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shipley at a rate of 120.2 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, 329 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shipley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,471), other crime (604) and anti-social behaviour (386).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Shipley was 137.1 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 Shipley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Shipley has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Shipley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford 018C | 1,579 | 105.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.4% |
| Bradford 018D | 1,569 | 91.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.4% |
| Bradford 018E | 1,587 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.1% |
| Bradford 018F | 1,601 | 32.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.6% |
| Bradford 020B | 2,226 | 239.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.1% |
| Bradford 020C | 1,563 | 108.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Bradford 020D | 1,393 | 66.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
| Bradford 020E | 1,249 | 484.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 87.5% |
| Bradford 020F | 1,060 | 96.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.0% |
| Bradford 021A | 1,610 | 135.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Bradford 021B | 1,472 | 215.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.4% |
| Bradford 021C | 1,609 | 107.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.7% |
| Bradford 021D | 1,475 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.2% |
| Bradford 021E | 1,572 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Bradford 024D | 1,778 | 46.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Bradford 024E | 2,039 | 109.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Bradford 025A | 1,835 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Bradford 025B | 1,832 | 95.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.5% |
Your MP
- Anna DixonLabourMP for Shipley
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 Shipley1
Middle areas in Shipley4
Towns near Shipley6
Shipley in brief
Shipley is a town in Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 29,747 people lived in Shipley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £197,500 in 2025 across 407 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 120.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Shipley was £197,500 in 2025.
Shipley had 29,228 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Shipley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shipley, 95.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.