South Elmsall
TownTown in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
South Elmsall is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for South Elmsall 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 South Elmsall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How South Elmsall compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is South Elmsall safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in South Elmsall at a rate of 109.5 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, 100 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in South Elmsall.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (567), other crime (240) and criminal damage and arson (110).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in South Elmsall was 149.1 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 South Elmsall, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so South Elmsall has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in South Elmsall
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wakefield 043A | 1,386 | 149.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.7% |
| Wakefield 043B | 1,306 | 251.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Wakefield 043C | 1,345 | 68.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 044A | 1,499 | 125.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.7% |
| Wakefield 044B | 1,944 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.5% |
| Wakefield 044C | 2,348 | 71.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.1% |
| Wakefield 044D | 1,594 | 117.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.8% |
Your MP
- Jon TrickettLabourMP for Normanton and Hemsworth
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 South Elmsall1
Middle areas in South Elmsall2
Towns near South Elmsall6
South Elmsall in brief
South Elmsall is a town in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 11,555 people lived in South Elmsall in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £165,000 in 2025 across 129 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 109.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in South Elmsall was £165,000 in 2025.
South Elmsall had 11,187 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in South Elmsall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In South Elmsall, 95.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.