Wakefield
TownTown in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Wakefield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wakefield 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 Wakefield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wakefield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wakefield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wakefield at a rate of 142.6 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, 1,267 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wakefield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (6,328), other crime (2,739) and anti-social behaviour (1,416).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wakefield was 151.8 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 Wakefield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wakefield has no single figure. Of its 58 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 12 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wakefield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wakefield 006A | 2,082 | 31.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
| Wakefield 006B | 1,349 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.9% |
| Wakefield 006C | 1,298 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Wakefield 006D | 1,417 | 36.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 007B | 2,404 | 73.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.1% |
| Wakefield 007C | 1,508 | 30.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| Wakefield 007D | 1,574 | 94.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.9% |
| Wakefield 008A | 1,371 | 55.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Wakefield 008B | 2,572 | 90.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.9% |
| Wakefield 008C | 1,479 | 44.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.9% |
| Wakefield 008D | 1,520 | 82.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 008E | 1,557 | 134.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 014A | 1,565 | 88.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.9% |
| Wakefield 014B | 2,094 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 014C | 1,386 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Wakefield 014D | 1,391 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 014E | 1,520 | 124.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 017A | 2,741 | 197.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.5% |
| Wakefield 017B | 1,886 | 278.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.2% |
| Wakefield 017C | 1,991 | 130.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.0% |
| Wakefield 017E | 1,361 | 962.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 67.3% |
| Wakefield 017F | 1,214 | 583.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.6% |
| Wakefield 019A | 2,868 | 237.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 77.6% |
| Wakefield 019B | 1,654 | 147.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.0% |
| Wakefield 019C | 1,715 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Wakefield 019D | 1,830 | 92.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 020A | 1,381 | 68.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 020B | 1,600 | 168.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Wakefield 020C | 1,646 | 125.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Wakefield 020D | 1,629 | 120.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 020E | 1,690 | 153.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Wakefield 022A | 1,566 | 95.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Wakefield 022B | 1,869 | 81.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 022C | 1,900 | 155.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Wakefield 022D | 1,495 | 144.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 022E | 1,774 | 154.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.6% |
| Wakefield 022F | 1,445 | 115.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Wakefield 026A | 1,624 | 168.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Wakefield 026B | 1,515 | 137.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Wakefield 026C | 1,721 | 98.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 026D | 1,695 | 106.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Wakefield 026E | 2,402 | 110.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| Wakefield 026F | 1,423 | 158.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 028A | 1,383 | 122.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.6% |
| Wakefield 028B | 1,229 | 258.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 028C | 1,615 | 100.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Wakefield 028D | 1,864 | 343.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Wakefield 030A | 1,502 | 155.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.2% |
| Wakefield 030B | 1,672 | 170.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wakefield 030C | 2,585 | 162.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.6% |
| Wakefield 030D | 1,779 | 213.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.4% |
| Wakefield 030E | 1,452 | 206.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Wakefield 033A | 1,430 | 161.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
| Wakefield 033B | 1,481 | 89.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.7% |
| Wakefield 033C | 1,517 | 25.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.4% |
| Wakefield 033D | 1,604 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.5% |
| Wakefield 037C | 1,659 | 115.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.2% |
| Wakefield 037D | 2,115 | 116.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.4% |
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 Wakefield3
Middle areas in Wakefield12
Towns near Wakefield6
Wakefield in brief
Wakefield is a town in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 103,904 people lived in Wakefield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £237,000 in 2025 across 1,249 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 142.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wakefield was £237,000 in 2025.
Wakefield had 97,871 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Wakefield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wakefield, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.