Wetherby
TownTown in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Wetherby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wetherby 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 Wetherby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wetherby compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wetherby safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wetherby at a rate of 70.3 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, 68 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wetherby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (379), other crime (162) and shoplifting (90).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wetherby was 89.3 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 Wetherby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wetherby has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Wetherby
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds 001A | 1,462 | 24.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Leeds 001B | 1,289 | 24.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.3% |
| Leeds 001C | 1,367 | 47.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Leeds 001D | 1,648 | 12.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.8% |
| Leeds 001E | 1,224 | 9.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.8% |
| Leeds 002B | 1,482 | 164.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 78.8% |
| Leeds 002C | 2,229 | 144.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.9% |
| Leeds 002D | 1,369 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.8% |
Your MP
- Sir Alec ShelbrookeConservativeMP for Wetherby and Easingwold
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 Wetherby1
Middle areas in Wetherby2
Towns near Wetherby6
Wetherby in brief
Wetherby is a town in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 11,582 people lived in Wetherby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £376,500 in 2025 across 200 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wetherby was £376,500 in 2025.
Wetherby had 11,711 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Wetherby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wetherby, 91.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.