Wakefield 026B
NeighbourhoodWest Wakefield. 1,534 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.2 square kilometres.
Deprivation by neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025
In the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, Wakefield 026B is in decile 2.
How Wakefield 026B compares
Each dot is a neighbourhood. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wakefield 026B safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wakefield 026B at a rate of 137.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 128.0 per 1,000 people across Lupset.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 16 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wakefield 026B.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (116), other crime (43) and criminal damage and arson (18).
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.
Figures for the whole of Wakefield
These figures are published for the whole of Wakefield, not for each neighbourhood, so they describe all of Wakefield and not Wakefield 026B alone. See Wakefield
Wakefield 026B in brief
Wakefield 026B has a deprivation score of 40.1 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Wakefield 026B had 1,515 usual residents at the census.
In Wakefield 026B, 99.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Wakefield 026B, 7.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.