Wakefield East
WardNorth west Wakefield. About 16,819 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 5.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Wakefield East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wakefield East compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wakefield East safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wakefield East at a rate of 235.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 116.1 per 1,000 people across Wakefield.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 364 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wakefield East.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,340), other crime (687) and shoplifting (482).
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 ward, so they describe all of Wakefield and not Wakefield East alone. See Wakefield
Wakefield East in brief
Wakefield East had 15,683 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Wakefield East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wakefield East, 93.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Wakefield East, 7.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.