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Crigglestone and Durkar

Crigglestone and Durkar is a town or village in West Yorkshire, England. It has around eight restaurants and cafés, 35 bus stops, and the nearest railway station at Pugneys Central, 1.6 km away. There were around 101 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence and sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Crigglestone and Durkar area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Wakefield area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 353,364 residents at roughly 1,044 people per km².

Council
Wakefield
County
West Yorkshire
Constituency
Wakefield
Police force
West Yorkshire
39/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 231st of 294 English council areas — better than 21% of them.

Low crime7
Home affordability88
Affordable rents86
Good schools30
Life expectancy13
Low deprivation21
Employment34
Low council tax82

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

8°COvercast

  • Today: 11° / 6° · 31% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:07Sunset 16:31

9h 24m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Leeds Centre, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

100 reported · August 2026▼ 19% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences51
  • Anti-social behaviour14
  • Criminal damage & arson9
  • Burglary8

3 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Wakefield West · West Yorkshire

Local policing priorities

  • Anti-social vehicle use and speeding We will increase patrols in identified areas of demand and run speeding operations at these location…
  • Anti-social behaviour Anti-social behaviour including youths abusing members of the public and the illegal use of motor bikes in the loca…

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

555 reported road collisions (2025)

167 killed or seriously injured · 722 casualties · 15.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

209 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 184 rated 4–5 ★ (149 top)
  • 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Pugneys Central (1.6 km)
  • 35 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Sandal & Agbrigg (3.6 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£199,283 average▲ 2.9% YoY

Across Wakefield · to 2026-08

Detached£314,988
Semi-detached£200,459
Terraced£159,794
Flat£100,645

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£806 average monthly rent▲ 5.9% YoY

  • 1 bed £576
  • 2 bed £726
  • 3 bed £869

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

5.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.6 times median annual pay (5.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

4,321 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (11.9 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 187.7p · Asda (8.4 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

39 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 27 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: Arnold Clark Wakefield (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches14
  • Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

353,364 residents in Wakefield · 1,044/km²

  • Under 16: 19%
  • 16–64: 63%
  • 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK15,357
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK13,379
  • Net moves+1,978

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 63 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

17% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,297 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (48% of 165,130)

A £1,531
B £1,786
C £2,042
D £2,297
E £2,807
F £3,318
G £3,828
H £4,594

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

157 schools · 56,122 pupils

113 primary · 18 secondary · 26 other

Ofsted: 51 of 61 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

141 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • De Lacy AcademyOutstanding
  • Trinity Academy CathedralOutstanding
  • Ark the King's SchoolGood
  • Crofton AcademyGood
  • Horbury AcademyGood
  • Ossett Academy and Sixth Form CollegeGood
  • Outwood Academy City FieldsGood
  • Outwood Grange AcademyGood
  • St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary AcademyGood
  • Airedale AcademyRequires improvement
  • Ark Carleton High School
  • Castleford Academy
  • Kettlethorpe High School
  • Minsthorpe Community College
  • Outwood Academy Freeston
  • Outwood Academy Hemsworth
  • St Wilfrid's Catholic High School & Sixth Form College: A Voluntary Academy
  • The Featherstone Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wakefield

Care & health services

302 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes97
  • GP practices42
  • Dentists60
  • Homecare agencies83
  • Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 9 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wakefield

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 20 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

307 applications decided

93.5% granted · 287 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Jade Botterill

Labour

Ossett and Denby Dale

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • AyeDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Reform UK majority

  • Lab 1
  • Con 1
  • LD 2
  • Grn 1
  • Ref 55
  • Oth 3

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools4
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens13
  • Restaurants & cafés20

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

12,570 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£689 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,460 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 204,474 certificates

13.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

83% low-carbon electricity

Wind 44% · Biomass 36% · Gas 14% · Imports 3%

97 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for Yorkshire · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 82.2 yrs women · 77.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 53.8 women · 54 men

73% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.4
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

4 GP surgeries · 9 pharmacies in WF4

  • Middlestown
  • Orchard Croft
  • Crofton And Sharlston Med Prac

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Ossett and Denby Dale:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Crigglestone · 0.4 km

    Crigglestone is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is recorded as "Crigeston" in the Domesday Book. The civil parish had a population of 9,271 at the 2011 Census. On 29…

  • Durkar · 0.4 km

    Durkar is a small village in the southwestern suburbs of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

  • Church of St John the Divine, Calder Grove · 0.6 km

    The Church of St John the Divine, designed by William Swinden Barber, was built as a mission church in 1892–1893 in the parish of St James, Chapelthorpe, Crigglestone, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It is Grade I…

  • Painthorpe · 0.9 km

    Painthorpe is a residential area in the Wakefield district, in the English county of West Yorkshire. It is situated southwest of Crigglestone.

  • Kettlethorpe, West Yorkshire · 1.5 km

    Kettlethorpe, originally a separate village, is a suburb that lies 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Wakefield city centre, in West Yorkshire, England. The suburb has a secondary education school, Kettlethorpe High School, wh…

  • Horbury Millfield Road railway station · 1.6 km

    Horbury Millfield Road railway station served the village of Horbury, West Yorkshire, England from 1927 to 1961 on the Manchester and Leeds Railway.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Crigglestone and Durkar?
Crigglestone and Durkar is a town in West Yorkshire, England, in the Wakefield local authority.
How deprived is Crigglestone and Durkar?
The Wakefield local authority, which includes Crigglestone and Durkar, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.