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Living in Bradford

63 neighbourhoods · 312 sub-areas
Crime vs nat. avg
≈ nat. avg
In line with nat. avg · 105.6 / 1k / yr · #298 of 318 cities
Good schools
100%
#1 of 296 cities
Commute to hub
43 min
#77 of 318 cities
Jobs density
0.36
#230 of 318 cities
Avg rent
£737/mo
+3.8% YoY · #43 of 314 cities
Council tax
£154/mo
Estimated (Band D)
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Neighbourhoods in Bradford

Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.

63 neighbourhoods · 312 sub-areas

Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.

Bradford 065£554+3.8%851
Holme Top£556+3.8%8523
Bradford 064£567+3.8%8513
Broomfields & East Bowling£579+3.8%859
Keighley South£587+3.8%8516
Shearbridge & University£592+3.8%9330
Laisterdyke & Bowling£608+3.8%8010
Great Horton & Brackenhill£608+3.8%8411
Holme Wood£608+3.8%714
Girlington£610+3.8%9141
Barkerend East£617+3.8%8520
Canterbury£621+3.8%8515
Toller Lane & Infirmary£622+3.8%9034
Bowling Park£624+3.8%8523
Undercliffe£628+3.8%8516
Keighley Oakworth Road & West Lane£631+3.8%8513
Bankfoot£633+3.8%8323
Brown Royd£639+3.8%9226
Keighley Central & East£650+3.8%8529
Manningham & Lister Park£650+3.8%8541
Fairweather Green£651+3.8%7828
Eccleshill£652+3.8%8224
Wibsey St Enoch's£652+3.8%8031
Wyke£665+3.8%8020
Bierley & Tong£666+3.8%8115
Horton Bank£667+3.8%7331
Frizinghall & Heaton Grove£668+3.8%8535
Bolton Road & Kings Road£669+3.8%9135
Low Moor£692+3.8%8244
Buttershaw£692+3.8%5613
Scholemoor£694+3.8%7638
Keighley Exley Head£704+3.8%8515
Clayton£706+3.8%5747
Allerton£715+3.8%6921
Haigh Fold£718+3.8%7035
Thornton£730+3.8%5834
Wrose & Bolton Woods£737+3.8%8438
Windhill£748+3.8%9129
Keighley Utley£757+3.8%9037
Thornbury£761+3.8%9140
Shipley Town£763+3.8%8528
Ravenscliffe£773+3.8%687
Heaton Highgate£777+3.8%8460
Queensbury£777+3.8%7544
Idle£777+3.8%7734
Chellow Heights£777+3.8%8445
Haworth & Oxenhope£788+3.8%8774
Oakworth & Laycock£803+3.8%6962
Bingley Town£808+3.8%9336
Riddlesden & East Morton£853+3.8%8180
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Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.

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Where to look in Bradford

Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Bradford. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.

Top 5 cheapest

Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).

  1. 1.Bradford 065£554/mo
  2. 2.Holme Top£556/mo
  3. 3.Bradford 064£567/mo
  4. 4.Broomfields & East Bowling£579/mo
  5. 5.Keighley South£587/mo
Top 5 most desirable

Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).

  1. 1.Saltaire & Baildon West95/100
  2. 2.Crossflatts & Eldwick94/100
  3. 3.Shearbridge & University93/100
  4. 4.Bingley Town93/100
  5. 5.Bradford 06393/100
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Cost of living

Median rent and council tax across Bradford.

Avg rent
£737/mo
#43 of 314 cities
Sale price
£160,000
+6.7% YoY
Yrs to deposit
2.9 yr
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
council-area level rent by bedroom
ONS PIPR median for the council area
1 bed£544/mo
2 bed£668/mo
3 bed£799/mo
4 bed£1,100/mo
Sale price by property type
HMLR HPI average
Detached£334,800
Semi-detached£208,514
Terraced£157,540
Flat£111,992
Affordability
Price-to-earnings5.7×
Rent / take-home31%
Council tax (estimated, full council area)£1,853/yr
Mortgage (25y, 5%)£855/mo

Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.

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Safety in Bradford

Crime in Bradford runs at in line with the national average. Bottom 10% (#298 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 105.6, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.

How crime is measured

What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.

Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.

Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.

Total crime / 1k / yr
105.6
#298 of 318 cities
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
All crime categories
incidents / 1,000 residents / year — sorted high → low
Violent & sexual offences
48.0
Anti-social behaviour
8.9
Criminal damage & arson
7.9
Public order
7.7
Vehicle crime
6.3
Other theft
6.0
Burglary
5.7
Drugs
3.8
Other crime
3.4
Shoplifting
2.4
Robbery
1.3
Possession of weapons
1.1
Theft from the person
0.9
Bicycle theft
0.7
Safest neighbourhoods in Bradford
by safety score (higher = safer)
Addingham & Ilkley Moor93/100
Menston & Burley Moor91/100
Burley-in-Wharfedale90/100

Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.

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Schools in Bradford

100% of schools serving Bradford are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)

Good or Outstanding
100%
#1 of 296 cities
Good w/in 2 km
39%
#117 of 318 cities
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted rating distribution
Good100%
Outstanding (count)0
Good (count)1
Requires improvement0
Inadequate0
Best neighbourhoods for schools in Bradford
by school score
Burley-in-Wharfedale99/100
Addingham & Ilkley Moor99/100
Keighley Utley98/100

Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.

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Transport in Bradford

Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.

To Leeds
43 min
Median across local areas
To Manchester
79 min
Median across local areas
To Sheffield
85 min
Median across local areas
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
Commute to major UK cities
public transport, off-peak typical
Leeds
43 min
Manchester
79 min
Sheffield
85 min
Liverpool
123 min
Birmingham
155 min
London
178 min
Edinburgh
222 min
Bristol
241 min
Glasgow
257 min
Cardiff
275 min
How residents travel to work
Census 2021, mode share
Car57%Public6%Active8%WFH22%
Best-connected neighbourhoods in Bradford
by transport score
Bradford 06597/100
Shipley Town97/100
Keighley Central & East95/100

DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.

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Job access from Bradford

Bradford has 0.36 jobs per resident locally. Below median

Jobs per resident
0.36
#230 of 318 cities
5y jobs growth
+0.9%
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
Reachable jobs by mode
Drive — 100 jobs6 min
PT — 100 jobs6 min
Drive — 500 jobs7 min
PT — 500 jobs10 min
Drive — 5,000 jobs12 min
PT — 5,000 jobs25 min
Local job mix by sector
ONS BRES, % of local jobs
Retail & hospitality
23.4%
Health & social care
18.3%
Manufacturing
11.5%
Education
10.3%
Professional & business svcs
6.8%
Construction
4.8%
Finance & insurance
2.7%
Tech & ICT
1.3%

ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.

FAQ

Frequently asked about Bradford

Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.

What is the average rent in Bradford?
The median monthly rent across Bradford is £737, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
Where is the cheapest place to rent in Bradford?
The cheapest neighbourhood in Bradford by estimated median rent is Bradford 065 at approximately £554/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
What's the best neighbourhood to live in Bradford?
By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Bradford is Saltaire & Baildon West at 95/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
Is Bradford a safe area?
Bradford has an average safety score of 40/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
What is council tax in Bradford?
The most common council tax band in Bradford is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £1,993. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Bradford.
What is the average salary in Bradford?
The median annual resident salary in Bradford is £28,424, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Bradford, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
What is the average house price in Bradford?
The average property price in Bradford is approximately £187,388 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
What's the rental yield in Bradford?
Gross rental yield in Bradford is approximately 4.9% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
How long does it take to save a deposit in Bradford?
Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 2.9 years in Bradford. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
Is gigabit broadband available in Bradford?
100% of premises in Bradford are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
What's the unemployment rate in Bradford?
7.0% of 16-64 residents in Bradford are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
How many neighbourhoods are in Bradford?
Bradford contains 63 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 312 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
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All sub-areas in Bradford

Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.