Neighbourhoods in Leeds
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.
107 neighbourhoods · 488 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
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.
Where to look in Leeds
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Leeds. 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.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Leeds median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Leeds.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Leeds
Crime in Leeds runs at in line with the national average. Bottom quartile (#285 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 96.6, 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.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Leeds
100% of schools serving Leeds are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Leeds
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Leeds
Leeds has 0.62 jobs per resident locally. Top quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Leeds
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 Leeds?
- The median monthly rent across Leeds is £1,130, 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 Leeds?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Leeds by estimated median rent is Armley & New Wortley at approximately £837/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Leeds?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Leeds is Beeston East at 95/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Leeds a safe area?
- Leeds has an average safety score of 46/100 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 Leeds?
- The most common council tax band in Leeds is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £1,916. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Leeds.
- What is the average salary in Leeds?
- The median annual resident salary in Leeds is £31,679, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Leeds, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Leeds?
- The average property price in Leeds is approximately £244,218 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 Leeds?
- Gross rental yield in Leeds 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 Leeds?
- 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 3.7 years in Leeds. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Leeds?
- 100% of premises in Leeds 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 Leeds?
- 4.7% of 16-64 residents in Leeds 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 Leeds?
- Leeds contains 107 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 488 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.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Leeds
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.
- Leeds 053C
- Leeds 110G
- Leeds 075D
- Leeds 065A
- Leeds 063B
- Leeds 086D
- Leeds 082C
- Leeds 053B
- Leeds 111B
- Leeds 055G
- Leeds 112F
- Leeds 055F
- Leeds 042E
- Leeds 110E
- Leeds 086C
- Leeds 063D
- Leeds 048C
- Leeds 091A
- Leeds 037D
- Leeds 102F
- Leeds 075E
- Leeds 044A
- Leeds 086A
- Leeds 078B
- Leeds 065B
- Leeds 110C
- Leeds 048D
- Leeds 086B
- Leeds 071A
- Leeds 044G
- Leeds 070C
- Leeds 067H
- Leeds 045A
- Leeds 042D
- Leeds 109F
- Leeds 053D
- Leeds 053A
- Leeds 044E
- Leeds 056D
- Leeds 110A
- Leeds 056B
- Leeds 111A
- Leeds 071C
- Leeds 056C
- Leeds 056E
- Leeds 056A
- Leeds 085B
- Leeds 082G
- Leeds 034C
- Leeds 075F
- Leeds 055A
- Leeds 082D
- Leeds 064B
- Leeds 109A
- Leeds 054A
- Leeds 110B
- Leeds 048A
- Leeds 054B
- Leeds 112A
- Leeds 047C
- Leeds 055J
- Leeds 085A
- Leeds 059E
- Leeds 042A
- Leeds 063F
- Leeds 044D
- Leeds 090A
- Leeds 025E
- Leeds 055I
- Leeds 109E
- Leeds 110F
- Leeds 054D
- Leeds 023C
- Leeds 015A
- Leeds 071B
- Leeds 070A
- Leeds 054E
- Leeds 071D
- Leeds 065C
- Leeds 091B
Showing 80 of 488 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.