Crap Towns / Bradford / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Bradford?
In January 2026, 1.2% of premises in Bradford couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 2.4 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 193 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 96.3% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 193 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 1,545 | 1.2% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 129,122 | 96.3% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford | – | 1.2 |
| Shelf and Northowram | 7.1 km | 1.1 |
| Cleckheaton | 8.1 km | 0.8 |
| Baildon | 6.1 km | 0.6 |
| Gomersal and Birkenshaw | 6.3 km | 0.6 |
| Queensbury | 6.6 km | 0.6 |
| Drighlington | 8.0 km | 0.4 |
| Bingley | 8.0 km | 0.2 |
| Shipley | 4.3 km | 0.1 |
| Thornton | 5.3 km | 0.1 |
| Pudsey | 5.9 km | less than 0.1 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |