Crap Towns / Leeds / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Leeds?
In January 2026, 1.5% of premises in Leeds couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 3.0 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 186 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 96.5% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 186 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 3,976 | 1.5% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 251,524 | 96.5% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Leeds | – | 1.5 |
| Gomersal and Birkenshaw | 11.0 km | 0.6 |
| Drighlington | 9.1 km | 0.4 |
| Morley | 7.5 km | 0.3 |
| Batley | 11.3 km | 0.3 |
| East Ardsley | 9.0 km | 0.3 |
| Rothwell | 7.3 km | 0.2 |
| Gildersome | 7.7 km | 0.2 |
| Yeadon | 10.2 km | 0.2 |
| Pudsey | 8.1 km | less than 0.1 |
| Rawdon | 9.2 km | 0.0 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |