Garforth is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It sits in the Garforth and Swillington ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds East parliamentary constituency. As of 2011, the population of Garforth was 14,957, having decreased since the last census. It is 6.5 miles east of Central Leeds, 16 miles south-west of York and 10 miles north of Wakefield. It is mostly an Un-Parished area, like much of Greater Leeds.