Heaton is a ward within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, West Yorkshire, England.

[1] Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the ward includes the villages of Frizinghall, Heaton and Daisy Hill, extending to Chellow Heights Reservoir on the western edge and the Bradford-Shipley railway line on the eastern edge.

An ancient woodland, Heaton Woods, stretches from the village to Shipley.

Priestley grew up in Heaton and John Braine attended St. Bede's Grammar School.

The area became infamous in 1981 when Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", who lived at 6 Garden Lane, was arrested.