Schools
74 open schools are in scope, including 48 primary and 9 secondary schools. Birkby Junior School is the nearest published school at 891 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HD2 2YX
Greenhead · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Greenhead
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield
- Postcode district
- HD2
- Postcode sector
- HD2 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HD2 2YX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD2
- Postcode sector
- HD2 2
- Latitude
- 53.665032
- Longitude
- -1.792901
- British National Grid easting
- 413,782
- British National Grid northing
- 418,746
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Greenhead · E05016515
- Parish or community
- E43000188
- Westminster constituency
- Huddersfield · E14001297
- Output area
- E00055652
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 027A · E01011039
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 027 · E02002297
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore HD2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 74
- Primary
- 48
- Secondary
- 9
- 891 m
Birkby Junior School
Community school
- 955 m
Birkby Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Fixby Junior and Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,460
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,133
- Public order 219
- Other theft 177
- Vehicle crime 163
- Criminal damage and arson 145
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HD2 2 residents
- 13,996
Age bands in HD2 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.1%
2,808 residents
1,729 residents
3,744 residents
3,530 residents
2,433 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
32
within 5 km straight-line
BIRKBY HEALTH CENTRE
37 NORWOOD ROAD, BIRKBY, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 2YD
ODS code B85634
484 m
CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
5 COBCROFT ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 2RU
ODS code B85614
748 m
THE GRANGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FARTOWN GRANGE, SPAINES ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 2QA
ODS code B85028
821 m
DR HANDA & PARTNER
34 FARTOWN GREEN ROAD, FARTOWN, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 1AE
ODS code B85611
1.1 km
WOODHOUSE HILL SURGERY
71A WOODHOUSE HILL, FARTOWN, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 1DH
ODS code B85048
1.5 km
MARSH SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, 42 WESTBOURNE ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4LE
ODS code B85623
1.7 km
GREENHEAD FAMILY DOCTORS
15 WENTWORTH STREET, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 5PX
ODS code B85060
1.7 km
WESTBOURNE SURGERY
11A ST. JAMES ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4QR
ODS code B85636
1.8 km
ROSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
140 FITZWILLIAM STREET, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 5PU
ODS code B85058
1.8 km
LINDLEY GROUP PRACTICE LTD
62 ACRE STREET, LINDLEY, HUDDERSFIELD, HD3 3DY
ODS code B85027
2.0 km
THE WHITEHOUSE CENTRE
PRINCESS ROYAL HEALTH CENTRE, GREENHEAD ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4EW
ODS code B85659
2.1 km
THE LINDLEY VILLAGE SURG.
THOMAS STREET, LINDLEY, HUDDERSFIELD, HD3 3JD
ODS code B85033
2.2 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE
SAND STREET, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3AL
ODS code B85062
2.6 km
RASTRICK HEALTH CENTRE
CHAPEL CROFT, RASTRICK, BRIGHOUSE, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 3NA
ODS code B84014
2.6 km
PADDOCK AND LONGWOOD FAMILY PRACTICE
SPEEDWELL SURGERY, 1 SPEEDWELL STREET, PADDOCK, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4TS
ODS code B85042
2.7 km
THORNTON LODGE SURGERY
60 THORNTON LODGE ROAD, THORNTON LODGE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3SB
ODS code B85044
3.0 km
CROSLAND MOOR SURGERY
11 PARK ROAD WEST, HUDDERSFIELD, HD4 5RX
ODS code Y04266
3.2 km
LONGROYDE SURGERY
38 CASTLE AVENUE, RASTRICK, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 3HT
ODS code B84623
3.2 km
THE JUNCTION SURGERY
BIRKHOUSE LANE, MOLDGREEN, HUDDERSFIELD, HD5 8BE
ODS code B85660
3.3 km
NOOK SURGERY
144 MOOR HILL ROAD, SALENDINE NOOK, HUDDERSFIELD, HD3 3XA
ODS code Y06659
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 32 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
York Avenue Top
BCT · Cowcliffe
- 0.1 miles
York Avenue
BCT · Cowcliffe
- 0.1 miles
York Avenue Top
BCT · Cowcliffe
- 0.1 miles
York Avenue
BCT · Cowcliffe
- 0.1 miles
Cowcliffe Hill Bottom
BCT · Birkby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 027A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
10,032 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,460 published events cover 12 months, averaging 205 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,133 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.