Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 8 secondary schools. Hill View Academy is the nearest published school at 308 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HD5 8FD
Almondbury · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Almondbury
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield
- Postcode district
- HD5
- Postcode sector
- HD5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HD5 8FD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2021
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD5
- Postcode sector
- HD5 8
- Latitude
- 53.639061
- Longitude
- -1.739533
- British National Grid easting
- 417,319
- British National Grid northing
- 415,868
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Almondbury · E05016501
- Parish or community
- E43000188
- Westminster constituency
- Huddersfield · E14001297
- Output area
- E00055483
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 040A · E01011004
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 040 · E02002310
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 HD5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 8
- 308 m
Hill View Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 320 m
Southgate School
Community special school
- 991 m
Dalton School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,005
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 823
- Shoplifting 192
- Anti social behaviour 171
- Other theft 164
- Public order 151
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HD5 8 residents
- 13,793
Age bands in HD5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.2%
2,328 residents
1,559 residents
3,385 residents
3,471 residents
2,715 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
24
within 5 km
THE WATERLOO PRACTICE
WATERLOO HEALTH CENTRE, WAKEFIELD ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD5 9XP
ODS code B85024
718 m
DALTON SURGERY
364A WAKEFIELD ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD5 8DY
ODS code B85010
980 m
THE ALMONDBURY SURGERY
ALMONDBURY SURGERY, LONGCROFT, HUDDERSFIELD, HD5 8XW
ODS code B85023
1.1 km
THE JUNCTION SURGERY
BIRKHOUSE LANE, MOLDGREEN, HUDDERSFIELD, HD5 8BE
ODS code B85660
1.4 km
LEPTON AND KIRKHEATON SURGERIES
HIGHGATE LANE, LEPTON, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 0HH
ODS code B85031
2.0 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE
SAND STREET, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3AL
ODS code B85062
2.4 km
NEWSOME SURGERY LIMITED
1 CHURCH LANE, NEWSOME, HUDDERSFIELD, HD4 6JE
ODS code B85037
3.2 km
THE WHITEHOUSE CENTRE
PRINCESS ROYAL HEALTH CENTRE, GREENHEAD ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4EW
ODS code B85659
3.5 km
GREENHEAD FAMILY DOCTORS
15 WENTWORTH STREET, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 5PX
ODS code B85060
3.6 km
ROSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
140 FITZWILLIAM STREET, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 5PU
ODS code B85058
3.6 km
DR HANDA & PARTNER
34 FARTOWN GREEN ROAD, FARTOWN, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 1AE
ODS code B85611
3.7 km
WOODHOUSE HILL SURGERY
71A WOODHOUSE HILL, FARTOWN, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 1DH
ODS code B85048
3.7 km
THORNTON LODGE SURGERY
60 THORNTON LODGE ROAD, THORNTON LODGE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3SB
ODS code B85044
3.7 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FARTOWN GRANGE, SPAINES ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 2QA
ODS code B85028
3.8 km
LOCKWOOD SURGERY
3 MELTHAM ROAD, LOCKWOOD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3XH
ODS code B85641
3.8 km
CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
5 COBCROFT ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 2RU
ODS code B85614
3.8 km
MELTHAM ROAD SURGERY
9 MELTHAM ROAD, LOCKWOOD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3UP
ODS code B85016
4.0 km
KIRKBURTON HEALTH CENTRE
5A SHELLEY LANE, KIRKBURTON, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 0SJ
ODS code B85026
4.3 km
PADDOCK AND LONGWOOD FAMILY PRACTICE
SPEEDWELL SURGERY, 1 SPEEDWELL STREET, PADDOCK, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4TS
ODS code B85042
4.4 km
MARSH SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, 42 WESTBOURNE ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4LE
ODS code B85623
4.5 km
Showing 20 of 24 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Aldonley
BCT · Almondbury
- 0.0 miles
Aldonley
BCT · Almondbury
- 0.1 miles
Fernside Park
BCT · Almondbury
- 0.1 miles
Fernside Park
BCT · Almondbury
- 0.2 miles
Fleminghouse Lane
BCT · Almondbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 040A, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,231 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,005 published events cover 12 months, averaging 167.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 823 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.