Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 9 secondary schools. Hill View Academy is the nearest published school at 435 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HD5 8YJ
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 8YJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD5
- Postcode sector
- HD5 8
- Latitude
- 53.638893
- Longitude
- -1.749622
- British National Grid easting
- 416,652
- British National Grid northing
- 415,847
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
- E00055485
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 040B · E01011006
- 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
- 60
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 9
- 435 m
Hill View Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 587 m
Southgate School
Community special school
- 909 m
All Hallows' CofE (VA) Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,450
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,039
- Anti social behaviour 226
- Shoplifting 198
- Public order 191
- Other theft 189
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.
GP practices
25
within 5 km straight-line
DALTON SURGERY
364A WAKEFIELD ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD5 8DY
ODS code B85010
643 m
THE ALMONDBURY SURGERY
ALMONDBURY SURGERY, LONGCROFT, HUDDERSFIELD, HD5 8XW
ODS code B85023
790 m
THE JUNCTION SURGERY
BIRKHOUSE LANE, MOLDGREEN, HUDDERSFIELD, HD5 8BE
ODS code B85660
835 m
THE WATERLOO PRACTICE
WATERLOO HEALTH CENTRE, WAKEFIELD ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD5 9XP
ODS code B85024
1.1 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE
SAND STREET, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3AL
ODS code B85062
1.8 km
NEWSOME SURGERY LIMITED
1 CHURCH LANE, NEWSOME, HUDDERSFIELD, HD4 6JE
ODS code B85037
2.5 km
LEPTON AND KIRKHEATON SURGERIES
HIGHGATE LANE, LEPTON, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 0HH
ODS code B85031
2.6 km
THE WHITEHOUSE CENTRE
PRINCESS ROYAL HEALTH CENTRE, GREENHEAD ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4EW
ODS code B85659
2.8 km
GREENHEAD FAMILY DOCTORS
15 WENTWORTH STREET, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 5PX
ODS code B85060
3.0 km
ROSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
140 FITZWILLIAM STREET, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 5PU
ODS code B85058
3.0 km
THORNTON LODGE SURGERY
60 THORNTON LODGE ROAD, THORNTON LODGE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3SB
ODS code B85044
3.1 km
LOCKWOOD SURGERY
3 MELTHAM ROAD, LOCKWOOD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3XH
ODS code B85641
3.1 km
DR HANDA & PARTNER
34 FARTOWN GREEN ROAD, FARTOWN, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 1AE
ODS code B85611
3.3 km
MELTHAM ROAD SURGERY
9 MELTHAM ROAD, LOCKWOOD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3UP
ODS code B85016
3.3 km
CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
5 COBCROFT ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 2RU
ODS code B85614
3.3 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FARTOWN GRANGE, SPAINES ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 2QA
ODS code B85028
3.3 km
WOODHOUSE HILL SURGERY
71A WOODHOUSE HILL, FARTOWN, HUDDERSFIELD, HD2 1DH
ODS code B85048
3.4 km
PADDOCK AND LONGWOOD FAMILY PRACTICE
SPEEDWELL SURGERY, 1 SPEEDWELL STREET, PADDOCK, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4TS
ODS code B85042
3.7 km
MARSH SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, 42 WESTBOURNE ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4LE
ODS code B85623
3.9 km
WESTBOURNE SURGERY
11A ST. JAMES ROAD, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 4QR
ODS code B85636
4.0 km
Showing 20 of 25 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Fernside Avenue
BCT · Almondbury
- 0.1 miles
De Lacy Avenue
BCT · Almondbury
- 0.2 miles
Town End
BCT · Almondbury
- 0.2 miles
Fernside Avenue Middle
BCT · Almondbury
- 0.2 miles
Town End
BCT · Almondbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 040B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,612 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
2,450 published events cover 12 months, averaging 204.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,039 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.