Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Nields Academy is the nearest published school at 454 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HD7 5XH
Colne Valley West · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Colne Valley West
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley
- Postcode district
- HD7
- Postcode sector
- HD7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HD7 5XH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1982
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD7
- Postcode sector
- HD7 5
- Latitude
- 53.623396
- Longitude
- -1.885057
- British National Grid easting
- 407,700
- British National Grid northing
- 414,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Colne Valley West · E05016508
- Parish or community
- E43000188
- Westminster constituency
- Colne Valley · E14001177
- Output area
- E00055794
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 049D · E01011078
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 049 · E02002319
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 HD7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 454 m
Nields Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 471 m
Slaithwaite Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.1 km
Wilberlee Junior and Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 429
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 176
- Shoplifting 50
- Anti social behaviour 45
- Vehicle crime 33
- Public order 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HD7 5 residents
- 10,548
Age bands in HD7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
1,819 residents
1,002 residents
2,706 residents
3,000 residents
1,824 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
COLNE VALLEY GROUP PRACTICE
WEST WING, GROUND FLOOR, THE GLOBE, BRIDGE STREET, SLAITHWAITE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD7 5JN
ODS code B85054
354 m
SLAITHWAITE HEALTH CENTRE
NEW STREET, SLAITHWAITE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD7 5AB
ODS code B85059
442 m
FIELDHEAD SURGERY
FIELDHEAD, LEYMOOR ROAD, GOLCAR, HUDDERSFIELD, HD7 4QQ
ODS code B85051
2.9 km
MELTHAM GROUP PRACTICE
1 THE COBBLES, MELTHAM, HOLMFIRTH, HD9 5QQ
ODS code B85032
4.0 km
NEW STREET & NETHERTON GROUP PRACTICE
21 NEW STREET, MILNSBRIDGE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD3 4LB
ODS code B85036
4.0 km
NOOK SURGERY
144 MOOR HILL ROAD, SALENDINE NOOK, HUDDERSFIELD, HD3 3XA
ODS code Y06659
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Nabbs Lane
BCT · Hill Top
- 0.1 miles
Nabbs Lane
BCT · Hill Top
- 0.1 miles
Grove Street
BCT · Hill Top
- 0.1 miles
Grove Street
BCT · Hill Top
- 0.1 miles
Bank Gate
BCT · Hill Top
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 049D, 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
15,792 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
429 published events cover 12 months, averaging 35.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 176 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.