Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Shepley First School is the nearest published school at 374 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HD8 8AJ
Kirkburton · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Huddersfield
- Ward
- Kirkburton
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale
- Postcode district
- HD8
- Postcode sector
- HD8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HD8 8AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD8
- Postcode sector
- HD8 8
- Latitude
- 53.584047
- Longitude
- -1.713467
- British National Grid easting
- 419,067
- British National Grid northing
- 409,754
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Kirkburton · E05016519
- Parish or community
- E04012086
- Westminster constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale · E14001418
- Output area
- E00056384
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 056C · E01011198
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 056 · E02002326
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 HD8
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1a, The Nooks, Shepley, Huddersfield, HD8 8AJ | 10 January 2020 | £460,000 |
| 5, The Nooks, Shepley, Huddersfield, HD8 8AJ | 11 August 2017 | £189,995 |
| 1, The Nooks, Shepley, Huddersfield, HD8 8AJ | 14 September 2007 | £338,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 374 m
Shepley First School
Community school
- 1.6 km
Shelley First School
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
Cumberworth CofE First School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 158
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 73
- Other theft 20
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Burglary 12
- Criminal damage and arson 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- HD8 8 residents
- 11,482
8 female, 6 male
Age bands in HD8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.8%
1,827 residents
1,051 residents
2,280 residents
3,528 residents
2,707 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HD8 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
5
within 5 km
SHEPLEY PRIMARY CARE LIMITED
25 JOS LANE, SHEPLEY, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 8DJ
ODS code B85005
206 m
KIRKBURTON HEALTH CENTRE
5A SHELLEY LANE, KIRKBURTON, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 0SJ
ODS code B85026
2.8 km
SKELMANTHORPE FAMILY DOCTORS
COMMERCIAL ROAD, SKELMANTHORPE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 9DA
ODS code B85061
4.2 km
ELMWOOD FAMILY DOCTORS
HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, THONGSBRIDGE, HOLMFIRTH, HD9 3TR
ODS code B85006
4.7 km
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
161 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, THONGSBRIDGE, HOLMFIRTH, HD9 3TQ
ODS code B85610
4.8 km
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cliffe Road
BCT · Shepley
- 0.1 miles
Cliffe Road
BCT · Shepley
- 0.1 miles
Shepley Library
BCT · Shepley
- 0.1 miles
Shepley Library
BCT · Shepley
- 0.2 miles
Shepley Black Bull
BCT · Shepley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 056C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,081 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
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
158 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 73 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.