Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Shepley First School is the nearest published school at 976 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HD8 8BH
Denby Dale · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Denby Dale
- 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 8BH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD8
- Postcode sector
- HD8 8
- Latitude
- 53.574632
- Longitude
- -1.704228
- British National Grid easting
- 419,683
- British National Grid northing
- 408,709
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Denby Dale · E05016511
- Parish or community
- E04000181
- Westminster constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale · E14001418
- Output area
- E00056028
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 057F · E01011117
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 057 · E02002327
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 976 m
Shepley First School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Birdsedge First School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Cumberworth CofE First School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 144
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 67
- Other theft 16
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Burglary 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HD8 8 residents
- 11,482
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
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
SHEPLEY PRIMARY CARE LIMITED
25 JOS LANE, SHEPLEY, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 8DJ
ODS code B85005
1.3 km
KIRKBURTON HEALTH CENTRE
5A SHELLEY LANE, KIRKBURTON, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 0SJ
ODS code B85026
3.8 km
SKELMANTHORPE FAMILY DOCTORS
COMMERCIAL ROAD, SKELMANTHORPE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 9DA
ODS code B85061
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sovereign Junction
BCT · Shepley
- 0.1 miles
Sovereign Junction
BCT · Shepley
- 0.1 miles
Sovereign Inn
BCT · Shepley
- 0.1 miles
Sovereign Junction
BCT · Shepley
- 0.2 miles
Cumberworth Lane
BCT · Birds Edge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 057F, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,980 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
144 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 67 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.