Property market
The five-year median is £220,000 from 1 recorded sale in HD8 8HE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Kirklees is £205,773 in June 2026, up 5.4% year on year.
HD8 8HE
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 8HE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD8
- Postcode sector
- HD8 8
- Latitude
- 53.598209
- Longitude
- -1.693804
- British National Grid easting
- 420,362
- British National Grid northing
- 411,335
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
- E00056036
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 056A · E01011118
- 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
41 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 76, Huddersfield Road, Shelley, Huddersfield, HD8 8HE | 6 November 2024 | £220,000 |
| 84, Huddersfield Road, Shelley, Huddersfield, HD8 8HE | 25 June 2021 | £270,000 |
| 76, Huddersfield Road, Shelley, Huddersfield, HD8 8HE | 3 June 2021 | £175,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 408 m
Shelley First School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Kirkburton CofE (VA) First School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.8 km
Kirkburton Middle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 172
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 73
- Public order 23
- Anti social behaviour 21
- Burglary 13
- Other theft 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 32
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- HD8 8 residents
- 11,482
16 female, 16 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 0.3% 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
- 94.7%
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
KIRKBURTON HEALTH CENTRE
5A SHELLEY LANE, KIRKBURTON, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 0SJ
ODS code B85026
1.2 km
SHEPLEY PRIMARY CARE LIMITED
25 JOS LANE, SHEPLEY, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 8DJ
ODS code B85005
1.8 km
SKELMANTHORPE FAMILY DOCTORS
COMMERCIAL ROAD, SKELMANTHORPE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 9DA
ODS code B85061
2.9 km
LEPTON AND KIRKHEATON SURGERIES
HIGHGATE LANE, LEPTON, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 0HH
ODS code B85031
4.1 km
DEARNE VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE
WAKEFIELD ROAD, SCISSETT, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 9JL
ODS code B85002
4.6 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
- 0.0 miles
Westerly Way
BCT · Shelley
- 0.1 miles
Shelley Village Hall
BCT · Shelley
- 0.1 miles
Westerly Way
BCT · Shelley
- 0.1 miles
Shelley Village Hall
BCT · Shelley
- 0.2 miles
Star Garage
BCT · Shelley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 056A, 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
25,543 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. Shelley First School is the nearest published school at 408 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
172 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.333 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.