Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Skelmanthorpe Academy is the nearest published school at 832 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HD8 9FS
Denby Dale · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Ward
- Denby Dale
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale
- Postcode district
- HD8
- Postcode sector
- HD8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HD8 9FS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD8
- Postcode sector
- HD8 9
- Latitude
- 53.598372
- Longitude
- -1.639120
- British National Grid easting
- 423,981
- British National Grid northing
- 411,370
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
- E00056003
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 054A · E01011109
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 054 · E02002324
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
- 18
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 832 m
Skelmanthorpe Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Scissett Middle School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Joseph Norton Academy
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 433
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 207
- Public order 54
- Anti social behaviour 44
- Other theft 31
- Burglary 30
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HD8 9 residents
- 11,038
Age bands in HD8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.3%
1,832 residents
1,052 residents
2,381 residents
3,215 residents
2,725 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
SKELMANTHORPE FAMILY DOCTORS
COMMERCIAL ROAD, SKELMANTHORPE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 9DA
ODS code B85061
1.1 km
DEARNE VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE
WAKEFIELD ROAD, SCISSETT, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 9JL
ODS code B85002
1.4 km
KIRKBURTON HEALTH CENTRE
5A SHELLEY LANE, KIRKBURTON, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 0SJ
ODS code B85026
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
New Lane
BCT · Skelmanthorpe
- 0.6 miles
New Lane
BCT · Skelmanthorpe
- 0.6 miles
Queen Street
BCT · Skelmanthorpe
- 0.6 miles
Queen Street
BCT · Skelmanthorpe
- 0.7 miles
Busker Lane East Fold
BCT · Scissett
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 054A, 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
26,991 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
433 published events cover 12 months, averaging 36.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 207 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.