Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Joseph Norton Academy is the nearest published school at 280 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HD8 9LB
Denby Dale · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Huddersfield
- 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 9LB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD8
- Postcode sector
- HD8 9
- Latitude
- 53.586281
- Longitude
- -1.629766
- British National Grid easting
- 424,607
- British National Grid northing
- 410,028
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
- E00055997
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 057A · E01011110
- 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
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Highbridge Lodge, Highbridge, Scissett, Huddersfield, HD8 9LB | 5 December 2019 | £685,000 |
| Cornmill Cottage, 1, Highbridge, Scissett, Huddersfield, HD8 9LB | 10 September 2014 | £400,000 |
| Highbridge Lodge, Highbridge, Scissett, Huddersfield, HD8 9LB | 21 October 2010 | £485,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 280 m
Joseph Norton Academy
Academy special converter
- 543 m
Scissett Middle School
Academy converter
- 609 m
Scissett Church of England Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 458
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 221
- Public order 50
- Anti social behaviour 43
- Burglary 37
- Other theft 34
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- HD8 9 residents
- 11,038
2 female, 1 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HD8 9 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
- 0%
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
2
within 5 km
DEARNE VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE
WAKEFIELD ROAD, SCISSETT, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 9JL
ODS code B85002
318 m
SKELMANTHORPE FAMILY DOCTORS
COMMERCIAL ROAD, SKELMANTHORPE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 9DA
ODS code B85061
1.5 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Nortonthorpe Mills
BCT · Scissett
- 0.1 miles
Nortonthorpe Mills
BCT · Scissett
- 0.2 miles
Busker Lane
BCT · Scissett
- 0.2 miles
Busker Lane
BCT · Scissett
- 0.2 miles
Crown Street
BCT · Scissett
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 057A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,425 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 1
- 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
458 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 221 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.