Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 4 secondary schools. Emley First School is the nearest published school at 112 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HD8 9TJ
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HD8 9TJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 2000
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD8
- Postcode sector
- HD8 9
- Latitude
- 53.615694
- Longitude
- -1.631127
- British National Grid easting
- 424,500
- British National Grid northing
- 413,300
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
- E00056004
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 054D · E01011119
- 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
- 19
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 4
- 112 m
Emley First School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Flockton CofE (C) First School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.1 km
Edan Court School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 61
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 33
- Public order 5
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other crime 4
- Drugs 3
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
SKELMANTHORPE FAMILY DOCTORS
COMMERCIAL ROAD, SKELMANTHORPE, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 9DA
ODS code B85061
3.0 km
DEARNE VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE
WAKEFIELD ROAD, SCISSETT, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 9JL
ODS code B85002
3.1 km
MIDDLESTOWN
MIDDLESTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW ROAD, MIDDLESTOWN, WAKEFIELD, WF4 4PA
ODS code B87001
4.4 km
KIRKBURTON HEALTH CENTRE
5A SHELLEY LANE, KIRKBURTON, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 0SJ
ODS code B85026
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Emley Church Street
BCT · Emley
- 0.0 miles
Emley Church Street
BCT · Emley
- 0.2 miles
Emley Cross
BCT · Emley
- 0.2 miles
School Lane
BCT · Emley
- 0.2 miles
School Lane
BCT · Emley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 054D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,576 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
61 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 33 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.