Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 2 secondary schools. Holmfirth High School is the nearest published school at 536 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HD9 7LH
Holme Valley South · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Holme Valley South
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley
- Postcode district
- HD9
- Postcode sector
- HD9 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HD9 7LH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2001
- Terminated
- 1 November 2003
- Postcode area
- HD
- Postcode district
- HD9
- Postcode sector
- HD9 7
- Latitude
- 53.579266
- Longitude
- -1.776977
- British National Grid easting
- 414,864
- British National Grid northing
- 409,207
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Holme Valley South · E05016518
- Parish or community
- E04012085
- Westminster constituency
- Colne Valley · E14001177
- Output area
- E00056347
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 059F · E01011187
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 059 · E02002329
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 HD9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 2
- 536 m
Holmfirth High School
Community school
- 713 m
New Mill Infant School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.0 km
New Mill Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 617
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 304
- Public order 69
- Anti social behaviour 46
- Criminal damage and arson 39
- Shoplifting 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HD9 7 residents
- 5,133
Age bands in HD9 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.8%
921 residents
541 residents
1,129 residents
1,576 residents
1,096 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
ELMWOOD FAMILY DOCTORS
HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, THONGSBRIDGE, HOLMFIRTH, HD9 3TR
ODS code B85006
431 m
OAKLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
161 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, THONGSBRIDGE, HOLMFIRTH, HD9 3TQ
ODS code B85610
593 m
HONLEY SURGERY
MARSH GARDENS, HONLEY, HOLMFIRTH, HD9 6AG
ODS code B85022
2.8 km
SHEPLEY PRIMARY CARE LIMITED
25 JOS LANE, SHEPLEY, HUDDERSFIELD, HD8 8DJ
ODS code B85005
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Woodlands Grove
BCT · Wooldale
- 0.0 miles
Woodlands Grove
BCT · Wooldale
- 0.1 miles
Town End Rd Bank Lane
BCT · Wooldale
- 0.1 miles
Town End Rd Bank Lane
BCT · Wooldale
- 0.1 miles
Cliff Rd Town End Road
BCT · Wooldale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 059F, 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
25,732 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
617 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 304 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.