Schools
96 open schools are in scope, including 65 primary and 11 secondary schools. Lawnswood School is the nearest published school at 182 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LS16 5AE
Weetwood · Leeds · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Weetwood
- Local authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley
- Postcode district
- LS16
- Postcode sector
- LS16 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LS16 5AE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LS
- Postcode district
- LS16
- Postcode sector
- LS16 5
- Latitude
- 53.835940
- Longitude
- -1.592347
- British National Grid easting
- 426,925
- British National Grid northing
- 437,818
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Leeds · E08000035
- Electoral ward
- Weetwood · E05011413
- Parish or community
- E43000294
- Westminster constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley · E14001319
- Output area
- E00058951
- Lower layer super output area
- Leeds 109A · E01011685
- Middle layer super output area
- Leeds 109 · E02006852
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 LS16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 96
- Primary
- 65
- Secondary
- 11
- 182 m
Lawnswood School
Community school
- 497 m
St Chad's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 616 m
Richmond House School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,904
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 787
- Vehicle crime 167
- Public order 152
- Criminal damage and arson 142
- Burglary 136
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- LS16 5 residents
- 7,428
3 female, 1 male
Age bands in LS16 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.4%
1,103 residents
871 residents
2,092 residents
1,672 residents
1,211 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LS16 5 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
23
within 5 km
DR S HUTCHINSON & PARTNERS, IW&H M PRAC
IVESON APPROACH, LEEDS, LS16 6FR
ODS code B86044
1.4 km
VESPER ROAD
43 VESPER ROAD, LEEDS, LS5 3QT
ODS code B86041
1.8 km
BURTON CROFT SURGERY
1 SHIRE OAK STREET, HEADINGLEY, LEEDS, LS6 2AF
ODS code B86030
2.0 km
MEANWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
548 MEANWOOD ROAD, LEEDS, LS6 4JN
ODS code B86059
2.0 km
ABBEY GRANGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE, NORMAN STREET, LEEDS, LS5 3JN
ODS code B86068
2.1 km
KIRKSTALL LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
216 KIRKSTALL LANE, LEEDS, LS6 3DS
ODS code B86109
2.1 km
LAUREL BANK SURGERY
216 KIRKSTALL LANE, LEEDS, LS6 3DS
ODS code B86086
2.1 km
HIGHFIELD SURGERY
HOLTDALE APPROACH, LEEDS, LS16 7RX
ODS code B86004
2.4 km
ALWOODLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
SAXON MOUNT, MOORTOWN, LEEDS, LS17 5DT
ODS code B86008
2.9 km
DIAMOND MEDICAL GROUP
RUTLAND LODGE, SCOTT HALL ROAD, LEEDS, LS7 3RA
ODS code B86019
3.2 km
BURLEY PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
273 BURLEY ROAD, LEEDS, LS4 2EL
ODS code B86069
3.3 km
MANOR PARK SURGERY
BELLMOUNT CLOSE, BRAMLEY, LEEDS, LS13 2UP
ODS code B86015
3.4 km
HYDE PARK SURGERY
WOODSLEY ROAD, LEEDS, LS6 1SG
ODS code B86025
3.6 km
BRAMLEY VILLAGE HEALTH & WELLBEING CTR
16 HIGHFIELD ROAD, BRAMLEY, LEEDS, LS13 2BL
ODS code B86104
3.7 km
CRAVEN ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
60 CRAVEN ROAD, LEEDS, LS6 2RX
ODS code B86017
3.8 km
THE NORTH LEEDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
355 HARROGATE ROAD, LEEDS, LS17 6PZ
ODS code B86013
3.9 km
WOODHOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
CAMBRIDGE ROAD, LEEDS, LS6 2SF
ODS code B86049
3.9 km
ALLERTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6 MONTREAL AVENUE, LEEDS, LS7 4LF
ODS code B86039
4.0 km
LEEDS STUDENT MEDICAL PRACTICE
4 BLENHEIM COURT, LEEDS, LS2 9AE
ODS code B86110
4.2 km
NEWTON SURGERY
305 CHAPELTOWN ROAD, LEEDS, LS7 3JT
ODS code B86666
4.2 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
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
- 0.1 miles
Lawnswood School
BCT · Weetwood
- 0.1 miles
Lawnswood School
BCT · Weetwood
- 0.2 miles
Weetwood Hall
BCT · Weetwood
- 0.2 miles
Weetwood Hall
BCT · Weetwood
- 0.2 miles
Kepstorn Road
BCT · West Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leeds 109A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,402 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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.
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
Recorded crime
1,904 published events cover 12 months, averaging 158.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 787 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.