Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 9 secondary schools. Lighthouse School Leeds is the nearest published school at 475 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LS16 6FD
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LS16 6FD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2009
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LS
- Postcode district
- LS16
- Postcode sector
- LS16 6
- Latitude
- 53.848517
- Longitude
- -1.618051
- British National Grid easting
- 425,226
- British National Grid northing
- 439,208
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
- E00057394
- Lower layer super output area
- Leeds 019B · E01011388
- Middle layer super output area
- Leeds 019 · E02002348
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
- 63
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 9
- 475 m
Lighthouse School Leeds
Free schools special
- 793 m
Cookridge Primary School
Foundation school
- 908 m
Holy Name Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,475
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,161
- Public order 199
- Anti social behaviour 191
- Criminal damage and arson 190
- Vehicle crime 176
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- LS16 6 residents
- 10,174
9 female, 2 male
Age bands in LS16 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
1,890 residents
1,022 residents
2,956 residents
2,495 residents
1,769 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LS16 6 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
14
within 5 km
DR S HUTCHINSON & PARTNERS, IW&H M PRAC
IVESON APPROACH, LEEDS, LS16 6FR
ODS code B86044
948 m
HIGHFIELD SURGERY
HOLTDALE APPROACH, LEEDS, LS16 7RX
ODS code B86004
1.1 km
VESPER ROAD
43 VESPER ROAD, LEEDS, LS5 3QT
ODS code B86041
2.4 km
ABBEY GRANGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE, NORMAN STREET, LEEDS, LS5 3JN
ODS code B86068
3.5 km
MANOR PARK SURGERY
BELLMOUNT CLOSE, BRAMLEY, LEEDS, LS13 2UP
ODS code B86015
3.9 km
KIRKSTALL LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
216 KIRKSTALL LANE, LEEDS, LS6 3DS
ODS code B86109
4.1 km
LAUREL BANK SURGERY
216 KIRKSTALL LANE, LEEDS, LS6 3DS
ODS code B86086
4.1 km
BURTON CROFT SURGERY
1 SHIRE OAK STREET, HEADINGLEY, LEEDS, LS6 2AF
ODS code B86030
4.1 km
MEANWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
548 MEANWOOD ROAD, LEEDS, LS6 4JN
ODS code B86059
4.2 km
ALWOODLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
SAXON MOUNT, MOORTOWN, LEEDS, LS17 5DT
ODS code B86008
4.4 km
BRAMLEY VILLAGE HEALTH & WELLBEING CTR
16 HIGHFIELD ROAD, BRAMLEY, LEEDS, LS13 2BL
ODS code B86104
4.5 km
GUISELEY AND YEADON MEDICAL PRACTICE
YEADON HEALTH CENTRE, 17 SOUTH VIEW ROAD,YEADON, YEADON, LEEDS, LS19 7PS
ODS code B86038
4.7 km
AIREBOROUGH FAMILY PRACTICE
1 SUFFOLK COURT, YEADON, LEEDS, LS19 7JN
ODS code B86070
4.8 km
AIRE VALLEY SURGERY
SILVER LANE SURGERY, 1 SUFFOLK COURT, SILVER LANE, YEADON, LEEDS, LS19 7JN
ODS code B86051
4.8 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Woodnook Drive
BCT · Tinshill
- 0.1 miles
Silk Mill Avenue
BCT · Tinshill
- 0.1 miles
Woodnook Drive
BCT · Tinshill
- 0.1 miles
Silk Mill Avenue
BCT · Tinshill
- 0.2 miles
Tinshill Avenue
BCT · Tinshill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leeds 019B, 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
19,351 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
2,475 published events cover 12 months, averaging 206.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,161 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.