Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Gateways School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LS16 8AX
Alwoodley · Leeds · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Alwoodley
- Local authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North East
- Postcode district
- LS16
- Postcode sector
- LS16 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LS16 8AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LS
- Postcode district
- LS16
- Postcode sector
- LS16 8
- Latitude
- 53.887136
- Longitude
- -1.559445
- British National Grid easting
- 429,055
- British National Grid northing
- 443,527
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Leeds · E08000035
- Electoral ward
- Alwoodley · E05012842
- Parish or community
- E04012760
- Westminster constituency
- Leeds North East · E14001321
- Output area
- E00058266
- Lower layer super output area
- Leeds 012A · E01011554
- Middle layer super output area
- Leeds 012 · E02002341
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
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 3.5 km
Gateways School
Other independent school
- 3.5 km
Harewood Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.7 km
The Grammar School At Leeds
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 2
- Public order 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Robbery 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- LS16 8 residents
- 4,943
1 female, 0 male
Age bands in LS16 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
841 residents
704 residents
1,102 residents
1,189 residents
1,042 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LS16 8 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
- 100%
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
ALWOODLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
SAXON MOUNT, MOORTOWN, LEEDS, LS17 5DT
ODS code B86008
4.5 km
HIGHFIELD SURGERY
HOLTDALE APPROACH, LEEDS, LS16 7RX
ODS code B86004
4.7 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
- 0.9 miles
Weardley Lane
BCT · Weardley
- 0.9 miles
Weardley Lane
BCT · Weardley
- 1.0 miles
Ingfield Farm
BCT · Arthington
- 1.0 miles
Ingfield Farm
BCT · Arthington
- 1.2 miles
Weardley Lane End
BCT · Weardley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leeds 012A, 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
30,412 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.