Schools
98 open schools are in scope, including 65 primary and 10 secondary schools. Richmond House School is the nearest published school at 634 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LS16 8HQ
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LS16 8HQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- LS
- Postcode district
- LS16
- Postcode sector
- LS16 8
- Latitude
- 53.836647
- Longitude
- -1.583603
- British National Grid easting
- 427,500
- British National Grid northing
- 437,900
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
- E00169597
- Lower layer super output area
- Leeds 109G · E01032876
- 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
- 98
- Primary
- 65
- Secondary
- 10
- 634 m
Richmond House School
Other independent school
- 755 m
Weetwood Primary School
Community school
- 762 m
Lawnswood School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,675
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 619
- Vehicle crime 158
- Shoplifting 146
- Public order 132
- Burglary 118
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LS16 8 residents
- 4,943
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
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
27
within 5 km straight-line
MEANWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
548 MEANWOOD ROAD, LEEDS, LS6 4JN
ODS code B86059
1.6 km
DR S HUTCHINSON & PARTNERS, IW&H M PRAC
IVESON APPROACH, LEEDS, LS16 6FR
ODS code B86044
1.7 km
BURTON CROFT SURGERY
1 SHIRE OAK STREET, HEADINGLEY, LEEDS, LS6 2AF
ODS code B86030
1.8 km
KIRKSTALL LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
216 KIRKSTALL LANE, LEEDS, LS6 3DS
ODS code B86109
2.2 km
LAUREL BANK SURGERY
216 KIRKSTALL LANE, LEEDS, LS6 3DS
ODS code B86086
2.2 km
VESPER ROAD
43 VESPER ROAD, LEEDS, LS5 3QT
ODS code B86041
2.3 km
ABBEY GRANGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE, NORMAN STREET, LEEDS, LS5 3JN
ODS code B86068
2.4 km
ALWOODLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
SAXON MOUNT, MOORTOWN, LEEDS, LS17 5DT
ODS code B86008
2.4 km
DIAMOND MEDICAL GROUP
RUTLAND LODGE, SCOTT HALL ROAD, LEEDS, LS7 3RA
ODS code B86019
2.7 km
HIGHFIELD SURGERY
HOLTDALE APPROACH, LEEDS, LS16 7RX
ODS code B86004
2.7 km
BURLEY PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
273 BURLEY ROAD, LEEDS, LS4 2EL
ODS code B86069
3.2 km
THE NORTH LEEDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
355 HARROGATE ROAD, LEEDS, LS17 6PZ
ODS code B86013
3.3 km
ALLERTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6 MONTREAL AVENUE, LEEDS, LS7 4LF
ODS code B86039
3.4 km
CRAVEN ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
60 CRAVEN ROAD, LEEDS, LS6 2RX
ODS code B86017
3.5 km
HYDE PARK SURGERY
WOODSLEY ROAD, LEEDS, LS6 1SG
ODS code B86025
3.5 km
WOODHOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
CAMBRIDGE ROAD, LEEDS, LS6 2SF
ODS code B86049
3.6 km
NEWTON SURGERY
305 CHAPELTOWN ROAD, LEEDS, LS7 3JT
ODS code B86666
3.7 km
ST MARTINS PRACTICE
ST. MARTINS SURGERY, 210 CHAPELTOWN ROAD, LEEDS, LS7 4HZ
ODS code B86100
3.8 km
MANOR PARK SURGERY
BELLMOUNT CLOSE, BRAMLEY, LEEDS, LS13 2UP
ODS code B86015
3.9 km
LEEDS STUDENT MEDICAL PRACTICE
4 BLENHEIM COURT, LEEDS, LS2 9AE
ODS code B86110
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 27 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Quarry Dene Park
BCT · Weetwood
- 0.0 miles
Quarry Dene Park
BCT · Weetwood
- 0.2 miles
Foxhill Avenue
BCT · Weetwood
- 0.2 miles
Foxhill Avenue
BCT · Weetwood
- 0.2 miles
Weetwood Court
BCT · Weetwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leeds 109G, 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
33,426 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
1,675 published events cover 12 months, averaging 139.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 619 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.