Schools
55 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 9 secondary schools. Victoria Junior School is the nearest published school at 559 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LS26 0RW
Rothwell · Leeds · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rothwell
- Local authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell
- Postcode district
- LS26
- Postcode sector
- LS26 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LS26 0RW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- LS
- Postcode district
- LS26
- Postcode sector
- LS26 0
- Latitude
- 53.756320
- Longitude
- -1.496429
- British National Grid easting
- 433,300
- British National Grid northing
- 429,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Leeds · E08000035
- Electoral ward
- Rothwell · E05011410
- Parish or community
- E43000294
- Westminster constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell · E14001560
- Output area
- E00058614
- Lower layer super output area
- Leeds 100B · E01011630
- Middle layer super output area
- Leeds 100 · E02002429
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 LS26
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 9
- 559 m
Victoria Junior School
Community school
- 753 m
Cockburn Haigh Road Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Holy Trinity Church of England Academy, Rothwell
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,234
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 520
- Anti social behaviour 151
- Public order 97
- Criminal damage and arson 92
- Vehicle crime 90
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LS26 0 residents
- 13,913
Age bands in LS26 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
2,502 residents
1,298 residents
3,644 residents
3,819 residents
2,797 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
LINGWELL CROFT SURGERY
16 SHELLDRAKE DRIVE, MIDDLETON, LEEDS, LS10 3NB
ODS code B86042
2.6 km
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
3.0 km
ARTHINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
5 MOOR ROAD, HUNSLET, LEEDS, LS10 2JJ
ODS code B86096
3.0 km
OULTON MEDICAL CENTRE
QUARRY HILL, OULTON, LEEDS, LS26 8SZ
ODS code B86006
3.1 km
DR S HUSSAIN
CHURCH STREET SURGERY, 57 CHURCH STREET, HUNSLET, LEEDS, LS10 2PE
ODS code B86642
3.2 km
SOUTH BANK SURGERY
HUNSLET HEALTH CENTRE, 24 CHURCH STREET, HUNSLET, LEEDS, LS10 2PT
ODS code B86035
3.3 km
DR N DUMPHY & PARTNERS
12 OAKLEY TERRACE, BEESTON, LEEDS, LS11 5HT
ODS code B86005
3.8 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
5-7 EAST PARK ROAD, LEEDS, LS9 9JD
ODS code B86043
4.3 km
CITY VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEESTON HILL COMMUNITY HEALTH CTR, 123 CEMETERY ROAD, BEESTON, LEEDS, LS11 8LH
ODS code B86002
4.6 km
LEEDS CITY MEDICAL PRACTICE
123 CEMETERY ROAD, BEESTON, LEEDS, LS11 8LH
ODS code B86012
4.6 km
SHAFTESBURY MEDICAL CTR.
78 OSMONDTHORPE LANE, LEEDS, LS9 9EF
ODS code B86016
4.9 km
THE GARDEN SURGERY
78A OSMONDTHORPE LANE, LEEDS, LS9 9EF
ODS code B86054
4.9 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Low Shops Lane
BCT · Rothwell
- 0.1 miles
Low Shops Lane
BCT · Rothwell
- 0.1 miles
Haigh Avenue
BCT · Rothwell
- 0.1 miles
Haigh Avenue
BCT · Rothwell
- 0.2 miles
St George's Park
BCT · Rothwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leeds 100B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,998 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
1,234 published events cover 12 months, averaging 102.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 520 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.