Property market
The five-year median is £160,000 from 3 recorded sales in LS26 8BG. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Leeds is £249,394 in June 2026, up 5.9% year on year.
LS26 8BG
Garforth & Swillington · Leeds · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leeds
- Local authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds East
- Postcode district
- LS26
- Postcode sector
- LS26 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LS26 8BG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LS
- Postcode district
- LS26
- Postcode sector
- LS26 8
- Latitude
- 53.762642
- Longitude
- -1.388849
- British National Grid easting
- 440,387
- British National Grid northing
- 429,759
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Leeds · E08000035
- Electoral ward
- Garforth & Swillington · E05013830
- Parish or community
- E04013103
- Westminster constituency
- Leeds East · E14001320
- Output area
- E00057471
- Lower layer super output area
- Leeds 087C · E01011392
- Middle layer super output area
- Leeds 087 · E02002416
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
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Well Close, Great Preston, Leeds, LS26 8BG | 31 October 2025 | £161,000 |
| 2, Well Close, Great Preston, Leeds, LS26 8BG | 20 January 2025 | £150,000 |
| 8, Well Close, Great Preston, Leeds, LS26 8BG | 13 February 2023 | £160,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 2
- 595 m
Great Preston VC CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 807 m
Brigshaw High School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Kippax Greenfield Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 806
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 342
- Anti social behaviour 83
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Burglary 58
- Public order 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- LS26 8 residents
- 12,727
17 female, 13 male
Age bands in LS26 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.1%
2,167 residents
1,205 residents
3,249 residents
3,489 residents
2,872 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LS26 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
- 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
10
within 5 km
KIPPAX HALL SURGERY
54 HIGH STREET, KIPPAX, LEEDS, LS25 7AB
ODS code B86092
1.4 km
GIBSON LANE PRACTICE
GIBSON LANE, KIPPAX, LEEDS, LS25 7JN
ODS code B86036
1.7 km
NOVA SCOTIA MEDICAL CNTR
22A LEEDS ROAD, ALLERTON BYWATER, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2DP
ODS code B86089
2.0 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
2.9 km
GARFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
CHURCH LANE, GARFORTH, LEEDS, LS25 1HB
ODS code B86048
3.3 km
MOORFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
11 WAKEFIELD ROAD, GARFORTH, LEEDS, LS25 1AN
ODS code B86658
3.7 km
OULTON MEDICAL CENTRE
QUARRY HILL, OULTON, LEEDS, LS26 8SZ
ODS code B86006
4.2 km
DR T P FOX & PARTNERS
COLTON MILL MEDICAL CENTRE, STILE HILL WAY, COLTON, LEEDS, LS15 9JH
ODS code B86075
4.3 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
4.4 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Gt Preston Sports Club
BCT · Great Preston
- 0.1 miles
Gt Preston Sprt Clb
BCT · Great Preston
- 0.1 miles
Gt Preston Corner
BCT · Great Preston
- 0.2 miles
Gt Preston Corner
BCT · Great Preston
- 0.2 miles
Great Preston Corner
BCT · Great Preston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leeds 087C, 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
19,035 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 2 secondary schools. Great Preston VC CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 595 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
806 published events cover 12 months, averaging 67.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 342 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.