Property market
The five-year median is £400,000 from 3 recorded sales in LS26 8BX. 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 8BX
Rothwell · Leeds · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LS26 8BX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LS
- Postcode district
- LS26
- Postcode sector
- LS26 8
- Latitude
- 53.741406
- Longitude
- -1.450773
- British National Grid easting
- 436,323
- British National Grid northing
- 427,363
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
- E00058639
- Lower layer super output area
- Leeds 097B · E01011635
- Middle layer super output area
- Leeds 097 · E02002426
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
29 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Shelley Close, Oulton, Leeds, LS26 8BX | 1 October 2024 | £380,000 |
| 1, Shelley Close, Oulton, Leeds, LS26 8BX | 14 August 2023 | £445,000 |
| 7, Shelley Close, Oulton, Leeds, LS26 8BX | 17 June 2022 | £400,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 3
- 750 m
Oulton Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Rothwell St Mary's RC Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.4 km
Oulton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 436
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 186
- Public order 46
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Shoplifting 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 39
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- LS26 8 residents
- 12,727
22 female, 17 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 0.3% 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
6
within 5 km
OULTON MEDICAL CENTRE
QUARRY HILL, OULTON, LEEDS, LS26 8SZ
ODS code B86006
1.2 km
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
3.2 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
3.5 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
3.8 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
4.3 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
5.0 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
Oulton Drive Oulton
BCT · Oulton
- 0.1 miles
Oulton Drive
BCT · Oulton
- 0.1 miles
Oulton Drive
BCT · Oulton
- 0.2 miles
Rothwell Leisure Centre
BCT · Oulton
- 0.3 miles
Rothwell Leis Ctr
BCT · Oulton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leeds 097B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,247 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
27 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 3 secondary schools. Oulton Academy is the nearest published school at 750 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
436 published events cover 12 months, averaging 36.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 186 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.