Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 3 secondary schools. Oulton Academy is the nearest published school at 320 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LS26 8EU
Rothwell · Leeds · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LS26 8EU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LS
- Postcode district
- LS26
- Postcode sector
- LS26 8
- Latitude
- 53.734742
- Longitude
- -1.457788
- British National Grid easting
- 435,866
- British National Grid northing
- 426,618
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
- E00187115
- Lower layer super output area
- Leeds 100D · E01011636
- 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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Iveridge Cottage, Wakefield Road, Oulton, Leeds, LS26 8EU | 15 November 2005 | £100,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 3
- 320 m
Oulton Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.5 km
Rothwell St Mary's RC Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.7 km
Kingsland Primary School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 184
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 87
- Public order 21
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Other theft 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LS26 8 residents
- 12,727
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
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
8
within 5 km
OULTON MEDICAL CENTRE
QUARRY HILL, OULTON, LEEDS, LS26 8SZ
ODS code B86006
2.1 km
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
2.5 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
2.6 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
3.8 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
4.2 km
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
4.5 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
4.6 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Royds Academy
BCT · Oulton
- 0.1 miles
Royds Academy
BCT · Oulton
- 0.2 miles
Pennington Lane Royds School
BCT · Oulton
- 0.2 miles
Royds School
BCT · Oulton
- 0.5 miles
Oulton Drive Oulton
BCT · Oulton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leeds 100D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,288 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
184 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 87 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.