Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 6 secondary schools. Overthorpe CofE Academy is the nearest published school at 430 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF12 0PP
Dewsbury South · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dewsbury South
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley
- Postcode district
- WF12
- Postcode sector
- WF12 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF12 0PP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF12
- Postcode sector
- WF12 0
- Latitude
- 53.661560
- Longitude
- -1.639807
- British National Grid easting
- 423,900
- British National Grid northing
- 418,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Dewsbury South · E05016513
- Parish or community
- E43000188
- Westminster constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley · E14001196
- Output area
- E00056710
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 028A · E01011252
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 028 · E02002298
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 WF12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 6
- 430 m
Overthorpe CofE Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Thornhill Junior and Infant School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,156
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 589
- Anti social behaviour 97
- Public order 94
- Criminal damage and arson 89
- Other theft 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF12 0 residents
- 9,966
Age bands in WF12 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
1,828 residents
1,192 residents
2,260 residents
2,625 residents
1,736 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
14
within 5 km straight-line
THE PADDOCK SURGERY
CHAPEL LANE, THORNHILL, DEWSBURY, WF12 0DH
ODS code B85038
1.0 km
THORNHILL LEES MEDICAL CENTRE
140 SLAITHWAITE ROAD, THORNHILL LEES, DEWSBURY, WF12 9DW
ODS code B85606
1.5 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
2.3 km
DR MAHMOOD & PARTNERS
NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85650
2.3 km
NORTH ROAD SUITE,RAVENSTHORPE HEALTH CTR
RAVENSTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85009
2.3 km
SAVILE TOWN MEDICAL CTR.
SCARBOROUGH STREET, SAVILE TOWN, DEWSBURY, DEWSBURY, WF12 9AY
ODS code B85645
2.5 km
MIDDLESTOWN
MIDDLESTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW ROAD, MIDDLESTOWN, WAKEFIELD, WF4 4PA
ODS code B87001
2.9 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
3.2 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
3.2 km
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
3.8 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
3.8 km
MIRFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
DOCTOR LANE, MIRFIELD, WF14 8DU
ODS code B85019
4.1 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
4.4 km
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Edge Top WMC
BCT · Thornhill
- 0.0 miles
Edge Top WMC
BCT · Thornhill
- 0.1 miles
Thornhill Chapel
BCT · Thornhill
- 0.1 miles
Thornhill Chapel
BCT · Thornhill
- 0.1 miles
Foxroyd Lane
BCT · Thornhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 028A, 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
24,031 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,156 published events cover 12 months, averaging 96.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 589 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.