Schools
82 open schools are in scope, including 55 primary and 10 secondary schools. Manor Croft Academy is the nearest published school at 333 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF12 7BT
Dewsbury East · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dewsbury East
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley
- Postcode district
- WF12
- Postcode sector
- WF12 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF12 7BT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF12
- Postcode sector
- WF12 7
- Latitude
- 53.694963
- Longitude
- -1.620318
- British National Grid easting
- 425,168
- British National Grid northing
- 422,123
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Dewsbury East · E05016512
- Parish or community
- E43000188
- Westminster constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley · E14001196
- Output area
- E00056069
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 018C · E01011123
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 018 · E02002288
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
- 82
- Primary
- 55
- Secondary
- 10
- 333 m
Manor Croft Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 394 m
Eastborough Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 706 m
Bywell Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,996
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,589
- Public order 401
- Shoplifting 400
- Anti social behaviour 267
- Criminal damage and arson 251
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF12 7 residents
- 9,286
Age bands in WF12 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,639 residents
964 residents
2,352 residents
2,496 residents
1,893 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
23
within 5 km straight-line
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
170 m
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
891 m
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
1.1 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
1.1 km
SAVILE TOWN MEDICAL CTR.
SCARBOROUGH STREET, SAVILE TOWN, DEWSBURY, DEWSBURY, WF12 9AY
ODS code B85645
1.5 km
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
1.6 km
LOCALA KIRKLEES SAS
LOCALA SAS, PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y00081
1.6 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
1.7 km
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
1.8 km
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
1.9 km
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
2.1 km
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
2.3 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
2.4 km
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
2.5 km
THORNHILL LEES MEDICAL CENTRE
140 SLAITHWAITE ROAD, THORNHILL LEES, DEWSBURY, WF12 9DW
ODS code B85606
2.5 km
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
2.5 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
2.9 km
DR MAHMOOD & PARTNERS
NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85650
3.3 km
NORTH ROAD SUITE,RAVENSTHORPE HEALTH CTR
RAVENSTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85009
3.3 km
THE PADDOCK SURGERY
CHAPEL LANE, THORNHILL, DEWSBURY, WF12 0DH
ODS code B85038
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sugar Lane
BCT · Dewsbury
- 0.0 miles
Sugar Lane
BCT · Dewsbury
- 0.1 miles
Sugar Ln Leeds Rd
BCT · Dewsbury
- 0.2 miles
Woodville Road
BCT · Dewsbury
- 0.2 miles
Sugar Ln Old Bank Rd
BCT · Dewsbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 018C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,258 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
3,996 published events cover 12 months, averaging 333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,589 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.