Schools
85 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 8 secondary schools. Orchard Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 257 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF12 8DQ
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF12 8DQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF12
- Postcode sector
- WF12 8
- Latitude
- 53.689946
- Longitude
- -1.597649
- British National Grid easting
- 426,668
- British National Grid northing
- 421,573
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
- E00056087
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 018B · E01011122
- 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
- 85
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 8
- 257 m
Orchard Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 685 m
Gawthorpe Community Academy
Academy converter
- 949 m
Earlsheaton Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,238
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,067
- Anti social behaviour 227
- Criminal damage and arson 184
- Public order 162
- Other theft 128
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF12 8 residents
- 6,844
Age bands in WF12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.3%
1,483 residents
733 residents
1,969 residents
1,771 residents
996 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
22
within 5 km straight-line
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
1.3 km
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
1.7 km
SAVILE TOWN MEDICAL CTR.
SCARBOROUGH STREET, SAVILE TOWN, DEWSBURY, DEWSBURY, WF12 9AY
ODS code B85645
2.0 km
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
2.2 km
LOCALA KIRKLEES SAS
LOCALA SAS, PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y00081
2.2 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
2.5 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
2.5 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
2.5 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
2.5 km
THORNHILL LEES MEDICAL CENTRE
140 SLAITHWAITE ROAD, THORNHILL LEES, DEWSBURY, WF12 9DW
ODS code B85606
2.8 km
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
3.0 km
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
3.2 km
THE PADDOCK SURGERY
CHAPEL LANE, THORNHILL, DEWSBURY, WF12 0DH
ODS code B85038
3.4 km
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
3.7 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
3.7 km
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
3.7 km
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
3.8 km
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
3.8 km
MIDDLESTOWN
MIDDLESTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW ROAD, MIDDLESTOWN, WAKEFIELD, WF4 4PA
ODS code B87001
4.4 km
DR MAHMOOD & PARTNERS
NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85650
4.4 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
School Street
BCT · Chickenley
- 0.1 miles
School Street
BCT · Chickenley
- 0.1 miles
Hazel Crescent
BCT · Chickenley
- 0.1 miles
Hazel Crescent
BCT · Chickenley
- 0.1 miles
Maple Road
BCT · Chickenley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 018B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
400 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,238 published events cover 12 months, averaging 186.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,067 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.