Schools
81 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 10 secondary schools. Rida Girls High School is the nearest published school at 328 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF12 9LJ
Dewsbury South · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dewsbury
- Ward
- Dewsbury South
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley
- Postcode district
- WF12
- Postcode sector
- WF12 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF12 9LJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2010
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF12
- Postcode sector
- WF12 9
- Latitude
- 53.682641
- Longitude
- -1.635055
- British National Grid easting
- 424,202
- British National Grid northing
- 420,747
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
- E00056720
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 024A · E01011257
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 024 · E02002294
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Pavilion Close, Dewsbury, WF12 9LJ | 12 March 2013 | £220,000 |
| 1, Pavilion Close, Dewsbury, WF12 9LJ | 24 August 2012 | £300,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 81
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 10
- 328 m
Rida Girls High School
Other independent school
- 434 m
Savile Town Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant and Nursery School
Voluntary controlled school
- 499 m
Pentland Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,606
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,371
- Public order 410
- Shoplifting 364
- Drugs 242
- Anti social behaviour 237
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 5.0
- WF12 9 residents
- 9,923
8 female, 12 male
Age bands in WF12 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.4%
2,332 residents
1,819 residents
2,838 residents
2,107 residents
1,052 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF12 9 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
- 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
26
within 5 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
173 m
SAVILE TOWN MEDICAL CTR.
SCARBOROUGH STREET, SAVILE TOWN, DEWSBURY, DEWSBURY, WF12 9AY
ODS code B85645
613 m
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
792 m
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
792 m
THORNHILL LEES MEDICAL CENTRE
140 SLAITHWAITE ROAD, THORNHILL LEES, DEWSBURY, WF12 9DW
ODS code B85606
1.1 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
1.5 km
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
1.5 km
DR MAHMOOD & PARTNERS
NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85650
1.8 km
NORTH ROAD SUITE,RAVENSTHORPE HEALTH CTR
RAVENSTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85009
1.8 km
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
2.2 km
THE PADDOCK SURGERY
CHAPEL LANE, THORNHILL, DEWSBURY, WF12 0DH
ODS code B85038
2.2 km
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
2.7 km
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
3.2 km
LOCALA KIRKLEES SAS
LOCALA SAS, PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y00081
3.2 km
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
3.3 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
3.4 km
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
3.5 km
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
3.6 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
3.6 km
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 26 matching practices.
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
Caledonian Road
BCT · Savile Town
- 0.1 miles
Caledonian Road
BCT · Savile Town
- 0.2 miles
Savile Town Ground
BCT · Savile Town
- 0.2 miles
Savile Town Ground
BCT · Savile Town
- 0.2 miles
Pentland Road
BCT · Savile Town
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 024A, 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
5,799 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
3,606 published events cover 12 months, averaging 300.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,371 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.