Schools
56 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 9 secondary schools. Hightown Primary School is the nearest published school at 320 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF15 8HZ
Liversedge & Gomersal · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley
- Postcode district
- WF15
- Postcode sector
- WF15 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF15 8HZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2006
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF15
- Postcode sector
- WF15 8
- Latitude
- 53.713811
- Longitude
- -1.725572
- British National Grid easting
- 418,210
- British National Grid northing
- 424,188
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Liversedge & Gomersal · E05016521
- Parish or community
- E43000188
- Westminster constituency
- Spen Valley · E14001506
- Output area
- E00056697
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 008C · E01011249
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 008 · E02002278
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 WF15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 56
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 9
- 320 m
Hightown Primary School
Academy converter
- 510 m
High Bank Junior Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Heaton Avenue, A Share Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,535
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 650
- Anti social behaviour 159
- Criminal damage and arson 132
- Public order 119
- Shoplifting 114
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF15 8 residents
- 5,196
Age bands in WF15 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
1,068 residents
576 residents
1,288 residents
1,332 residents
1,030 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
PARKVIEW SURGERY
GREENSIDE, CLECKHEATON, BD19 5AP
ODS code B85001
1.2 km
THE GREENWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GREEN WAY PRACTICE, CLECKHEATON HEALTH CENTRE, GREENSIDE, CLECKHEATON, BD19 5AP
ODS code B85030
1.2 km
CLECKHEATON GROUP PRACTICE
CROSS CHURCH STREET, CLECKHEATON, BD19 3RQ
ODS code B85021
1.5 km
LIVERSEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
VALLEY ROAD, LIVERSEDGE, WF15 6DF
ODS code B85612
2.3 km
BROOKROYD HOUSE
BROOKROYD SURGERY, HECKMONDWIKE HEALTH CENTRE, 16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85014
3.2 km
UNDERCLIFFE SURGERY
16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85012
3.2 km
COOK LANE SURGERY
COOK LANE, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 9JG
ODS code B85619
3.2 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
24 CHURCH LANE, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 1AT
ODS code B84011
3.9 km
RYDINGS HALL SURGERY
RYDINGS HALL, CHURCH LANE, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 1AT
ODS code B84003
3.9 km
KIRKGATE SURGERY
3 KIRKGATE, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9HE
ODS code B85640
4.3 km
BLACKBURN RD.MEDICAL CTR.
BLACKBURN ROAD, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9PL
ODS code B85025
4.5 km
MIRFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
DOCTOR LANE, MIRFIELD, WF14 8DU
ODS code B85019
4.6 km
LONGROYDE SURGERY
38 CASTLE AVENUE, RASTRICK, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 3HT
ODS code B84623
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hightown Club
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Hightown Club
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
First Avenue Halifax Rd
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
First Avenue Halifax Rd
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Third Ave Eleventh Avenue
BCT · Hightown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 008C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,503 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,535 published events cover 12 months, averaging 127.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 650 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.