Property market
The five-year median is £238,000 from 3 recorded sales in WF16 0BL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Kirklees is £205,773 in June 2026, up 5.4% year on year.
WF16 0BL
Heckmondwike · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Heckmondwike
- Ward
- Heckmondwike
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley
- Postcode district
- WF16
- Postcode sector
- WF16 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF16 0BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF16
- Postcode sector
- WF16 0
- Latitude
- 53.706966
- Longitude
- -1.663733
- British National Grid easting
- 422,295
- British National Grid northing
- 423,444
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Heckmondwike · E05016516
- Parish or community
- E43000188
- Westminster constituency
- Spen Valley · E14001506
- Output area
- E00056248
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 011A · E01011157
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 011 · E02002281
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 WF16
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Forster Drive, Heckmondwike, WF16 0BL | 19 January 2026 | £250,000 |
| 7, Forster Drive, Heckmondwike, WF16 0BL | 25 August 2023 | £150,000 |
| 5, Forster Drive, Heckmondwike, WF16 0BL | 27 February 2023 | £238,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 85
- Primary
- 57
- Secondary
- 11
- 169 m
Heckmondwike Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 381 m
Heckmondwike Grammar School
Academy converter
- 394 m
Brian Jackson College
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,828
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,746
- Anti social behaviour 371
- Criminal damage and arson 329
- Public order 327
- Other theft 251
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- WF16 0 residents
- 4,541
7 female, 8 male
Age bands in WF16 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.2%
1,092 residents
603 residents
1,424 residents
1,163 residents
651 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF16 0 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
28
within 5 km
COOK LANE SURGERY
COOK LANE, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 9JG
ODS code B85619
946 m
BROOKROYD HOUSE
BROOKROYD SURGERY, HECKMONDWIKE HEALTH CENTRE, 16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85014
955 m
UNDERCLIFFE SURGERY
16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85012
955 m
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
1.1 km
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
1.7 km
LIVERSEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
VALLEY ROAD, LIVERSEDGE, WF15 6DF
ODS code B85612
1.9 km
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
2.0 km
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
2.0 km
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
2.0 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
2.1 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
2.3 km
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
2.6 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
2.7 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
2.7 km
BLACKBURN RD.MEDICAL CTR.
BLACKBURN ROAD, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9PL
ODS code B85025
2.7 km
KIRKGATE SURGERY
3 KIRKGATE, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9HE
ODS code B85640
2.8 km
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
3.1 km
DR MAHMOOD & PARTNERS
NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85650
3.2 km
NORTH ROAD SUITE,RAVENSTHORPE HEALTH CTR
RAVENSTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85009
3.2 km
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 28 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
Chapel Lane
BCT · Heckmondwike
- 0.2 miles
Lobley Street
BCT · Heckmondwike
- 0.2 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · Heckmondwike
- 0.2 miles
Lobley Street
BCT · Heckmondwike
- 0.2 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · Heckmondwike
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 011A, 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
6,786 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
Schools
85 open schools are in scope, including 57 primary and 11 secondary schools. Heckmondwike Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 169 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,828 published events cover 12 months, averaging 319 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,746 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.