Schools
86 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 11 secondary schools. Reach Academy is the nearest published school at 47 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF17 0RW
Batley East · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Batley
- Ward
- Batley East
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF17 0RW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 0
- Latitude
- 53.718997
- Longitude
- -1.631573
- British National Grid easting
- 424,411
- British National Grid northing
- 424,793
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Batley East · E05016503
- Parish or community
- E43000188
- Westminster constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley · E14001196
- Output area
- E00055520
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 007C · E01011023
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 007 · E02002277
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 WF17
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, York Court, Batley, WF17 0RW | 12 August 2016 | £125,000 |
| 2, York Court, Batley, WF17 0RW | 5 November 2015 | £677,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 86
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 11
- 47 m
Reach Academy
Academy alternative provision converter
- 273 m
Upper Batley High School
Academy sponsor led
- 365 m
Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,889
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,152
- Shoplifting 332
- Anti social behaviour 278
- Public order 253
- Criminal damage and arson 215
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- WF17 0 residents
- 7,792
6 female, 8 male
Age bands in WF17 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
1,400 residents
867 residents
1,920 residents
2,031 residents
1,508 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF17 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
- 0%
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
29
within 5 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
508 m
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
520 m
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
578 m
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
656 m
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
922 m
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
1.4 km
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
1.8 km
LOCALA KIRKLEES SAS
LOCALA SAS, PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y00081
1.8 km
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
2.5 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
2.6 km
BLACKBURN RD.MEDICAL CTR.
BLACKBURN ROAD, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9PL
ODS code B85025
2.6 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
2.9 km
COOK LANE SURGERY
COOK LANE, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 9JG
ODS code B85619
3.1 km
THE DEKEYSER GROUP PRACTICE
LITTLE FOUNTAIN STREET, MORLEY, LEEDS, LS27 9EN
ODS code B86067
3.2 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
3.3 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
3.3 km
BROOKROYD HOUSE
BROOKROYD SURGERY, HECKMONDWIKE HEALTH CENTRE, 16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85014
3.3 km
UNDERCLIFFE SURGERY
16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85012
3.3 km
WINDSOR HOUSE GROUP PRACTICE
2 CORPORATION STREET, MORLEY, LEEDS, LS27 9NB
ODS code B86057
3.3 km
Showing 20 of 29 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
Chinewood Avenue
BCT · Upper Batley
- 0.1 miles
Upper Batley School
BCT · Upper Batley
- 0.1 miles
Chinewood Avenue
BCT · Upper Batley
- 0.1 miles
Upper Batley School
BCT · Upper Batley
- 0.1 miles
County Close
BCT · Upper Batley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 007C, 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
8,928 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
2,889 published events cover 12 months, averaging 240.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,152 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.