Schools
88 open schools are in scope, including 60 primary and 10 secondary schools. Engage Academy is the nearest published school at 210 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF17 5AF
Batley East · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Batley East
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF17 5AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 5
- Latitude
- 53.713347
- Longitude
- -1.630062
- British National Grid easting
- 424,514
- British National Grid northing
- 424,165
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
- E00055582
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 010B · E01011029
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 010 · E02002280
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 88
- Primary
- 60
- Secondary
- 10
- 210 m
Engage Academy
Academy alternative provision converter
- 286 m
Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 319 m
Cambridge Street School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,337
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,362
- Shoplifting 333
- Anti social behaviour 312
- Public order 283
- Criminal damage and arson 245
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF17 5 residents
- 3,621
Age bands in WF17 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.4%
726 residents
558 residents
1,106 residents
829 residents
499 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
29
within 5 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
338 m
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
391 m
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
416 m
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
462 m
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
479 m
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
848 m
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
1.3 km
LOCALA KIRKLEES SAS
LOCALA SAS, PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y00081
1.3 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
2.0 km
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
2.0 km
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
2.2 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
2.6 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
2.6 km
BLACKBURN RD.MEDICAL CTR.
BLACKBURN ROAD, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9PL
ODS code B85025
3.0 km
COOK LANE SURGERY
COOK LANE, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 9JG
ODS code B85619
3.1 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
KIRKGATE SURGERY
3 KIRKGATE, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9HE
ODS code B85640
3.3 km
SAVILE TOWN MEDICAL CTR.
SCARBOROUGH STREET, SAVILE TOWN, DEWSBURY, DEWSBURY, WF12 9AY
ODS code B85645
3.5 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
3.5 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
Batley Tesco
BCT · Batley
- 0.1 miles
Batley Commercial St D
BCT · Batley
- 0.1 miles
Batley Commercial St C
BCT · Batley
- 0.2 miles
Fox's Biscuits
BCT · Batley
- 0.2 miles
Station Road
BCT · Batley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 010B, 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
579 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
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
3,337 published events cover 12 months, averaging 278.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,362 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.