Property market
The five-year median is £2,650,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF17 8FR. 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.
WF17 8FR
Batley West · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Batley
- Ward
- Batley West
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF17 8FR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2015
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 8
- Latitude
- 53.715171
- Longitude
- -1.638637
- British National Grid easting
- 423,947
- British National Grid northing
- 424,365
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Batley West · E05016504
- Parish or community
- E43000188
- Westminster constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley · E14001196
- Output area
- E00178677
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 010C · E01011032
- 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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Jubilee Mill, Upper Blakeridge Lane, Batley, WF17 8FR | 11 April 2022 | £2,650,000 |
| The Jubilee Mill, Upper Blakeridge Lane, Batley, WF17 8FR | 28 April 2017 | £6,667,937 |
| The Jubilee Mill, Upper Blakeridge Lane, Batley, WF17 8FR | 28 April 2017 | £7,434,512 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 88
- Primary
- 59
- Secondary
- 11
- 154 m
Batley Parish CofE Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 305 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 376 m
Cambridge Street School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,709
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,552
- Anti social behaviour 342
- Shoplifting 334
- Public order 327
- Criminal damage and arson 282
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 94
- Postcode households
- 69
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- WF17 8 residents
- 7,735
34 female, 60 male
Age bands in WF17 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.6%
1,609 residents
927 residents
2,176 residents
1,703 residents
1,007 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF17 8 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
32
within 5 km
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
140 m
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
143 m
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
215 m
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
272 m
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
908 m
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
991 m
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
1.9 km
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
1.9 km
LOCALA KIRKLEES SAS
LOCALA SAS, PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y00081
1.9 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
2.2 km
BLACKBURN RD.MEDICAL CTR.
BLACKBURN ROAD, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9PL
ODS code B85025
2.5 km
COOK LANE SURGERY
COOK LANE, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 9JG
ODS code B85619
2.6 km
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
2.6 km
KIRKGATE SURGERY
3 KIRKGATE, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9HE
ODS code B85640
2.7 km
BROOKROYD HOUSE
BROOKROYD SURGERY, HECKMONDWIKE HEALTH CENTRE, 16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85014
2.8 km
UNDERCLIFFE SURGERY
16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85012
2.8 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
2.8 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
2.8 km
LIVERSEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
VALLEY ROAD, LIVERSEDGE, WF15 6DF
ODS code B85612
3.4 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 32 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
- 0.0 miles
Mayman Close
BCT · Batley
- 0.0 miles
Blakeridge Lane
BCT · Batley
- 0.0 miles
Blakeridge Lane Stocks Ln
BCT · Batley
- 0.0 miles
Mayman Close
BCT · Batley
- 0.1 miles
Batley Cemetery
BCT · Batley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 010C, 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
3,954 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 74
- 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
88 open schools are in scope, including 59 primary and 11 secondary schools. Batley Parish CofE Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 154 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,709 published events cover 12 months, averaging 309.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,552 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.