Schools
87 open schools are in scope, including 59 primary and 13 secondary schools. Fairfield School is the nearest published school at 269 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF17 8XG
Batley West · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Batley West
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF17 8XG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 8
- Latitude
- 53.719145
- Longitude
- -1.660530
- British National Grid easting
- 422,500
- British National Grid northing
- 424,800
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
- Spen Valley · E14001506
- Output area
- E00178722
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 006D · E01011031
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 006 · E02002276
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
- 87
- Primary
- 59
- Secondary
- 13
- 269 m
Fairfield School
Foundation special school
- 449 m
Co-op Academy Smithies Moor
Academy sponsor led
- 716 m
Carlinghow Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,173
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,492
- Public order 294
- Anti social behaviour 274
- Criminal damage and arson 243
- Vehicle crime 182
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF17 8 residents
- 7,735
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
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
31
within 5 km straight-line
BLACKBURN RD.MEDICAL CTR.
BLACKBURN ROAD, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9PL
ODS code B85025
1.4 km
COOK LANE SURGERY
COOK LANE, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 9JG
ODS code B85619
1.4 km
KIRKGATE SURGERY
3 KIRKGATE, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9HE
ODS code B85640
1.5 km
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
1.6 km
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
1.7 km
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
1.7 km
BROOKROYD HOUSE
BROOKROYD SURGERY, HECKMONDWIKE HEALTH CENTRE, 16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85014
1.8 km
UNDERCLIFFE SURGERY
16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85012
1.8 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
1.8 km
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
2.0 km
LIVERSEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
VALLEY ROAD, LIVERSEDGE, WF15 6DF
ODS code B85612
2.1 km
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
2.2 km
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
2.5 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
3.1 km
CLECKHEATON GROUP PRACTICE
CROSS CHURCH STREET, CLECKHEATON, BD19 3RQ
ODS code B85021
3.4 km
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
3.5 km
LOCALA KIRKLEES SAS
LOCALA SAS, PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y00081
3.5 km
PARKVIEW SURGERY
GREENSIDE, CLECKHEATON, BD19 5AP
ODS code B85001
3.5 km
THE GREENWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GREEN WAY PRACTICE, CLECKHEATON HEALTH CENTRE, GREENSIDE, CLECKHEATON, BD19 5AP
ODS code B85030
3.5 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 31 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Oakwell Avenue
BCT · Carlinghow
- 0.1 miles
Oakwell Avenue
BCT · Carlinghow
- 0.1 miles
White Lee Road Leeside Rd
BCT · White Lee
- 0.2 miles
White Lee Side
BCT · White Lee
- 0.2 miles
White Lee Side
BCT · White Lee
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 006D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,342 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
3,173 published events cover 12 months, averaging 264.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,492 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.