Property market
The five-year median is £199,950 from 7 recorded sales in WF17 9AN. 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 9AN
Batley West · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Batley
- Ward
- Batley West
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF17 9AN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 9
- Latitude
- 53.723160
- Longitude
- -1.662544
- British National Grid easting
- 422,365
- British National Grid northing
- 425,246
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
- E00055568
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 006A · E01011027
- 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
Property
47 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 86, Smithies Moor Lane, Batley, WF17 9AN | 22 May 2026 | £200,000 |
| 44a, Smithies Moor Lane, Batley, WF17 9AN | 16 September 2025 | £395,000 |
| 90, Smithies Moor Lane, Batley, WF17 9AN | 13 June 2025 | £173,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 85
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 13
- 316 m
Fairfield School
Foundation special school
- 398 m
Co-op Academy Smithies Moor
Academy sponsor led
- 885 m
Carlinghow Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,334
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,129
- Anti social behaviour 204
- Criminal damage and arson 190
- Public order 187
- Other theft 141
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 97
- Postcode households
- 40
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- WF17 9 residents
- 6,299
54 female, 43 male
Age bands in WF17 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
1,251 residents
649 residents
1,783 residents
1,636 residents
1,103 residents
This postcode contained 1.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF17 9 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
- 2.3%
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
27
within 5 km straight-line
BLACKBURN RD.MEDICAL CTR.
BLACKBURN ROAD, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9PL
ODS code B85025
924 m
KIRKGATE SURGERY
3 KIRKGATE, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9HE
ODS code B85640
1.1 km
COOK LANE SURGERY
COOK LANE, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 9JG
ODS code B85619
1.7 km
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
1.9 km
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
1.9 km
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
2.0 km
BROOKROYD HOUSE
BROOKROYD SURGERY, HECKMONDWIKE HEALTH CENTRE, 16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85014
2.1 km
UNDERCLIFFE SURGERY
16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85012
2.1 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
2.1 km
LIVERSEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
VALLEY ROAD, LIVERSEDGE, WF15 6DF
ODS code B85612
2.2 km
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
2.4 km
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
2.7 km
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
2.8 km
CLECKHEATON GROUP PRACTICE
CROSS CHURCH STREET, CLECKHEATON, BD19 3RQ
ODS code B85021
3.2 km
PARKVIEW SURGERY
GREENSIDE, CLECKHEATON, BD19 5AP
ODS code B85001
3.3 km
THE GREENWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GREEN WAY PRACTICE, CLECKHEATON HEALTH CENTRE, GREENSIDE, CLECKHEATON, BD19 5AP
ODS code B85030
3.3 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
3.6 km
DRIGHLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, DRIGHLINGTON, BRADFORD, BD11 1JU
ODS code B86678
3.6 km
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
3.8 km
LOCALA KIRKLEES SAS
LOCALA SAS, PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y00081
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 27 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Smithies Moor Lane
BCT · Birstall
- 0.1 miles
Smithies Moor Lane
BCT · Birstall
- 0.1 miles
Fairfield School
BCT · White Lee
- 0.1 miles
Fairfield School
BCT · White Lee
- 0.2 miles
Fairfield School
BCT · White Lee
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 006A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,607 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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 58 primary and 13 secondary schools. Fairfield School is the nearest published school at 316 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,334 published events cover 12 months, averaging 194.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,129 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.