Property market
The five-year median is £700,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF17 9BW. 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 9BW
Birstall & Birkenshaw · Kirklees · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Batley
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF17 9BW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF17
- Postcode sector
- WF17 9
- Latitude
- 53.743243
- Longitude
- -1.660700
- British National Grid easting
- 422,476
- British National Grid northing
- 427,481
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Kirklees · E08000034
- Electoral ward
- Birstall & Birkenshaw · E05016505
- Parish or community
- E43000188
- Westminster constituency
- Spen Valley · E14001506
- Output area
- E00055705
- Lower layer super output area
- Kirklees 002B · E01011049
- Middle layer super output area
- Kirklees 002 · E02002272
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Fox Hill Farm, Owler Lane, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9BW | 12 June 2023 | £700,000 |
| 1, Owler Lane, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9BW | 23 December 2015 | £78,000 |
| 1, Owler Lane, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9BW | 7 August 2013 | £75,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 66
- Primary
- 47
- Secondary
- 9
- 226 m
Fieldhead Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 805 m
St Patrick's Catholic Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 939 m
St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior, Infant and Early Years School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,627
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 639
- Anti social behaviour 160
- Shoplifting 151
- Criminal damage and arson 143
- Public order 135
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- WF17 9 residents
- 6,299
4 female, 4 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 0.1% 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+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 55.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 55.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 55.6%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 88.9%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 88.9%
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
22
within 5 km straight-line
KIRKGATE SURGERY
3 KIRKGATE, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9HE
ODS code B85640
1.3 km
BLACKBURN RD.MEDICAL CTR.
BLACKBURN ROAD, BIRSTALL, BATLEY, WF17 9PL
ODS code B85025
1.3 km
DRIGHLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, DRIGHLINGTON, BRADFORD, BD11 1JU
ODS code B86678
1.4 km
GILDERSOME HEALTH CENTRE
FINKLE LANE, GILDERSOME, MORLEY, LEEDS, LS27 7HL
ODS code B86101
2.5 km
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
3.5 km
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
3.5 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
3.6 km
WINDSOR HOUSE GROUP PRACTICE
2 CORPORATION STREET, MORLEY, LEEDS, LS27 9NB
ODS code B86057
3.6 km
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
3.6 km
THE DEKEYSER GROUP PRACTICE
LITTLE FOUNTAIN STREET, MORLEY, LEEDS, LS27 9EN
ODS code B86067
3.7 km
COOK LANE SURGERY
COOK LANE, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 9JG
ODS code B85619
3.8 km
LIVERSEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
VALLEY ROAD, LIVERSEDGE, WF15 6DF
ODS code B85612
3.9 km
CLECKHEATON GROUP PRACTICE
CROSS CHURCH STREET, CLECKHEATON, BD19 3RQ
ODS code B85021
3.9 km
SOUTH QUEEN MEDICAL CENTRE
SOUTH QUEEN ST MEDICAL CENTRE, SOUTH QUEEN STREET, MORLEY, LEEDS, LS27 9EW
ODS code B86028
4.1 km
BROOKROYD HOUSE
BROOKROYD SURGERY, HECKMONDWIKE HEALTH CENTRE, 16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85014
4.2 km
UNDERCLIFFE SURGERY
16 UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WF16 0HH
ODS code B85012
4.2 km
PARKVIEW SURGERY
GREENSIDE, CLECKHEATON, BD19 5AP
ODS code B85001
4.2 km
THE GREENWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE GREEN WAY PRACTICE, CLECKHEATON HEALTH CENTRE, GREENSIDE, CLECKHEATON, BD19 5AP
ODS code B85030
4.2 km
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
4.2 km
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
4.3 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Field Head Lane Owler Ln
BCT · Birstall
- 0.1 miles
Field Head Lane Owler Ln
BCT · Birstall
- 0.1 miles
Field Head Lane Field Head Crescent
BCT · Birstall
- 0.2 miles
Fieldhead Academy
BCT · Birstall
- 0.2 miles
Branwell Avenue
BCT · Birstall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kirklees 002B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,031 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
66 open schools are in scope, including 47 primary and 9 secondary schools. Fieldhead Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 226 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,627 published events cover 12 months, averaging 135.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 639 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.