Kirklees

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• Today: 17° / 9° · 37% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 11° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:30Sunset 19:37

13h 8m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

34US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Leeds Headingley Kerbside, United Kingdom

279 reported · July 2026▲ 21% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences108
• Shoplifting33
• Anti-social behaviour32
• Criminal damage & arson22

9 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Huddersfield · West Yorkshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

605 reported road collisions (2024)

175 killed or seriously injured · 780 casualties · 14 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 427 rated 4–5 ★ (314 top)
• 20 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Huddersfield (2.5 km)
• 78 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£205,773 average▲ 5.4% YoY

Across Kirklees · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£780 average monthly rent▲ 12.6% YoY

• 1 bed £582
• 2 bed £710
• 3 bed £864

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

6.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.3 times median annual pay (5.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (1.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 175.7p · Asda (9.3 km)

19 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

35 charging locations within ~8 km

• 21 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Asda Aspley (1.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms2
• Sports pitches51
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds24

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

433,216 residents in Kirklees · 1,060/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 87 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

12% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,441 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (44% of 193,280)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

203 schools · 66,199 pupils

144 primary · 24 secondary · 35 other

Ofsted: 72 of 88 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (82%)

182inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Kirklees

395 CQC-registered services

• Care homes127
• GP practices80
• Dentists81
• Homecare agencies85
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Kirklees

• Not in the Green Belt
• 158 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

476 applications decided

89.1% granted · 424 granted, 52 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Harpreet Uppal

Labour

Huddersfield

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK (minority)

• Con 9
• LD 6
• Grn 12
• Ref 26
• Oth 16

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools13
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets5
• Parks & greens21
• Restaurants & cafés40

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

17,450 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£700 median full-time weekly pay

4.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,911 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

38% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 195,699 certificates

15% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

80% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 63% · Gas 17% · Wind 11% · Solar 4%

144 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for Yorkshire · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 58 women · 57.8 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

5 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in HD5

• Dalton Surgery
• The Almondbury Surgery
• The Waterloo Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Huddersfield:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s350 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office290 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership287 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 241 local signatures · 19,618 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test204 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Hill View Academy · 0.4 km

  Hill View Academy is a 3–11 mixed primary school with academy status in Almondbury, West Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Impact Education Multi Academy Trust.

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  Tolson Museum · 0.6 km

  The Tolson Memorial Museum, also known as Tolson Museum, is housed in Ravensknowle Hall, a Victorian mansion in Ravensknowle Park on Wakefield Road in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The museum was given to the…

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  Almondbury · 0.7 km

  Almondbury is a village 2 miles (3.2 km) south-east of Huddersfield town centre in the Kirklees district, of West Yorkshire, England. The population of Almondbury in 2001 was 7,368 increasing to 18,346 at the 2011 cen…

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  Waterloo, Huddersfield · 1.1 km

  Waterloo is a suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) to the east of Huddersfield Town Centre. It is the part of Dalton named after the former Waterloo public house and consists mostly…

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  Moldgreen · 1.1 km

  Moldgreen is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in England, approximately one mile (1.5 km) east of the town centre between Dalton and Aspley.

• Kirkwood Hospice · 1.2 km

  Kirkwood Hospice is a hospice situated in Dalton, Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, England. It provides Specialist palliative care for the terminally ill in Kirklees. It was built on the site of the former Mill Hill I…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)