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Cleckheaton

Cleckheaton is a town in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of around 27,393. It has around 8 restaurants and cafés, with 21 bus stops and Brighouse railway station 2.8 km away. The average sold house price is around £220,830, and there were around 173 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Cleckheaton area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Calderdale area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 206,631 residents at roughly 568 people per km².

Council
Calderdale
County
West Yorkshire
Constituency
Calder Valley
Police force
West Yorkshire
46/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 176th of 294 English council areas — better than 40% of them.

Low crime10
Home affordability90
Affordable rents90
Good schools80
Life expectancy25
Low deprivation24
Employment27
Low council tax55

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

19°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 22° / 14° · 15% rain
  • Tomorrow: 18° / 11° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:27

12h 51m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

38US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Leeds Headingley Kerbside, United Kingdom

Crime

191 reported · July 2026 16% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences73
  • Anti-social behaviour30
  • Public order16
  • Vehicle crime16

7 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Batley and Spen · West Yorkshire

Local policing priorities

  • Batley Town Centre area ASB - Officers in Batley Town Centre are addressing anti-social behaviour and parking concerns that negatively im…
  • Birstall/Birkenshaw & East Bierley / Liversedge & Gomersal areas As the weather continues to be warm and dry and more people spend time w…

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

Road safety

373 reported road collisions (2024)

119 killed or seriously injured · 476 casualties · 18.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

355 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 315 rated 4–5 ★ (260 top)
  • 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Low Moor (3.9 km)
  • 58 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Low Moor (3.7 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£191,540 average 9.4% YoY

Across Calderdale · to 2026-06

Detached£369,276
Semi-detached£229,421
Terraced£166,854
Flat£121,168

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£753 average monthly rent 2.2% YoY

  • 1 bed £546
  • 2 bed £681
  • 3 bed £813

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

Affordability

5.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.4 times median annual pay (4.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (7.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 177.7p · Asda (6.6 km)

45 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

72 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 44 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: St Johns Car Park (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches38
  • Playgrounds16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

206,631 residents in Calderdale · 568/km²

  • Under 16: 19%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 76 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

16% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,420 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (46% of 97,420)

A £1,613
B £1,882
C £2,151
D £2,420
E £2,958
F £3,496
G £4,034
H £4,840

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

Schools

114 schools · 36,139 pupils

81 primary · 11 secondary · 22 other

Ofsted: 51 of 54 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (94%)

99inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Trinity Academy HalifaxOutstanding
  • The Crossley Heath SchoolGood
  • The North Halifax Grammar SchoolGood
  • Todmorden High School, A SHARE AcademyGood
  • Trinity Academy GrammarGood
  • Brighouse High School
  • Lightcliffe Academy
  • Park Lane Academy
  • Rastrick High School
  • Ryburn Valley High School
  • The Brooksbank School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Calderdale

Care & health services

176 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes47
  • GP practices24
  • Dentists38
  • Homecare agencies48
  • Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Calderdale

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

184 applications decided

82.1% granted · 151 granted, 33 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Kim Leadbeater

Labour

Spen Valley

Recent votes:

  • AyeTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026
  • NoHealth Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Reform UK majority

  • Lab 8
  • LD 2
  • Grn 7
  • Ref 34
  • Oth 3

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools6
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies3
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens13
  • Restaurants & cafés24

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

9,125 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

146 jobs advertised · £36,258 avg

e.g. HLTA, Become a FCE First Certificate in English Tutor in Cleckheaton – Flexible & Remote, Online Maths Tutoring Job in West Marsh – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£717 median full-time weekly pay

4.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,151 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

34% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 110,473 certificates

15.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

79% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 44% · Wind 26% · Gas 14% · Imports 7%

107 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for Yorkshire · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 82.7 yrs women · 78.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 60.9 women · 60.2 men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.6
  • Happiness yesterday7.1
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.6

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Spen Valley:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Cleckheaton Town Hall · 0.1 km

    Cleckheaton Town Hall is a municipal building in Bradford Road, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Spenborough Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

  • Cleckheaton Central railway station · 0.2 km

    Cleckheaton Central railway station was a railway station serving the West Yorkshire town of Cleckheaton, England, until it was closed in the Beeching era, which saw the closure of many minor lines and stations around…

  • Cleckheaton bus station · 0.2 km

    Cleckheaton bus station serves the town of Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England. The station is owned and maintained by West Yorkshire Metro. It is situated in the town centre with entrances from Dewsbury Road and Gre…

  • Providence Place United Reformed Church, Cleckheaton · 0.4 km

    The former Providence Place United Reformed Church, also known as Providence Place Congregational Church, is a Victorian church building in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England, completed in 1859 to Classical designs…

  • Cleckheaton · 0.4 km

    Cleckheaton is a town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated south of Bradford, east of Brighouse, west of Batley and south-…

  • Cleckheaton Spen railway station · 0.6 km

    Cleckheaton Spen railway station served the town of Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England, from 1900 to 1953 on the Leeds New Line. It is one of two disused stations in Cleckheaton, the other being Cleckheaton Central.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Cleckheaton?
Cleckheaton is a town in West Yorkshire, England, in the Calderdale local authority.
What is the population of Cleckheaton?
Cleckheaton has an approximate settlement population of 27,393.
How deprived is Cleckheaton?
The Calderdale local authority, which includes Cleckheaton, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.