Dewsbury

8°COvercast

• Today: 12° / 8° · 65% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:12Sunset 16:28

9h 16m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Leeds Headingley Kerbside, United Kingdom

• 7.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

321 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences106
• Anti-social behaviour39
• Public order34
• Shoplifting33

38 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Dewsbury · West Yorkshire

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

632 reported road collisions (2025)

189 killed or seriously injured · 805 casualties · 14.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 394 rated 4–5 ★ (303 top)
• 39 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Dewsbury (0.3 km)
• 79 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£208,427 average▲ 5.1% YoY

Across Kirklees · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£782 average monthly rent▲ 12.8% YoY

• 1 bed £584
• 2 bed £712
• 3 bed £866

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

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

5,300 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (8.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (8.9 km)

23 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

55 charging locations within ~8 km

• 35 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 400 kW
• Nearest: South Street (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms1
• Sports pitches34
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds22

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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK17,249
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK19,043
• Net moves−1,794

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 85 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

13% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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

201 schools · 65,248 pupils

142 primary · 24 secondary · 35 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Kirklees

394 CQC-registered services

• Care homes127
• GP practices80
• Dentists81
• Homecare agencies83
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Kirklees

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

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

428 applications decided

88.8% granted · 380 granted, 48 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Iqbal Mohamed

Independent

Dewsbury and Batley

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK (minority)

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

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

• Schools22
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies5
• Supermarkets7
• Parks & greens12
• Restaurants & cafés27

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

17,700 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

244 jobs advertised · £36,504 avg

e.g. HGV 1 Driver Nights, Electrical Maintenance Engineer, Estimator

Source: Adzuna

£700 median full-time weekly pay

4.8% 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 51% · Wind 22% · Gas 15% · Nuclear 7%

118 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

12 GP surgeries · 9 pharmacies in WF13

• Ward 19 Male, Priestley Unit- Bcss Inpatient Unit
• Calder View Surgery
• North Road Suite,Ravensthorpe Health Ctr

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Dewsbury and Batley:

• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 499 local signatures · 20,508 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases121 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Introduce weekend access to death certification for burials101 local signatures · 9,659 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth93 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK93 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• Dewsbury Market Place railway station · 0.1 km

  Dewsbury railway station served the town of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England from 1867 to 1961 on the Dewsbury Branch Railway.

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  Dewsbury Minster · 0.1 km

  Dewsbury Minster, the Minster Church of All Saints is the parish church in Dewsbury, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It dates from the 13th century and was rebuilt in 1895. It is situated on Vicarage Road and Churc…

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  Dewsbury bus station · 0.2 km

  Dewsbury bus station serves the town of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. The bus station is managed and owned by Metro.

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  Dewsbury Town Hall · 0.2 km

  Dewsbury Town Hall is a Victorian town hall that stands in front of the old marketplace in the centre of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

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  Dewsbury · 0.3 km

  Dewsbury is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is sited on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It lies to the west of Wakefield,…

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  Dewsbury railway station · 0.3 km

  Dewsbury railway station serves the town of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, England. Situated 9.25 miles (15 km) south west of Leeds on the main line to Huddersfield and Manchester, the station was opened by the London an…

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