Heckmondwike

12°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 12° / 7° · 64% 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

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

221 reported · August 2026▼ 3% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences90
• Anti-social behaviour24
• Criminal damage & arson21
• Public order17

7 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Batley and Spen · 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

• 433 rated 4–5 ★ (351 top)
• 18 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Dewsbury (3.3 km)
• 62 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 (10.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (8.4 km)

24 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

58 charging locations within ~8 km

• 34 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 400 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches30
• Playgrounds21

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
• 33 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

Kim Leadbeater

Labour

Spen Valley

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK (minority)

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

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

• Schools11
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens12
• Restaurants & cafés31

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

17,700 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

32 jobs advertised · £34,671 avg

e.g. Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer, Welder Fabricator, Assembly Operator

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

84% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 42% · Wind 36% · Gas 12% · Imports 4%

98 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

4 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in WF16

• Undercliffe Surgery
• Brookroyd House
• Cook Lane Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Spen Valley:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth221 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases221 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND183 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK174 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills152 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

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

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  Heckmondwike bus station · 0.2 km

  Heckmondwike bus station is a bus station in Heckmondwike, England.

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  Heckmondwike Spen railway station · 0.4 km

  Heckmondwike Spen was a railway station opened by the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, England. The station was one of two in the town, the other being Heckmondwike railway statio…

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  Heckmondwike · 0.5 km

  Heckmondwike is a town in the Kirklees district, West Yorkshire, England, 9 miles (14 km) south west of Leeds. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is close to Cleckheaton and Liversedge. It is in the…

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  Heckmondwike Grammar School · 0.6 km

  Heckmondwike Grammar School (HGS) is an 11–18 co-educational, charitable grammar school and sixth form with academy status in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, England.

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  Norristhorpe · 0.6 km

  Norristhorpe is a village in the township of Liversedge in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, and is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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  Liversedge · 0.8 km

  Liversedge is an industrial town in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Liversedge lies between Cleckheaton and Heckmondwike. The Kirklees ward is now…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)