Scholes (near Cleckheaton)

6°CCloudy

• Today: 10° / 5° · 30% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:32

9h 23m 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

• 6.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

62 reported · August 2026▲ 22% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences31
• Criminal damage & arson8
• Anti-social behaviour6
• Public order5

2 stop & searches · mostly stolen goods

Neighbourhood team: Calderdale Valleys · West Yorkshire

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

357 reported road collisions (2025)

99 killed or seriously injured · 463 casualties · 17.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

382 food businesses within 2 miles

• 324 rated 4–5 ★ (276 top)
• 8 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Brighouse (3.1 km)
• 21 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£197,651 average▲ 7.8% YoY

Across Calderdale · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£756 average monthly rent▲ 2.3% YoY

• 1 bed £548
• 2 bed £684
• 3 bed £817

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

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

3,014 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 (5.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (9.1 km)

25 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

71 charging locations within ~8 km

• 42 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Hartshead Moor West Supercharger (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches17
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

206,631 residents in Calderdale · 568/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK9,304
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK8,940
• Net moves+364

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 71 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

20% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,420 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

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

114 schools · 36,139 pupils

81 primary · 11 secondary · 22 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Calderdale

177 CQC-registered services

• Care homes46
• GP practices25
• Dentists38
• Homecare agencies49
• Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Calderdale

• Within the Green Belt
• 24 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

206 applications decided

80.6% granted · 166 granted, 40 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Reform UK majority

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

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

• Schools4
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens11
• Restaurants & cafés16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,155 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£717 median full-time weekly pay

4.3% 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

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

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

• 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

5 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in BD19

• Parkview Surgery
• Cleckheaton Group Practice
• The Greenway Medical Practice

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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  Hartshead Moor Top · 0.1 km

  Hartshead Moor Top is a hamlet in the county of West Yorkshire, England, halfway between Brighouse and Cleckheaton on the A643. It is close to the Hartshead Moor services on the M62 motorway. In 1974 the service stati…

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  Hartshead Moor services · 0.7 km

  Hartshead Moor services is a motorway service station on the M62 near Brighouse, West Yorkshire.

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  Scholes, Cleckheaton · 1.3 km

  Scholes is a village near Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England.

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  A643 road · 1.3 km

  The A643 is a main road between Leeds and Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. Its eastern end is at the Armley Gyratory roundabout on the western edge of Leeds City Centre. The road then goes through the followin…

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  Whitcliffe Mount School · 1.6 km

  Whitcliffe Mount School is a mixed secondary school located in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England.

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  Bailiff Bridge railway station · 1.6 km

  Bailiff Bridge railway station was built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to serve the village of Bailiff Bridge north of Brighouse in West Yorkshire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)