Scholes (near Cleckheaton)

16°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 18° / 9° · 44% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 10° · Sunny

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

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Leeds Headingley Kerbside, United Kingdom

74 reported · July 2026▼ 9% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences33
• Anti-social behaviour12
• Other theft7
• Vehicle crime7

4 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Calderdale Valleys · West Yorkshire

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

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)

386 food businesses within 2 miles

• 330 rated 4–5 ★ (281 top)
• 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

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

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£191,540 average▲ 9.4% YoY

Across Calderdale · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (5.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 175.7p · Asda (8.3 km)

45 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)

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

£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%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Calderdale

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

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

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

184 applications decided

82.1% granted · 151 granted, 33 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

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)

9,125 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£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

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Spen Valley:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office414 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s292 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership276 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test244 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth220 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

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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)