Gomersal and Birkenshaw

What is it like to live in Gomersal and Birkenshaw?

Homes sold for a typical £228,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 328 of the 361 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 363 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 4 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Kirkgate Surgery, 1.8 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Low Moor, 4.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Gomersal and Birkenshaw?

Homes in Gomersal and Birkenshaw sold for a typical £228,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 185 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £235,000 from 229 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £403,000 38 sales
• Semi-detached £240,000 73 sales
• Terraced £165,000 59 sales
• Flat or maisonette £97,000 15 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole BD19 district, Gomersal and Birkenshaw's main postcode district: a typical £210,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Gomersal and Birkenshaw: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Gomersal and Birkenshaw?

6 of the 363 postcodes now in use in Gomersal and Birkenshaw came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 229 homes sold in Gomersal and Birkenshaw were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BD19 district, 9%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Gomersal and Birkenshaw?

Ofcom reports on 361 of the 363 postcodes in Gomersal and Birkenshaw. At 328 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Gomersal and Birkenshaw at risk of flooding?

None of the 363 postcodes in Gomersal and Birkenshaw is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Gomersal and Birkenshaw?

The open schools at the postcodes in Gomersal and Birkenshaw. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Gomersal and Birkenshaw?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Gomersal and Birkenshaw is Low Moor Rail Station, 4.2 km away in a straight line.

• Low Moor Rail Station Railway station 4.2 kmCycle
• Batley Rail Station Railway station 5.7 kmDrive
• Morley Rail Station Railway station 6.6 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Gomersal and Birkenshaw?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Gomersal and Birkenshaw. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Kirkgate Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01924 420242 1.8 kmCycle
• Blackburn Rd.medical Ctr. Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01924 552200 2.1 kmCycle
• Drighlington Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0113 295 6888 2.3 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Gomersal and Birkenshaw safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 793 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Gomersal and Birkenshaw over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 34, drugs 15, possession of weapons 7, robbery 4, bicycle theft 3, theft from the person 2.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile each way is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Gomersal and Birkenshaw?

Councils

Kirklees (350) and Bradford (13)

Parliamentary constituencies

Spen Valley (350) and Bradford South (13)

Police force area

West Yorkshire

Region

Yorkshire and The Humber

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.