UK Property Check

UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/kirklees

Council areaYorkshire and the Humber, England

House prices in Kirklees

Homes in Kirklees sold for a median of £215,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 10,431 standard sales.

That makes it the sixth most expensive of the 15 council areas in Yorkshire and the Humber with at least 300 sales. The median across the region was £215,000.

Median sale price£215,00010,431 standard sales
Middle half of prices£155,000 to £295,000
Change since 2016+54%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 54%, from £140,000 in 2016 to £215,000 in 2025, the second biggest rise of the 15 council areas in Yorkshire and the Humber.

Postcode districts in Kirklees

The dearest district was HD9 (Holmfirth), at £280,000, and the cheapest was HD1 (Huddersfield), at £137,500. The dearest median is 2.0 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were HD8 (Huddersfield) and WF14 (Mirfield), and the next cheapest WF13 (Dewsbury) and WF16 (Heckmondwike).

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Each dot is a postcode district in Kirklees, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The list below gives the same figures.

Post towns in Kirklees, by number of sales: Huddersfield (7 districts), Holmfirth (HD9), Dewsbury (WF12, WF13), Batley (WF17), Cleckheaton (BD19), Mirfield (WF14), Liversedge (WF15), Heckmondwike (WF16).

Districts with at least 100 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. HD9Holmfirth, 1,168 sales£280,000£3,1600%
  2. HD8Huddersfield, 1,130 sales£271,000£3,125+7%
  3. WF14Mirfield, 613 sales£243,000Too few+7%
  4. BD19Cleckheaton, 675 sales£220,000£2,486+4%
  5. HD7Huddersfield, 687 sales£217,000£2,764+6%
  6. HD2Huddersfield, 643 sales£215,000£2,470+10%
  7. HD3Huddersfield, 869 sales£205,000£2,710+8%
  8. WF15Liversedge, 443 sales£200,000Too few+10%
  9. WF12Dewsbury, 730 sales£195,000£2,411+7%
  10. WF17Batley, 806 sales£185,500£2,3390%
  11. HD4Huddersfield, 722 sales£185,000£2,734+5%
  12. HD5Huddersfield, 739 sales£181,000£2,353+3%
  13. WF16Heckmondwike, 236 sales£170,000Too few+3%
  14. WF13Dewsbury, 334 sales£150,000Too few+11%
  15. HD1Huddersfield, 299 sales£137,500Too few+11%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median held or rose in every district with enough sales to compare, most in HD1 (Huddersfield) and WF13 (Dewsbury), up 11%.

Streets with the most standard sales in the districts listed above, September 2024 to August 2026:

  • Leeds Road, Dewsbury (WF12)47 sales
  • Cliffe Hill View, Skelmanthorpe (HD8)33 sales
  • Halifax Road, Liversedge (WF15)31 sales
  • Weavers Drive, Huddersfield (HD2)30 sales
  • Fieldway Rise, Huddersfield (HD4)30 sales
  • Manchester Road, Linthwaite (HD7)28 sales
  • Blossom Walk, Soothill (WF17)28 sales
  • Mallard Court, Huddersfield (HD4)25 sales

Of the streets with at least 10 sales, the dearest by median price were Birch Way, Honley (HD9, detached houses, £460,000), Highfield Close, Fixby (HD2, detached houses, £433,500) and Holly Way, Honley (HD9, detached houses, £427,500).

The cheapest were The Park, Kirkburton (HD8, flats, £78,000), Textile Street, Dewsbury (WF13, flats, £80,000) and May Street, Huddersfield (HD4, terraced houses, £93,500).

Prices by property type

Standard sales in Kirklees, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached2,542£370,000£295,000 to £460,000£3,224/m²from 96 sales
Semi-detached3,543£222,000£178,000 to £265,000£2,717/m²from 141 sales
Terraced3,792£160,000£125,000 to £208,000£2,179/m²from 127 sales
Flats and maisonettes554£112,500£83,000 to £150,000Too few

Terraced houses and semi-detached houses sold in similar numbers in Kirklees, at 36% and 34% of sales.

Living in Kirklees

Crime

90 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to August 2026

Higher than 71 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 84.

The rate counts every crime recorded in an area against the people who live there, so shops, stations and nightlife push it up.

Gigabit broadband

96% of homes can get it

Higher than 85 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 89%.

Radon

87% of postcodes are in a 1 km square that includes a radon Affected Area

Higher than 80 in 100 council areas.

In a radon Affected Area, UKHSA recommends a radon test. A UKradon report gives the result for an exact address.

Council tax

Band D is £2,441 a year in Kirklees for 2026 to 2027

Near the middle of all council areas. England: £2,392.

Band D includes every charge on the bill, such as police, fire and any county, parish or town council.

The free check gives these for a single home, with the nearest schools and road and rail noise (how we work them out).

Crime: data.police.uk, with Census 2021 population from the Office for National Statistics. Broadband: Ofcom Connected Nations, January 2026. Radon: the British Geological Survey and UKHSA. Council tax: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Council areas in Yorkshire and the Humber

Median sale price of the 15 council areas in Yorkshire and the Humber with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026, dearest first.

  1. York£307,500
  2. North Yorkshire£270,000
  3. Leeds£248,000
  4. East Riding of Yorkshire£225,000
  5. Sheffield£220,000
  6. Kirklees£215,000
  7. Wakefield£205,000
  8. Rotherham£195,000
  9. Calderdale£194,000
  10. Bradford£186,000
  11. Barnsley£180,000
  12. Doncaster£180,000
  13. North Lincolnshire£177,000
  14. North East Lincolnshire£165,000
  15. Kingston upon Hull£140,000
All 15 council areas in Yorkshire and the Humber, ranked

About these figures

Kirklees's figures come from 10,431 standard sales, each placed in the council area by its own postcode (how we build council pages).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.