Is Liversedge a good place to live?

Liversedge has 17,519 residents, 44% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (12 per 1,000 a month) is above the median English town of its size (9.8). Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Liversedge postcode.

Liversedge recorded 12 crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary over 2026-06 to 2026-08 (police.uk), against 9.8 for the median English town of this size. The largest category was violent.

How many people live in Liversedge?

17,519 people live in Liversedge (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 9.7 km² — about 1,810 per km².

What are the schools like in Liversedge?

There are 10 schools inside Liversedge; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Hollybank School, Spen Valley High School and High Bank Junior Infant and Nursery School.

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Town · in Kirklees · Yorkshire and The Humber · 14 neighbourhoods

Living in Liversedge

Liversedge is a town in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England. This guide describes it as one place — who lives there, what sits inside its boundary and how safe it is — from official UK data. For any single street, the NestScope area report covers every Liversedge postcode.

Liversedge is a town of 17,519 people at 1,810 per km², where 44% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half. 8 of its 8 inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and it recorded 12 crimes per 1,000 residents a month.

Good schools
Mixed neighbourhoods
Parks
Higher crime than most towns

17,519Liversedge population

1,810people per km²

44%live in England's better-off half

12crimes per 1,000 a month

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schools stations parks9.7 km² · ONS built-up area boundary

01 — What's in Liversedge

What's in Liversedge: schools, GPs, stations, parks and shops

Counted inside the town boundary. A school or station two streets past it belongs to the next place.

●Schools100% of inspected rated Good or Outstanding10

●GP practices · hospitals2 pharmacies, 1 dentists3 · 0

●Rail stations · bus stops0 · 208

●Parks & playing fields35.2 ha — (·· ha), (·· ha), (·· ha)23

●Supermarkets5

●Libraries1

02 — Schools in Liversedge

Best-rated schools in Liversedge

1Hollybank SchoolOtherOutstanding 2Spen Valley High SchoolSecondaryGood 3High Bank Junior Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimaryGood 4Hightown Junior Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimaryGood 5Littletown Junior Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimaryGood

Ranked by Ofsted grade. All 10 schools → Schools in Liversedge

03 — Liversedge crime rate

Liversedge crime rate

12crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary · 2026-06 to 2026-08

More than the median English town of this size (9.8) · 210 recorded crimes a month in all

Violent

ASB

Shoplifting

Public order

Vehicle

Burglary

England median for a town of this size · full bar = 10 per 1,000 a month · police.uk street-level data

04 — Questions about Liversedge

Is Liversedge a good place to live?: Liversedge has 17,519 residents, 44% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (12 per 1,000 a month) is above the median English town of its size (9.8). Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Liversedge postcode.
Is Liversedge safe?: Liversedge recorded 12 crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary over 2026-06 to 2026-08 (police.uk), against 9.8 for the median English town of this size. The largest category was violent.
How many people live in Liversedge?: 17,519 people live in Liversedge (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 9.7 km² — about 1,810 per km².
What are the schools like in Liversedge?: There are 10 schools inside Liversedge; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Hollybank School, Spen Valley High School and High Bank Junior Infant and Nursery School.
Where is Liversedge?: Liversedge is a town in Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England.

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This page is NestScope's guide to Liversedge as a whole town, built from the same official sources as the area reports: the ONS boundary of the built-up area, Census 2021, the English Indices of Deprivation, police.uk recorded crime and the Department for Education's school register. Counts are of what sits inside the boundary; crime is a three-month average. It is updated as those sources publish.

Sources — ONS built-up areas 2022, Output Area lookups and Census 2021 (OGL v3.0) · English Indices of Deprivation 2019, carried onto 2021 LSOAs · police.uk street-level crime, the town boundary passed as the query polygon · DfE GIAS + Ofsted, NHS ODS, NaPTAN, OS Open Greenspace, Geolytix, Arts Council — every point counted by which 2021 neighbourhood it falls in.