Kirklees

Kirklees
Metropolitan borough
From left to right Top: Huddersfield skyline Upper: Dewsbury Minster and Cleckheaton town hall Lower: Holmfirth town centre and Marsden Moor Bottom: Kirklees Light Railway and Castle Hill with the Victoria Tower
Coat of arms
Kirklees shown within West Yorkshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
City region	Leeds
Ceremonial county	West Yorkshire
Established	1 April 1974
Administrative HQ	Huddersfield
Government
• Type	Metropolitan borough
• Body	Kirklees Council
Area
• Total	158 sq mi (409 km²)
• Rank	85th
Population (2022)
• Total	437,593
• Rank	14th
• Density	2,770/sq mi (1,071/km²)
Ethnicity (2021)
• Ethnic groups	List 73.6% White 19.4% Asian 3.1% Mixed 2.3% Black 1.5% other
Religion (2021)
• Religion	List 39.4% Christianity 34.8% no religion 18.5% Islam 5.5% not stated 0.8% Sikhism 0.4% Hinduism 0.4% other 0.2% Buddhism 0.1% Judaism
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
Postcode areas	BD, HD, WF
Dialling codes	01484 (Huddersfield) 01924 (Wakefield) 01422(Halifax)
ISO 3166 code	GB-KIR
Vehicle registration prefix	Y
GSS code	E08000034
NUTS 3 code	UKE44
ONS code	00CZ
Councillors	69
MPs	Iqbal Mohamed (I) Kim Leadbeater (L) Paul Davies (L) Harpreet Uppal (L)
Police area	West Yorkshire
Fire service	West Yorkshire
Ambulance service	Yorkshire
Website	kirklees.gov.uk

Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. The borough comprises the ten towns of Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite. It is governed by Kirklees Council. Kirklees had a population of 422,500 in 2011; it is the third-largest metropolitan district in Yorkshire by area, behind Doncaster and Leeds.