| Seacroft | |
|---|---|
 Seacroft from Fearnville | |
  Seacroft  Seacroft Location within West Yorkshire | |
| Population | 14,246 (2011 Census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SE362365 |
| Metropolitan borough | |
| Metropolitan county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LEEDS |
| Postcode district | LS14 |
| Dialling code | 0113 |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| UK Parliament | |
Seacroft is an outer-city suburb/township consisting mainly of council estate housing covering an extensive area of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the LS14 Leeds postcode area, around 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Leeds city centre.
It sits in the Killingbeck & Seacroft ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds East parliamentary constituency.
The population of the corresponding Leeds City Ward was nearly 18,000 in 2001[2] and fell to 14,426 in 2011. The name is often used as a catch-all for Seacroft and the neighbouring areas of Whinmoor and Swarcliffe, other large east Leeds council estates which merge into each other.
Seacroft includes one of the largest council estates in the country and Yorkshire's second-largest council estate, after Bransholme in Kingston upon Hull. The latter, however, was part of Humberside county from 1974 to 1996. Because of its size, Seacroft has often been referred to as a town. The original vision, envisaged by the council, was that it would be a 'Town within the City Limits', and the Seacroft Civic Centre was often referred to as the 'Seacroft Town Centre'.[3]
- ^ 53 Super Output Areas within the Killingbeck and Seacroft ward make up Seacroft http://ukcensusdata.com/killingbeck-and-seacroft-e05001430#sthash.8wFY4n3n.vrLNgl3N.dpbs.dpbs
- ^ Office for National Statistics Archived 6 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine 2001 census for Seacroft ward 17,725 on 29 April 2001
- ^ Leodis photographic archive Seacroft Town Centre, aerial view