HX1 5RE Calderdale

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Halifax Town. Region: Yorkshire and The Humber.

Streets

House prices and rents in Calderdale

A typical home in Calderdale cost £197,651 in August 2026, 7.8% more than a year before. That is 27% more than five years earlier and 60% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£380,393
Semi-detached£236,606
Terraced£172,551
Flat or maisonette£124,145
Bought by a first-time buyer£174,353

Private renters in Calderdale paid £760 a month on average in September 2026, 3.2% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£551
Two bedrooms£688
Three bedrooms£821
Four or more bedrooms£1,130

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Council tax

What each band costs in Calderdale in 2026-27: Band D £2,420 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,420£2,958£3,496£4,034£4,840

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (94% of about 510 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the postcode, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Ernest Gill And Son, Holmfield Industrial Estate - Biomass Boiler Calderdale 22/00878/FUL Biomass 0.2 MW Permission granted, not yet built Sep 2022 3.5 km (2.2 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Flood risk

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

7 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode spilled 164 times, for 247 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Hebble Brook (Culverted), Ovenden Brook, Hebble Brook Culverted, Ovenden Brook (Culverted) and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Raglan Street Cso Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook (Culverted) 65 132 150 m
Lee Bridge Cso Yorkshire Water; monitored 87% of the year Ovenden Brook 0 0 420 m (0.3 miles)
Pellon Lane Cso Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook Culverted 1 0 470 m (0.3 miles)
Ovenden Road Cso Yorkshire Water Ovenden Brook (Culverted) 13 22 630 m (0.4 miles)
Mount Pellon Cso Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook Culverted 60 55 650 m (0.4 miles)
Stannary Cso Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook 0 0 730 m (0.5 miles)
Dene Place No 2 Cso Yorkshire Water Hebble Brook 25 38 730 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

This postcode is in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 17,021 kWh of it on average in 2024, 23% more than the district's 13,871 kWh, and 4,300 kWh of electricity, 26% more than the district's 3,402 kWh. There are gas meters for about 88% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is HX1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Historic landfill

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode, the nearest 310 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Birks Hall Tip Shroggs Road, Halifax, Yorkshire 1962 to 1992 Inert, industrial, commercial, household, liquid sludge; gas control on site 310 m
Walsh Lane Lee Bank, Halifax Not recorded Liquid sludge 490 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 21 addresses are between 192 m and 196 m above sea level (195 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsHalifax 1.8 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Sowerby Bridge 417,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Brighouse 388,000 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.4 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 69 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crossley Gardens Pellon50 m
Bus or coach stationHalifax Bus Station Halifax Town Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parksCross Hills Car Park900 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station490 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA20.9 km (13 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Caritas Group Practice Good Sep 2026580 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Horne Street Pharmacy260 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Johns Health Centre350 m
HospitalCalderdale Royal Hospital Requires improvement Aug 20262.7 km (1.7 miles)
Care homes12 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Eden Court Care Home Good May 202560 m
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police630 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kay Group - Pellon Lane Service Station Cashzone240 m

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.2 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 350 m from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Jubilee Nursery HX1 5NB Full day care 52 Not inspected yet 350 m
St Georges Pre-School HX3 5BT Full day care 24 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 530 m (0.3 miles)
The Northern Lights Preschool and Out of School Club HX1 5EE Sessional day care 65 Outstanding (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 580 m (0.4 miles)
Polly's Private Day Nursery HX3 5AX Full day care 100 Good (Jun 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 690 m (0.4 miles)
Tot Spot Day Nursery HX3 5AX Full day care 65 Nov 2025: Strong standard in 6 areas 690 m (0.4 miles)
Stagecoach Halifax King's Church HX1 2TS Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 870 m (0.5 miles)
M & S Nurseries HX1 2TE Full day care 100 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 940 m (0.6 miles)
Waterloo House Day Nursery Ltd HX1 2TE Full day care 65 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 940 m (0.6 miles)
Kids Planet Halifax HX1 2EN Full day care 115 Outstanding (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Wiseowls Learning HX1 1DU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 85 childminders and 6 home childcarers (nannies) in Calderdale. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shroggs Park 11 ha280 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²260 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,750 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dyson Road Allotments 8,210 m²640 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Shrogg's Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 480 m (0.3 miles) north. 103 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 16 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Shrogg's ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II480 m (0.3 miles) north
Lister Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II500 m (0.3 miles) south
Belle Vue (Public Library)Listed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) south
The gibbet platformScheduled monument610 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Platform at north end of terrace in People's Park with urnListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) south
Old Lane Mill Rawson's MillListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) north
6 Cast Iron Urns on Pedestals to Terrace in People's ParkListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) south
Ventilation chimney and furnace house 260m south of Park FarmScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Snake Hill WoodWood370 m north-west
Albert ReservoirLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Pule HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Beacon HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) east
Page HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Warley CloughValley2.3 km (1.5 miles) south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6440
55 to 59120
Under 55521

16 of the postcode's 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 250 m of the postcode's centre. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

11 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 9 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 4 involved a pedestrian; 3 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 18% happened in the dark, and 27% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202251
202330
202400
202521
The most recent 10 of 11
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
30 Jun 2025 17:15 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
17 May 2025 18:45 Serious 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
8 Sep 2023 16:25 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
16 Aug 2023 07:50 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
14 Jul 2023 15:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
6 Dec 2022 17:10 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
27 Oct 2022 15:30 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
24 Oct 2022 15:50 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
8 May 2022 17:50 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
31 Jan 2022 19:45 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Calderdale: see them on the Calderdale page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 359 residents in 109 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age2940
Children under 1532%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)48%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work39%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)15%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)67%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all13%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Sefton Terrace.