HX3 6QY Calderdale

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Ovenden. 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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 (78% of about 910 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

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.

Historic landfill

4 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode, the nearest 320 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Beechwood Mills Shay Lane, Ovenden Not recorded Not recorded 320 m
Disused Railway Cutting Ovenden, Halifax 1980 to 1982 Inert, commercial; gas control on site 380 m
Beechwood Works Railway Cutting, Brant Avenue, Ovenden Not recorded Not recorded 380 m
Shay Lane Holmfield, Ovendon, Halifax 1980 to 1991 Inert, commercial 430 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 27 addresses are between 192 m and 199 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 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Sowerby Bridge 417,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Mytholmroyd 196,000 journeys in 2024–256.9 km (4.3 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 65 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shay Lane Smiths Ter Ovenden80 m
Bus or coach stationHalifax Bus Station Halifax Town Centre2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksNorth Bridge Car Park2.2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA19.8 km (12 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beechwood Medical Centre Good Jun 2016150 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ovenden Pharmacy150 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beechwood Community150 m
HospitalCalderdale Royal Hospital Requires improvement Aug 20264.5 km (2.8 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New Fern Good Aug 2022780 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ovenden Off Licence90 m

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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beechwood Park 13 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²530 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ovenden Park 3.6 ha370 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,890 m²1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Ovenden Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 490 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Ovenden HallListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Brow Pit mine shaft, gin circle, spoil heap and tramway, 270m south west of Catherine Slack FarmScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Shrogg's ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.8 miles) south
Lister Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Ringby HillHill780 m (0.5 miles) east
Tar Hill PlantationWood940 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Page HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) west
Tar HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Simm Carr CloughValley1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Albert ReservoirLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
55 to 5970
Under 552027

7 of the postcode's 27 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.

17 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 6 serious and 11 slight, in which 6 people were seriously hurt. 4 involved a pedestrian; 3 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. 24% happened in the dark, and 24% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202153
202241
202320
202430
202532
The most recent 10 of 17
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
21 Sep 2025 09:14 Slight 2 people A629, 30 mph Wet road
18 Aug 2025 05:45 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
23 Jan 2025 22:17 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian A629, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
4 Dec 2024 16:04 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
11 Jul 2024 16:35 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A629, 30 mph Daylight
2 Jun 2024 17:25 Slight 1 person: 1 child A629, 30 mph Daylight
2 Sep 2023 16:31 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
22 Jul 2023 01:50 Slight 1 person A629, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
27 Sep 2022 11:34 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A629, 30 mph Daylight
5 Jul 2022 09:21 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A629, 30 mph Daylight

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.

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: 327 residents in 163 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 age3640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)43%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented31%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 2 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 Jubilee Street North.