OL14 postcode district: Todmorden and around

OL14 is a postcode district in England, with 788 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Todmorden and Hebden Bridge. It is split between 3 councils: Calderdale (783 postcodes), Burnley (3) and Rochdale (2). 3 of its 788 postcodes are in Lancashire. ONS lists no county for the other 785.

Postcodes in use: 788
Sectors: 5
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 2 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in OL14, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 16
In use before 2020: 772

Of the 788 postcodes in OL14 that ONS places, 16 are new since 2020 and 772 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.7144, longitude -2.1011. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

OL14 7DYJanuary 2026 OL14 7BNAugust 2025 OL14 7BWOctober 2024 OL14 6BQAugust 2024 OL14 7BTAugust 2023

What broadband can you get in OL14?

Ofcom reports on 770 of the 788 postcodes in OL14. At 497 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit497 of 770

Postcodes where every home can get superfast670 of 770

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is OL14 at risk of flooding?

317 of the 788 postcodes in OL14 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 2,554 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 317 of 788 postcodes High: 1,229Medium: 1,325Low: 669Very low: 2

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in OL14?

Homes in OL14 sold for a typical £185,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 225 sales, up 0.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£185,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£184,550 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 0.2% on the 12 months before

Detached £475,000 23 sales
Semi-detached £242,500 38 sales
Terraced £165,000 148 sales
Flat or maisonette £153,500 16 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it