Brighouse
Brighouse is covered by postcode districts BD12, HD6, HX3 and HX5. It is mostly in the Calderdale council area: 1,010 of its 1,018 postcodes. The others are in Bradford.
Every postcode in Brighouse, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 61
- At medium risk at worst: 15
- At low risk at worst: 38
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 904
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 1,018 postcodes in Brighouse that ONS places, 61 have a home or business at high risk, 15 are at medium risk at worst, 38 are at low risk at worst and 904 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 53.7077, longitude -1.7894. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
61 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Brighouse?
Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. At 864 of the 981 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 741 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 114 of its 1,018 postcodes. It has 12 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Brighouse, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Brighouse?
Homes in Brighouse sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 479 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £220,000 from 571 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £374,250 82 sales
- Semi-detached £245,000 179 sales
- Terraced £165,000 195 sales
- Flat or maisonette £110,000 23 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole HD6 district, Brighouse's main postcode district: a typical £215,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Brighouse: 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.
Are new homes being built in Brighouse?
39 of the 1,018 postcodes now in use in Brighouse came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 36 of the 571 homes sold in Brighouse were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HD6 district, 7%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Brighouse | Across the HD6 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 13 of 479 (3%) | 15 of 396 (4%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 36 of 571 (6%) | 31 of 463 (7%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What broadband can you get in Brighouse?
Ofcom reports on 981 of the 1,018 postcodes in Brighouse. At 864 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Brighouse at risk of flooding?
114 of the 1,018 postcodes in Brighouse 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 741 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Brighouse?
The open schools at the postcodes in Brighouse (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Infant School250 m 156 pupils, 180 places
- St Andrew's CofE (VA) Junior School300 m 224 pupils, 240 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse900 m 196 pupils, 210 places
- Trinity Academy St Chad's1.0 km 121 pupils, 210 places
- Longroyde Primary School1.2 km 340 pupils, 444 places
- Cliffe Hill Community Primary School1.5 km 195 pupils, 236 places
- Woodhouse Primary School1.8 km 415 pupils, 420 places
- Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School1.9 km 183 pupils, 210 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Brighouse?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Brighouse is Brighouse Rail Station, 1.2 km away in a straight line.
- Brighouse Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmCycle
- Halifax Rail Station Railway station 4.5 kmCycle
- Deighton Rail Station Railway station 5.0 kmDrive
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Brighouse?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Brighouse, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Church Lane Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2025 · Phone 01484 714349 700 mWalk
- Rydings Hall Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01484 715324 700 mWalk
- Longroyde Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2025 · Phone 01484 721102 1.5 kmCycle
- Rastrick Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01484 710853 2.1 kmCycle
- The Northolme Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2026 · Phone 01422 205154 2.4 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Brighouse safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,149 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Brighouse over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 163 September 2025
- 175 October 2025
- 161 November 2025
- 147 December 2025
- 143 January 2026
- 193 February 2026
- 180 March 2026
- 181 April 2026
- 202 May 2026
- 207 June 2026
- 249 July 2026
- 148 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 66, drugs 62, possession of weapons 20, robbery 19, theft from the person 10, bicycle theft 8.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Brighouse?
- Councils
- Calderdale (1,010) and Bradford (8)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Calder Valley (1,008), Bradford South (8) and Halifax (2)
- Police force area
- West Yorkshire
- Region
- Yorkshire and The Humber
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Brighouse
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Brighouse is in Calderdale; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Calderdale about council tax Council tax, on new.calderdale.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Brighouse
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Brighouse postcodes
1,018 postcodes in use in Brighouse, by district:
Those districts are in the HD postcode area, HX postcode area and BD postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Brighouse
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Brighouse's £220,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Brighouse
- What is the postcode for Brighouse?
- Postcode districts BD12, HD6, HX3 and HX5, with 1,018 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Brighouse?
- A typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, from 479 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Brighouse?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Infant School, St Andrew's CofE (VA) Junior School and St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse; secondary schools at its postcodes include Brighouse High School, Rastrick High School and Lightcliffe Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Brighouse have a railway station?
- Yes: Brighouse station, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Brighouse?
- Ofcom reports on 981 of the 1,018 postcodes in Brighouse. At 864 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Brighouse at risk of flooding?
- 114 of the 1,018 postcodes in Brighouse 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 741 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Brighouse?
- 39 of the 1,018 postcodes now in use in Brighouse came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 36 of the 571 homes sold in Brighouse were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HD6 district, 7%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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