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, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 39
- In use before 2020: 979
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 1,018 postcodes in Brighouse that ONS places, 39 are new since 2020 and 979 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. 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
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
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 8 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. HD6 3FT, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Brighouse?
Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. 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 at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 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.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
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, no change on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- 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. 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
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.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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, 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
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.
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
- The William Henry Smith School and Sixth Form1.9 km 83 pupils, 87 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
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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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.
Questions about Brighouse
- What is it like to live in Brighouse?
- Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. 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 at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 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. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Brighouse?
- Brighouse is covered by postcode districts BD12, HD6, HX3 and HX5, across 1,018 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Brighouse?
- Homes in Brighouse sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 479 sales, no change on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Brighouse?
- 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, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Does Brighouse have a railway station?
- Yes: Brighouse is 1.2 km from the centre point of the postcodes in Brighouse, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 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. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 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. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out 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 Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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