Halifax
Halifax is covered by postcode districts HX1, HX2, HX3, HX4, HX5 and HX6. It is mostly in the Calderdale council area: 2,796 of its 2,799 postcodes. The others are in Bradford.
Every postcode in Halifax, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 84
- In use before 2020: 2,715
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 2,799 postcodes in Halifax that ONS places, 84 are new since 2020 and 2,715 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 53.7253, longitude -1.8788. 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
What is it like to live in Halifax?
Homes sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. At 2,186 of the 2,666 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 508 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 66 of its 2,799 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Halifax, 1.7 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 Halifax?
Homes in Halifax sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 943 sales, no change on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £335,000 77 sales
- Semi-detached £197,750 276 sales
- Terraced £139,475 512 sales
- Flat or maisonette £120,017 78 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole HX1 district, Halifax's main postcode district: a typical £126,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Halifax: 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 Halifax?
84 of the 2,799 postcodes now in use in Halifax came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 10 of the 1,185 homes sold in Halifax were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HX1 district, 1%.
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 Halifax | Across the HX1 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 2 of 943 (Under 1%) | 0 of 181 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 10 of 1,185 (Under 1%) | 2 of 196 (1%) |
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 Halifax?
Ofcom reports on 2,666 of the 2,799 postcodes in Halifax. At 2,186 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 Halifax at risk of flooding?
66 of the 2,799 postcodes in Halifax 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 508 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 Halifax?
The open schools at the postcodes in Halifax (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 Augustine's CofE School50 m 156 pupils, 186 places
- Beacon Lights Schools450 m 209 pupils, 330 places
- Mount Pellon Primary Academy450 m 303 pupils, 367 places
- Beech Hill School650 m 571 pupils, 682 places
- Parkinson Lane Community Primary School750 m 535 pupils, 600 places
- Lee Mount Academy850 m 274 pupils, 390 places
- The Halifax Academy1.0 km 1,461 pupils, 1,320 places
- St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy1.1 km 272 pupils, 315 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 Halifax?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Halifax is Halifax Rail Station, 1.7 km away in a straight line.
- Halifax Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
- Sowerby Bridge Rail Station Railway station 2.7 kmCycle
- Mytholmroyd Rail Station Railway station 6.8 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 Halifax?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Halifax, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Lister Lane Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01422 353956 900 mWalk
- Caritas Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01422 557711 950 mWalk
- Spring Hall Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2024 · Phone 01422 349501 1.0 kmWalk
- King Cross Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2024 · Phone 01422 230730 1.1 kmWalk
- The Boulevard Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01422 365533 1.1 kmWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Halifax safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 8,704 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Halifax 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
- 753 September 2025
- 724 October 2025
- 683 November 2025
- 682 December 2025
- 638 January 2026
- 646 February 2026
- 684 March 2026
- 762 April 2026
- 780 May 2026
- 775 June 2026
- 814 July 2026
- 763 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 289, other crime 280, robbery 137, possession of weapons 80, theft from the person 70, bicycle theft 25.
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 Halifax?
- Councils
- Calderdale (2,796) and Bradford (3)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Halifax (2,779), Calder Valley (17) and Bradford South (3)
- 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 Halifax
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Halifax 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 Halifax
- 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
Halifax postcodes
2,799 postcodes in use in Halifax, by district:
Those districts are all in the HX postcode area.
Check a Halifax postcode
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 Halifax
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Halifax's £160,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Halifax
- What is it like to live in Halifax?
- Homes sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. At 2,186 of the 2,666 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 508 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 66 of its 2,799 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Halifax, 1.7 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 Halifax?
- Halifax is covered by postcode districts HX1, HX2, HX3, HX4, HX5 and HX6, across 2,799 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Halifax?
- Homes in Halifax sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 943 sales, no change on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Halifax?
- In Halifax, primary schools at its postcodes include St Augustine's CofE School, Beacon Lights Schools and Mount Pellon Primary Academy; secondary schools at its postcodes include Beacon Lights Schools, The Halifax Academy and The Crossley Heath School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Halifax have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Halifax is Halifax, 1.7 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Halifax?
- Ofcom reports on 2,666 of the 2,799 postcodes in Halifax. At 2,186 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Halifax at risk of flooding?
- 66 of the 2,799 postcodes in Halifax 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 508 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 Halifax?
- 84 of the 2,799 postcodes now in use in Halifax came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 10 of the 1,185 homes sold in Halifax were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HX1 district, 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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