Harden

Harden is covered by postcode district BD16. It is in the Bradford council area, England.

Every postcode in Harden, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Harden, by flood risk Of the 68 postcodes in Harden that ONS places, 7 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at low risk at worst and 58 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 7 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Harden. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. BD16 1AF: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BG: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BH: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BJ: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BL: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BQ: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BT: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BU: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BW: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BX: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BY: not on the flood risk listBD16 1BZ: not on the flood risk listBD16 1DA: not on the flood risk listBD16 1DB: not on the flood risk listBD16 1DE: not on the flood risk listBD16 1DJ: not on the flood risk listBD16 1FH: not on the flood risk listBD16 1FL: not on the flood risk listBD16 1FN: not on the flood risk listBD16 1FP: not on the flood risk listBD16 1HN: not on the flood risk listBD16 1HT: not on the flood risk listBD16 1HU: not on the flood risk listBD16 1HY: not on the flood risk listBD16 1HZ: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JA: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JB: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JD: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JE: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JF: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JG: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JH: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JJ: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JL: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JN: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JP: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JQ: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JR: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JS: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JW: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JY: not on the flood risk listBD16 1JZ: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LA: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LB: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LD: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LE: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LF: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LG: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LJ: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LL: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LN: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LP: not on the flood risk listBD16 1LW: not on the flood risk listBD16 1QL: not on the flood risk listBD16 1QN: not on the flood risk listBD16 1RY: not on the flood risk listBD16 1UA: not on the flood risk listBD16 1UY: not on the flood risk listBD16 1HX: low flood risk at worstBD16 1JX: low flood risk at worstBD16 1LQ: low flood risk at worstBD16 1FJ: high flood riskBD16 1HP: high flood riskBD16 1HS: high flood riskBD16 1JT: high flood riskBD16 1TF: high flood riskBD16 1TG: high flood riskBD16 1TR: high flood risk Harden 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to BD16 1TR, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk7 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Harden, by flood risk Of the 68 postcodes in Harden that ONS places, 7 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at low risk at worst and 58 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 7 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Harden. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Harden 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to BD16 1TR, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk7 postcodes at high or medium risk
  • A home or business at high risk: 7
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 3
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 58
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 68 postcodes in Harden that ONS places, 7 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at low risk at worst and 58 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.8398, longitude -1.8709. 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

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

What is it like to live in Harden?

Homes sold for a typical £338,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 59 of the 68 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 46 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 10 of its 68 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Wilsden Medical Practice, 2.5 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Bingley, 2.4 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 Harden?

Homes in Harden sold for a typical £338,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 25 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £250,000 from 37 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

£338,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£250,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £435,000 10 sales
  • Semi-detached £282,500 5 sales
  • Terraced £257,500 10 sales

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

Across the whole BD16 district, Harden's main postcode district: a typical £229,975.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Harden: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Harden?

1 of the 68 postcodes now in use in Harden came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 37 homes sold in Harden were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BD16 district, Under 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

PeriodIn HardenAcross the BD16 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 25 (0%) 4 of 388 (1%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 37 (0%) 3 of 463 (Under 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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Harden?

Ofcom reports on 68 of the 68 postcodes in Harden. At 59 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit59 of 68
Postcodes where every home can get superfast63 of 68

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Harden at risk of flooding?

10 of the 68 postcodes in Harden 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 46 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 10 of 68 postcodes High: 43Medium: 3Low: 21

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 Harden?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Harden. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. 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.

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.UK

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Harden?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Harden is Bingley Rail Station, 2.4 km away in a straight line.

  • Bingley Rail Station Railway station 2.4 kmCycle
  • Crossflatts Rail Station Railway station 2.7 kmCycle
  • Keighley Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle

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 Harden?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Harden. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Harden safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 138 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Harden 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

  1. 16 September 2025
  2. 5 October 2025
  3. 9 November 2025
  4. 14 December 2025
  5. 12 January 2026
  6. 10 February 2026
  7. 17 March 2026
  8. 10 April 2026
  9. 11 May 2026
  10. 10 June 2026
  11. 15 July 2026
  12. 9 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences37 reports
Anti-social behaviour31 reports
Vehicle crime20 reports
Burglary18 reports
Public order10 reports
Criminal damage and arson8 reports
Other theft7 reports
Drugs4 reports

Also: other crime 2, shoplifting 1.

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 postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Harden?

Council
Bradford
Parliamentary constituency
Shipley
Police force area
West Yorkshire
Region
Yorkshire and The Humber
Country
England
MP
Anna Dixon (Labour)

All 68 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

Moving to Harden

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

Harden postcodes

68 postcodes in use in Harden, by district:

That district is in the BD postcode area.

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Places near Harden

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Harden's £338,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Quick answers about Harden

What is the postcode for Harden?
Postcode district BD16, with 68 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Harden in?
Bradford. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Harden?
Anna Dixon (Labour), for Shipley. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Harden?
A typical £338,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 25 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Harden?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Harden Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Parkside School, 2.1 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Harden have a railway station?
The nearest is Bingley station, 2.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Harden?
Ofcom reports on 68 of the 68 postcodes in Harden. At 59 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Harden at risk of flooding?
10 of the 68 postcodes in Harden 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 46 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 Harden?
1 of the 68 postcodes now in use in Harden came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 37 homes sold in Harden were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BD16 district, Under 1%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

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. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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