Shelf and Northowram

Shelf and Northowram is covered by postcode district HX3. It is in the Calderdale council area, England.

Typical price £250,000 Homes sold in Shelf and Northowram, last 12 months. ▲ 13.6% on the year before Gigabit broadband 167 of 221 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 5 of 222 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 4 4 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Shelf and Northowram, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Shelf and Northowram, by flood risk Of the 222 postcodes in Shelf and Northowram that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 217 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Shelf and Northowram. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. 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risk listHX3 7RB: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RD: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RE: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RF: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RG: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RH: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RJ: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RL: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RN: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RP: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RQ: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RR: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RS: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RU: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RW: not on the flood risk listHX3 7RZ: not on the flood risk listHX3 7SG: not on the flood risk listHX3 7SH: not on the flood risk listHX3 7SJ: not on the flood risk listHX3 7SL: not on the flood risk listHX3 7SN: not on the flood risk listHX3 7SP: not on the flood risk listHX3 7SQ: not on the flood risk listHX3 7TP: not on the flood risk listHX3 7TQ: not on the flood risk listHX3 7TR: not on the flood risk listHX3 7TZ: not on the flood risk listHX3 7UF: not on the flood risk listHX3 7UP: not on the flood risk listHX3 7US: not on the flood risk listHX3 7UW: not on the flood risk listHX3 7WA: not on the flood risk listHX3 7WB: not on the flood risk listHX3 7WE: not on the flood risk listHX3 7WF: not on the flood risk listHX3 7WG: not on the flood risk listHX3 7WH: not on the flood risk listHX3 7WJ: not on the flood risk listHX3 7WL: not on the flood risk listHX3 7WN: not on the flood risk listHX3 9XA: not on the flood risk listHX3 9XE: not on the flood risk listHX3 9XF: not on the flood risk listHX3 7PB: low flood risk at worstHX3 6XG: high flood riskHX3 6XL: high flood riskHX3 7PE: high flood riskHX3 7PF: high flood risk Shelf and Northowram Map of every postcode in Shelf and Northowram, by flood risk Of the 222 postcodes in Shelf and Northowram that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 217 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Shelf and Northowram. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A58 Shelf and Northowram
  • A home or business at high risk: 4
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 217

Of the 222 postcodes in Shelf and Northowram that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 217 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. 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 53.7457, longitude -1.8233. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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 postcodes at high risk

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

HX3 6XG1 at high riskHX3 6XL1 at high riskHX3 7PE1 at high riskHX3 7PF1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Shelf and Northowram?

Homes sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 13.6% on the 12 months before. At 167 of the 221 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 222 postcodes. It has 4 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Northolme Practice, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Halifax, 3.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

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 Shelf and Northowram?

Homes in Shelf and Northowram sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 128 sales, up 13.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£250,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£220,000
12 months to August 2026
£250,000

▲ up 13.6% on the 12 months before

Detached£450,000 34 sales
Semi-detached£267,500 44 sales
Terraced£175,000 47 sales
Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price

Across the whole HX3 district, Shelf and Northowram's main postcode district: a typical £198,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Shelf and Northowram: 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 Shelf and Northowram?

2 of the 222 postcodes now in use in Shelf and Northowram came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 159 homes sold in Shelf and Northowram were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HX3 district, 1%.

The newest postcodes

HX3 7PEsince March 2022HX3 7FAsince October 2021

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 Shelf and NorthowramAcross the HX3 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 128 (0%) 2 of 575 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 159 (0%) 8 of 721 (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 Shelf and Northowram?

Ofcom reports on 221 of the 222 postcodes in Shelf and Northowram. At 167 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit167 of 221
Postcodes where every home can get superfast215 of 221

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.

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

Is Shelf and Northowram at risk of flooding?

5 of the 222 postcodes in Shelf and Northowram 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 4 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 5 of 222 postcodes High: 4Low: 3

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 Shelf and Northowram?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Shelf and Northowram. 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.

Primary

Secondary

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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 Shelf and Northowram?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Shelf and Northowram is Halifax Rail Station, 3.4 km away in a straight line.

  • Halifax Rail Station Railway station 3.4 kmCycle
  • Low Moor Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle
  • Brighouse Rail Station Railway station 6.0 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 Shelf and Northowram?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Shelf and Northowram. 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

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Shelf and Northowram safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 362 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Shelf and Northowram 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. 29 September 2025
  2. 27 October 2025
  3. 43 November 2025
  4. 40 December 2025
  5. 24 January 2026
  6. 15 February 2026
  7. 33 March 2026
  8. 22 April 2026
  9. 37 May 2026
  10. 30 June 2026
  11. 28 July 2026
  12. 34 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences142 reports
Vehicle crime48 reports
Burglary34 reports
Anti-social behaviour30 reports
Criminal damage and arson28 reports
Other theft26 reports
Public order16 reports
Other crime15 reports

Also: shoplifting 9, drugs 4, robbery 4, bicycle theft 3, possession of weapons 3.

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.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Shelf and Northowram?

Council
Calderdale
Parliamentary constituencies
Halifax (219) and Calder Valley (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

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Shelf and Northowram postcodes

222 postcodes in use in Shelf and Northowram, by district:

HX3 postcode district,222 postcodes

That district is in the HX postcode area.

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Places near Shelf and Northowram

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Shelf and Northowram's £250,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Queensbury2.9 km, £202,000Halifax4.3 km, £160,000Brighouse4.8 km, £220,000Scholes, near Cleckheaton5.2 km, £187,500Oakenshaw5.3 km, £183,500Thornton, Bradford5.4 km, £193,000Bradford6.6 km, £165,000Elland6.9 km, £195,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Shelf and Northowram

What is it like to live in Shelf and Northowram?
Homes sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 13.6% on the 12 months before. At 167 of the 221 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 222 postcodes. It has 4 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Northolme Practice, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Halifax, 3.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. 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 Shelf and Northowram?
Shelf and Northowram is covered by postcode district HX3, across 222 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Shelf and Northowram in?
Shelf and Northowram is in the Calderdale council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Shelf and Northowram?
Homes in Shelf and Northowram sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 128 sales, up 13.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Shelf and Northowram?
In Shelf and Northowram, primary schools at its postcodes include Shelf Junior and Infant School, Northowram Primary School and St Michael and All Angels CofE Primary & Pre School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Hipperholme Grammar School, 2.0 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Shelf and Northowram have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Shelf and Northowram is Halifax, 3.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Shelf and Northowram?
Ofcom reports on 221 of the 222 postcodes in Shelf and Northowram. At 167 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Shelf and Northowram at risk of flooding?
5 of the 222 postcodes in Shelf and Northowram 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 4 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 Shelf and Northowram?
2 of the 222 postcodes now in use in Shelf and Northowram came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 159 homes sold in Shelf and Northowram were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HX3 district, 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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