Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 3 secondary schools. Luddendenfoot Academy is the nearest published school at 423 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HX2 6EJ
Sowerby Bridge · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sowerby Bridge
- Local authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax
- Postcode district
- HX2
- Postcode sector
- HX2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX2 6EJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX2
- Postcode sector
- HX2 6
- Latitude
- 53.712419
- Longitude
- -1.939360
- British National Grid easting
- 404,100
- British National Grid northing
- 424,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Calderdale · E08000033
- Electoral ward
- Sowerby Bridge · E05016497
- Parish or community
- E43000293
- Westminster constituency
- Halifax · E14001262
- Output area
- E00055040
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 020A · E01010922
- Middle layer super output area
- Calderdale 020 · E02002263
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore HX2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 3
- 423 m
Luddendenfoot Academy
Academy converter
- 961 m
Trinity Academy St Peter's
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Ryburn Valley High School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 773
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 339
- Anti social behaviour 137
- Public order 56
- Criminal damage and arson 50
- Vehicle crime 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HX2 6 residents
- 4,541
Age bands in HX2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 34.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
759 residents
463 residents
1,013 residents
1,669 residents
931 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
STATION ROAD SURGERY
STATION ROAD, SOWERBY BRIDGE, HX6 3AB
ODS code B84001
2.0 km
SPRING HALL GROUP PRACTICE
173C SPRING HALL LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 4JG
ODS code B84012
3.2 km
PLANE TREES GROUP PRACTICE
51 SANDBEDS ROAD, HALIFAX, HX2 0QL
ODS code B84013
3.6 km
KING CROSS PRACTICE
KING CROSS SURGERY, 199 KING CROSS ROAD, KING CROSS, HALIFAX, HX1 3LW
ODS code B84021
3.9 km
BRIG ROYD SURGERY
HIRSTWOOD, RIPPONDEN, SOWERBY BRIDGE, HX6 4BN
ODS code B84007
4.1 km
THE BOULEVARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
116 SAVILE PARK ROAD, HALIFAX, HX1 2ES
ODS code B84019
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Rose Grove Lane
BCT · Luddenden Foot
- 0.2 miles
Rose Grove Lane
BCT · Luddenden Foot
- 0.2 miles
Luddendenfoot Academy
BCT · Luddenden Foot
- 0.2 miles
Luddendenfoot Academy
BCT · Luddenden Foot
- 0.3 miles
Boulderclough
BCT · Boulderclough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 020A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
16,968 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
773 published events cover 12 months, averaging 64.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 339 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.