Property market
The five-year median is £198,500 from 2 recorded sales in HX2 8AJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Calderdale is £191,540 in June 2026, up 9.4% year on year.
HX2 8AJ
Ovenden · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX2 8AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2009
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX2
- Postcode sector
- HX2 8
- Latitude
- 53.745446
- Longitude
- -1.883954
- British National Grid easting
- 407,751
- British National Grid northing
- 427,679
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Calderdale · E08000033
- Electoral ward
- Ovenden · E05016492
- Parish or community
- E43000293
- Westminster constituency
- Halifax · E14001262
- Output area
- E00055141
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 005D · E01010942
- Middle layer super output area
- Calderdale 005 · E02002248
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
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 17, Holly Park Way, Halifax, HX2 8AJ | 30 January 2026 | £225,000 |
| 15, Holly Park Way, Halifax, HX2 8AJ | 12 August 2022 | £172,000 |
| 19, Holly Park Way, Halifax, HX2 8AJ | 9 June 2016 | £135,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 5
- 45 m
Moorside Community Primary School
Community school
- 706 m
Dean Field Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 716 m
St Malachy's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,057
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,418
- Criminal damage and arson 253
- Anti social behaviour 244
- Public order 231
- Other theft 211
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- HX2 8 residents
- 8,276
4 female, 9 male
Age bands in HX2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 24%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.9%
1,835 residents
931 residents
1,984 residents
1,902 residents
986 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HX2 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 20%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
9
within 5 km straight-line
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
60A KEIGHLEY ROAD, OVENDEN, HALIFAX, HX2 8AL
ODS code B84613
305 m
KEIGHLEY ROAD SURGERY
KEIGHLEY ROAD, ILLINGWORTH, HALIFAX, HX2 9LL
ODS code B84010
1.2 km
PLANE TREES GROUP PRACTICE
51 SANDBEDS ROAD, HALIFAX, HX2 0QL
ODS code B84013
1.8 km
CARITAS GROUP PRACTICE
WOODSIDE SURGERY, WOODSIDE ROAD, BOOTHTOWN, HALIFAX, HX3 6EL
ODS code B84618
2.0 km
SPRING HALL GROUP PRACTICE
173C SPRING HALL LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 4JG
ODS code B84012
2.8 km
LISTER LANE SURGERY
30 LISTER LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 5AX
ODS code B84612
2.8 km
THE BOULEVARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
116 SAVILE PARK ROAD, HALIFAX, HX1 2ES
ODS code B84019
3.3 km
KING CROSS PRACTICE
KING CROSS SURGERY, 199 KING CROSS ROAD, KING CROSS, HALIFAX, HX1 3LW
ODS code B84021
3.4 km
STATION ROAD SURGERY
STATION ROAD, SOWERBY BRIDGE, HX6 3AB
ODS code B84001
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Moorside Club
BCT · Illingworth
- 0.1 miles
Moorside School
BCT · Ovenden
- 0.1 miles
Beechwood Road Library
BCT · Ovenden
- 0.1 miles
Moorside School
BCT · Ovenden
- 0.1 miles
Beechwood Road
BCT · Illingworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 005D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,342 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
55 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 5 secondary schools. Moorside Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 45 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,057 published events cover 12 months, averaging 254.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,418 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.