Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 4 secondary schools. Abbey Park Academy is the nearest published school at 826 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HX2 8UY
Illingworth & Mixenden · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax
- Postcode district
- HX2
- Postcode sector
- HX2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX2 8UY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX2
- Postcode sector
- HX2 8
- Latitude
- 53.758238
- Longitude
- -1.907444
- British National Grid easting
- 406,200
- British National Grid northing
- 429,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Calderdale · E08000033
- Electoral ward
- Illingworth & Mixenden · E05016489
- Parish or community
- E43000293
- Westminster constituency
- Halifax · E14001262
- Output area
- E00055097
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 002C · E01010925
- Middle layer super output area
- Calderdale 002 · E02002245
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
- 39
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 4
- 826 m
Abbey Park Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 996 m
Ash Green Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Trinity Academy Whitehill
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,809
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 785
- Criminal damage and arson 179
- Anti social behaviour 166
- Public order 145
- Shoplifting 128
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HX2 8 residents
- 8,276
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
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
KEIGHLEY ROAD SURGERY
KEIGHLEY ROAD, ILLINGWORTH, HALIFAX, HX2 9LL
ODS code B84010
997 m
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
60A KEIGHLEY ROAD, OVENDEN, HALIFAX, HX2 8AL
ODS code B84613
2.4 km
PLANE TREES GROUP PRACTICE
51 SANDBEDS ROAD, HALIFAX, HX2 0QL
ODS code B84013
3.2 km
CARITAS GROUP PRACTICE
WOODSIDE SURGERY, WOODSIDE ROAD, BOOTHTOWN, HALIFAX, HX3 6EL
ODS code B84618
4.1 km
SPRING HALL GROUP PRACTICE
173C SPRING HALL LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 4JG
ODS code B84012
4.2 km
LISTER LANE SURGERY
30 LISTER LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 5AX
ODS code B84612
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Clough Lane Hays Ln
BCT · Mixenden
- 0.1 miles
Clough Lane Hays Ln
BCT · Mixenden
- 0.2 miles
Clough Lane Reservoir
BCT · Mixenden
- 0.3 miles
Mixenden Road Top
BCT · Mixenden
- 0.3 miles
Mixenden Road Top
BCT · Mixenden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 002C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,992 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,809 published events cover 12 months, averaging 150.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 785 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.