Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 5 secondary schools. Trinity Academy Halifax is the nearest published school at 343 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HX2 9AY
Ovenden · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX2 9AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2010
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX2
- Postcode sector
- HX2 9
- Latitude
- 53.750183
- Longitude
- -1.875419
- British National Grid easting
- 408,313
- British National Grid northing
- 428,207
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
- E00055004
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 001D · E01010915
- Middle layer super output area
- Calderdale 001 · E02002244
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hiley Eng Co Ltd, Station Road, Halifax, HX2 9AY | 11 February 2015 | £780,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 5
- 343 m
Trinity Academy Halifax
Academy sponsor led
- 780 m
The North Halifax Grammar School
Academy converter
- 802 m
Moorside Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,391
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,079
- Criminal damage and arson 195
- Shoplifting 187
- Anti social behaviour 186
- Public order 182
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HX2 9 residents
- 8,389
Age bands in HX2 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
1,472 residents
847 residents
1,878 residents
2,512 residents
1,833 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.
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
- 100%
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
8
within 5 km straight-line
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
60A KEIGHLEY ROAD, OVENDEN, HALIFAX, HX2 8AL
ODS code B84613
859 m
KEIGHLEY ROAD SURGERY
KEIGHLEY ROAD, ILLINGWORTH, HALIFAX, HX2 9LL
ODS code B84010
1.3 km
CARITAS GROUP PRACTICE
WOODSIDE SURGERY, WOODSIDE ROAD, BOOTHTOWN, HALIFAX, HX3 6EL
ODS code B84618
2.3 km
PLANE TREES GROUP PRACTICE
51 SANDBEDS ROAD, HALIFAX, HX2 0QL
ODS code B84013
2.5 km
LISTER LANE SURGERY
30 LISTER LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 5AX
ODS code B84612
3.1 km
SPRING HALL GROUP PRACTICE
173C SPRING HALL LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 4JG
ODS code B84012
3.4 km
THE BOULEVARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
116 SAVILE PARK ROAD, HALIFAX, HX1 2ES
ODS code B84019
3.7 km
KING CROSS PRACTICE
KING CROSS SURGERY, 199 KING CROSS ROAD, KING CROSS, HALIFAX, HX1 3LW
ODS code B84021
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Shay Lane Beechwood Rd
BCT · Holmfield
- 0.1 miles
Beechwood Rd Kingdom Hall
BCT · Holmfield
- 0.1 miles
Beechwood Rd Kingdom Hall
BCT · Holmfield
- 0.1 miles
Shay Lane Beechwood Rd
BCT · Holmfield
- 0.1 miles
Beechwood Rd Shay Ln
BCT · Holmfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 001D, 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
17,169 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
2,391 published events cover 12 months, averaging 199.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,079 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.