Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 6 secondary schools. Beech Hill School is the nearest published school at 333 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HX3 5AJ
Halifax Town · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Halifax Town
- Local authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX3 5AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 5
- Latitude
- 53.729204
- Longitude
- -1.866538
- British National Grid easting
- 408,903
- British National Grid northing
- 425,874
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Calderdale · E08000033
- Electoral ward
- Halifax Town · E05016486
- Parish or community
- E43000293
- Westminster constituency
- Halifax · E14001262
- Output area
- E00055262
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 008F · E01032923
- Middle layer super output area
- Calderdale 008 · E02002251
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 HX3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 6
- 333 m
Beech Hill School
Academy converter
- 691 m
Trinity Academy Akroydon
Academy converter
- 703 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,931
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,902
- Public order 690
- Shoplifting 650
- Criminal damage and arson 499
- Anti social behaviour 433
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HX3 5 residents
- 7,469
Age bands in HX3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.9%
1,796 residents
975 residents
2,157 residents
2,070 residents
1,223 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
11
within 5 km
CARITAS GROUP PRACTICE
WOODSIDE SURGERY, WOODSIDE ROAD, BOOTHTOWN, HALIFAX, HX3 6EL
ODS code B84618
116 m
LISTER LANE SURGERY
30 LISTER LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 5AX
ODS code B84612
740 m
THE BOULEVARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
116 SAVILE PARK ROAD, HALIFAX, HX1 2ES
ODS code B84019
1.3 km
KING CROSS PRACTICE
KING CROSS SURGERY, 199 KING CROSS ROAD, KING CROSS, HALIFAX, HX1 3LW
ODS code B84021
1.8 km
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
60A KEIGHLEY ROAD, OVENDEN, HALIFAX, HX2 8AL
ODS code B84613
1.8 km
PLANE TREES GROUP PRACTICE
51 SANDBEDS ROAD, HALIFAX, HX2 0QL
ODS code B84013
1.8 km
SPRING HALL GROUP PRACTICE
173C SPRING HALL LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 4JG
ODS code B84012
2.0 km
KEIGHLEY ROAD SURGERY
KEIGHLEY ROAD, ILLINGWORTH, HALIFAX, HX2 9LL
ODS code B84010
3.3 km
STATION ROAD SURGERY
STATION ROAD, SOWERBY BRIDGE, HX6 3AB
ODS code B84001
3.8 km
THE NORTHOLME PRACTICE
KOS CLINIC, 4 ROYDLANDS STREET, HIPPERHOLME, HALIFAX, HX3 8AF
ODS code B84008
3.8 km
STAINLAND ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
70 STAINLAND ROAD, GREETLAND, HALIFAX, HX4 8BD
ODS code B84009
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lee Bridge
BCT · Dean Clough
- 0.1 miles
Lee Bridge
BCT · Dean Clough
- 0.1 miles
Dean Clough
BCT · Dean Clough
- 0.2 miles
All Souls Road
BCT · Boothtown
- 0.2 miles
Shroggs Road Bottom
BCT · Dean Clough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 008F, 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
3,385 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
6,931 published events cover 12 months, averaging 577.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,902 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.