Schools
62 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 7 secondary schools. Lee Mount Academy is the nearest published school at 707 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HX3 5FG
Ovenden · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX3 5FG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2018
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 5
- Latitude
- 53.735328
- Longitude
- -1.886938
- British National Grid easting
- 407,556
- British National Grid northing
- 426,553
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
- E00055163
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 005B · E01010939
- 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
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Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Dona Fold, Halifax, HX3 5FG | 8 November 2019 | £322,000 |
| 1, Dona Fold, Halifax, HX3 5FG | 25 October 2019 | £244,000 |
| 2, Dona Fold, Halifax, HX3 5FG | 24 May 2019 | £241,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 62
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 7
- 707 m
Lee Mount Academy
Academy converter
- 872 m
Christ Church Pellon CofE VC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 876 m
Dean Field Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,711
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,203
- Criminal damage and arson 386
- Public order 360
- Anti social behaviour 338
- Shoplifting 327
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- HX3 5 residents
- 7,469
8 female, 8 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HX3 5 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.
GP practices
9
within 5 km straight-line
PLANE TREES GROUP PRACTICE
51 SANDBEDS ROAD, HALIFAX, HX2 0QL
ODS code B84013
734 m
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
60A KEIGHLEY ROAD, OVENDEN, HALIFAX, HX2 8AL
ODS code B84613
961 m
CARITAS GROUP PRACTICE
WOODSIDE SURGERY, WOODSIDE ROAD, BOOTHTOWN, HALIFAX, HX3 6EL
ODS code B84618
1.4 km
SPRING HALL GROUP PRACTICE
173C SPRING HALL LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 4JG
ODS code B84012
1.6 km
LISTER LANE SURGERY
30 LISTER LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 5AX
ODS code B84612
2.0 km
KEIGHLEY ROAD SURGERY
KEIGHLEY ROAD, ILLINGWORTH, HALIFAX, HX2 9LL
ODS code B84010
2.2 km
KING CROSS PRACTICE
KING CROSS SURGERY, 199 KING CROSS ROAD, KING CROSS, HALIFAX, HX1 3LW
ODS code B84021
2.3 km
THE BOULEVARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
116 SAVILE PARK ROAD, HALIFAX, HX1 2ES
ODS code B84019
2.3 km
STATION ROAD SURGERY
STATION ROAD, SOWERBY BRIDGE, HX6 3AB
ODS code B84001
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
City Lane Top
BCT · Wheatley
- 0.0 miles
City Lane Top
BCT · Wheatley
- 0.1 miles
City Lane Bottom
BCT · Wheatley
- 0.1 miles
City Lane Bottom
BCT · Wheatley
- 0.1 miles
Ramsden Street
BCT · Lee Mount
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 005B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,769 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
Recorded crime
4,711 published events cover 12 months, averaging 392.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,203 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.