Schools
61 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 6 secondary schools. Lee Mount Academy is the nearest published school at 681 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HX3 5RA
Ovenden · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX3 5RA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 5
- Latitude
- 53.737983
- Longitude
- -1.881594
- British National Grid easting
- 407,908
- British National Grid northing
- 426,849
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
- E00055144
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 006C · E01010943
- Middle layer super output area
- Calderdale 006 · E02002249
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Grove Edge, Halifax, HX3 5RA | 5 August 2002 | £53,684 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 61
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 6
- 681 m
Lee Mount Academy
Academy converter
- 801 m
Moorside Community Primary School
Community school
- 903 m
Dean Field Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,481
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,957
- Shoplifting 453
- Public order 346
- Criminal damage and arson 340
- Anti social behaviour 330
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 63
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- HX3 5 residents
- 7,469
37 female, 26 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 0.8% 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.
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
10
within 5 km straight-line
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
60A KEIGHLEY ROAD, OVENDEN, HALIFAX, HX2 8AL
ODS code B84613
588 m
PLANE TREES GROUP PRACTICE
51 SANDBEDS ROAD, HALIFAX, HX2 0QL
ODS code B84013
1.2 km
CARITAS GROUP PRACTICE
WOODSIDE SURGERY, WOODSIDE ROAD, BOOTHTOWN, HALIFAX, HX3 6EL
ODS code B84618
1.3 km
KEIGHLEY ROAD SURGERY
KEIGHLEY ROAD, ILLINGWORTH, HALIFAX, HX2 9LL
ODS code B84010
2.0 km
LISTER LANE SURGERY
30 LISTER LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 5AX
ODS code B84612
2.0 km
SPRING HALL GROUP PRACTICE
173C SPRING HALL LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 4JG
ODS code B84012
2.0 km
THE BOULEVARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
116 SAVILE PARK ROAD, HALIFAX, HX1 2ES
ODS code B84019
2.5 km
KING CROSS PRACTICE
KING CROSS SURGERY, 199 KING CROSS ROAD, KING CROSS, HALIFAX, HX1 3LW
ODS code B84021
2.5 km
STATION ROAD SURGERY
STATION ROAD, SOWERBY BRIDGE, HX6 3AB
ODS code B84001
3.9 km
THE NORTHOLME PRACTICE
KOS CLINIC, 4 ROYDLANDS STREET, HIPPERHOLME, HALIFAX, HX3 8AF
ODS code B84008
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Grove Avenue
BCT · Ovenden
- 0.1 miles
Grove Avenue
BCT · Ovenden
- 0.1 miles
Ovenden Green
BCT · Lee Mount
- 0.1 miles
Ovenden Green
BCT · Lee Mount
- 0.2 miles
Friendly Fold Road
BCT · Lee Mount
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 006C, 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
947 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 5
- 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
4,481 published events cover 12 months, averaging 373.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,957 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.