Schools
82 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 10 secondary schools. Millcourt School is the nearest published school at 667 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HX3 7RT
Northowram & Shelf · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Northowram & Shelf
- Local authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX3 7RT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 7
- Latitude
- 53.757241
- Longitude
- -1.820994
- British National Grid easting
- 411,900
- British National Grid northing
- 429,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Calderdale · E08000033
- Electoral ward
- Northowram & Shelf · E05016491
- Parish or community
- E43000293
- Westminster constituency
- Halifax · E14001262
- Output area
- E00055123
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 003E · E01010936
- Middle layer super output area
- Calderdale 003 · E02002246
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
- 82
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 10
- 667 m
Millcourt School
Other independent special school
- 751 m
Shelf Junior and Infant School
Community school
- 896 m
St Michael and All Angels CofE Primary & Pre School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,258
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 576
- Criminal damage and arson 137
- Anti social behaviour 99
- Vehicle crime 93
- Public order 82
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HX3 7 residents
- 9,637
Age bands in HX3 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.2%
1,440 residents
859 residents
2,008 residents
2,944 residents
2,312 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
16
within 5 km straight-line
HOLLYNS HEALTH & WELLBEING
4 GLENHOLME PARK, CLAYTON, BRADFORD, BD14 6NF
ODS code B83045
2.5 km
PARKLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
30 BUTTERSHAW LANE, BRADFORD, BD6 2DD
ODS code B83010
2.7 km
WIBSEY & QUEENSBURY MED P
FAIR ROAD, BRADFORD, BD6 1TD
ODS code B83028
2.9 km
LOW MOOR SURGERY
29 THE PLANTATIONS, BRADFORD, BD12 0TH
ODS code B83029
3.4 km
THE NORTHOLME PRACTICE
KOS CLINIC, 4 ROYDLANDS STREET, HIPPERHOLME, HALIFAX, HX3 8AF
ODS code B84008
3.6 km
THE RIDGE MEDICAL PRACT.
COUSEN ROAD, GREAT HORTON, BRADFORD, BD7 3JX
ODS code B83055
3.8 km
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
60A KEIGHLEY ROAD, OVENDEN, HALIFAX, HX2 8AL
ODS code B84613
4.3 km
CARITAS GROUP PRACTICE
WOODSIDE SURGERY, WOODSIDE ROAD, BOOTHTOWN, HALIFAX, HX3 6EL
ODS code B84618
4.3 km
GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 HORTON GRANGE ROAD, BRADFORD, BD7 3AH
ODS code B83034
4.4 km
HORTON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
HORTON PARK CENTRE, 99 HORTON PARK AVENUE, BRADFORD, BD7 3EG
ODS code B83035
4.4 km
DR GILKAR
392 LITTLE HORTON LANE, BRADFORD, BD5 0NX
ODS code B83653
4.6 km
DR I M RAJA & PARTNER
392 LITTLE HORTON LANE, BRADFORD, BD5 0NX
ODS code B83025
4.6 km
PARK GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
141 WOODHEAD ROAD, BRADFORD, BD7 2BL
ODS code B83659
4.7 km
BRADFORD STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE
LAISTERIDGE LANE, BRADFORD, BD5 0HR
ODS code B83051
4.7 km
KEIGHLEY ROAD SURGERY
KEIGHLEY ROAD, ILLINGWORTH, HALIFAX, HX2 9LL
ODS code B84010
4.8 km
LISTER LANE SURGERY
30 LISTER LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 5AX
ODS code B84612
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Wade House Rd Wade House Ave
BCT · Shelf
- 0.4 miles
Wade House Rd Wade House Ave
BCT · Shelf
- 0.4 miles
Wade House Rd Brow Lane
BCT · Shelf
- 0.4 miles
Wade House Rd Brow Lane
BCT · Shelf
- 0.4 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Shelf
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 003E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,401 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,258 published events cover 12 months, averaging 104.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 576 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.