Property market
The five-year median is £264,000 from 2 recorded sales in HX3 8AU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Calderdale is £191,540 in June 2026, up 9.4% year on year.
HX3 8AU
Hipperholme & Lightcliffe · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Halifax
- Local authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX3 8AU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 8
- Latitude
- 53.724526
- Longitude
- -1.804250
- British National Grid easting
- 413,014
- British National Grid northing
- 425,363
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Calderdale · E08000033
- Electoral ward
- Hipperholme & Lightcliffe · E05016488
- Parish or community
- E43000293
- Westminster constituency
- Calder Valley · E14001147
- Output area
- E00054965
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 011B · E01010906
- Middle layer super output area
- Calderdale 011 · E02002254
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
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 71, Wakefield Road, Hipperholme, Halifax, HX3 8AU | 15 August 2025 | £168,000 |
| 72a, Wakefield Road, Hipperholme, Halifax, HX3 8AU | 5 May 2023 | £360,000 |
| 70, Wakefield Road, Hipperholme, Halifax, HX3 8AU | 23 October 2020 | £695,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 60
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 5
- 347 m
Lightcliffe C of E Primary School
Academy converter
- 738 m
Hipperholme Grammar School
Other independent school
- 1.0 km
Lightcliffe Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 625
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 270
- Vehicle crime 64
- Criminal damage and arson 58
- Anti social behaviour 53
- Other theft 50
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 40
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- HX3 8 residents
- 7,854
19 female, 21 male
Age bands in HX3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.2%
1,369 residents
760 residents
1,820 residents
2,316 residents
1,686 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HX3 8 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
- 0%
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
11
within 5 km
THE NORTHOLME PRACTICE
KOS CLINIC, 4 ROYDLANDS STREET, HIPPERHOLME, HALIFAX, HX3 8AF
ODS code B84008
343 m
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
24 CHURCH LANE, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 1AT
ODS code B84011
2.8 km
RYDINGS HALL SURGERY
RYDINGS HALL, CHURCH LANE, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 1AT
ODS code B84003
2.8 km
LONGROYDE SURGERY
38 CASTLE AVENUE, RASTRICK, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 3HT
ODS code B84623
3.5 km
LOW MOOR SURGERY
29 THE PLANTATIONS, BRADFORD, BD12 0TH
ODS code B83029
4.0 km
LISTER LANE SURGERY
30 LISTER LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 5AX
ODS code B84612
4.0 km
RASTRICK HEALTH CENTRE
CHAPEL CROFT, RASTRICK, BRIGHOUSE, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 3NA
ODS code B84014
4.1 km
CARITAS GROUP PRACTICE
WOODSIDE SURGERY, WOODSIDE ROAD, BOOTHTOWN, HALIFAX, HX3 6EL
ODS code B84618
4.2 km
THE BOULEVARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
116 SAVILE PARK ROAD, HALIFAX, HX1 2ES
ODS code B84019
4.3 km
PARKLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
30 BUTTERSHAW LANE, BRADFORD, BD6 2DD
ODS code B83010
4.3 km
BANKFIELD SURGERY
15 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, ELLAND, HX5 9BA
ODS code B84016
4.7 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
The Stray Park
BCT · Lightcliffe
- 0.1 miles
The Stray Park
BCT · Lightcliffe
- 0.1 miles
Westfield
BCT · Hipperholme
- 0.1 miles
Westfield
BCT · Hipperholme
- 0.2 miles
The Drive
BCT · Hipperholme
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 011B, 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
30,253 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- 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
Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 5 secondary schools. Lightcliffe C of E Primary School is the nearest published school at 347 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
625 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 270 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.