Schools
66 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 7 secondary schools. Appleton Academy is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HX3 8QT
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 8QT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 8
- Latitude
- 53.739112
- Longitude
- -1.792569
- British National Grid easting
- 413,780
- British National Grid northing
- 426,988
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
- E00054969
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 015C · E01010905
- Middle layer super output area
- Calderdale 015 · E02002258
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Mayfield, Norwood Green, Halifax, HX3 8QT | 31 August 2007 | £249,000 |
| 2, Mayfield, Norwood Green, Halifax, HX3 8QT | 11 July 2003 | £150,000 |
| 6, Mayfield, Norwood Green, Halifax, HX3 8QT | 18 December 1998 | £77,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 66
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 7
- 1.4 km
Appleton Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.6 km
Lightcliffe C of E Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Shirley Manor Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 714
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 379
- Vehicle crime 72
- Criminal damage and arson 48
- Burglary 41
- Anti social behaviour 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- HX3 8 residents
- 7,854
6 female, 8 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 0.2% 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
- 33.3%
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
8
within 5 km straight-line
THE NORTHOLME PRACTICE
KOS CLINIC, 4 ROYDLANDS STREET, HIPPERHOLME, HALIFAX, HX3 8AF
ODS code B84008
1.8 km
LOW MOOR SURGERY
29 THE PLANTATIONS, BRADFORD, BD12 0TH
ODS code B83029
2.2 km
PARKLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
30 BUTTERSHAW LANE, BRADFORD, BD6 2DD
ODS code B83010
2.6 km
WIBSEY & QUEENSBURY MED P
FAIR ROAD, BRADFORD, BD6 1TD
ODS code B83028
3.2 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
24 CHURCH LANE, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 1AT
ODS code B84011
4.1 km
RYDINGS HALL SURGERY
RYDINGS HALL, CHURCH LANE, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 1AT
ODS code B84003
4.1 km
HOLLYNS HEALTH & WELLBEING
4 GLENHOLME PARK, CLAYTON, BRADFORD, BD14 6NF
ODS code B83045
4.7 km
THE RIDGE MEDICAL PRACT.
COUSEN ROAD, GREAT HORTON, BRADFORD, BD7 3JX
ODS code B83055
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Norwood Green Terminus
BCT · Norwood Green
- 0.1 miles
Norwood Green Terminus
BCT · Norwood Green
- 0.2 miles
Village Street
BCT · Norwood Green
- 0.2 miles
Village Street
BCT · Norwood Green
- 0.3 miles
Norwood Green War Memorial
BCT · Norwood Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 015C, 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
29,639 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
714 published events cover 12 months, averaging 59.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 379 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.