Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 6 secondary schools. Woodside Academy is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HX3 8QZ
Hipperholme & Lightcliffe · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX3 8QZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX3
- Postcode sector
- HX3 8
- Latitude
- 53.741816
- Longitude
- -1.797104
- British National Grid easting
- 413,480
- British National Grid northing
- 427,288
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
- E00054998
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 011C · E01010907
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 6
- 1.6 km
Woodside Academy
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
St Michael and All Angels CofE Primary & Pre School
Foundation school
- 1.7 km
Millcourt School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 303
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 107
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Vehicle crime 38
- Other theft 30
- Burglary 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- HX3 8 residents
- 7,854
1 female, 3 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 0.1% 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 50%
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
12
within 5 km straight-line
THE NORTHOLME PRACTICE
KOS CLINIC, 4 ROYDLANDS STREET, HIPPERHOLME, HALIFAX, HX3 8AF
ODS code B84008
1.9 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
2.4 km
WIBSEY & QUEENSBURY MED P
FAIR ROAD, BRADFORD, BD6 1TD
ODS code B83028
3.1 km
HOLLYNS HEALTH & WELLBEING
4 GLENHOLME PARK, CLAYTON, BRADFORD, BD14 6NF
ODS code B83045
4.3 km
CHURCH LANE SURGERY
24 CHURCH LANE, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 1AT
ODS code B84011
4.4 km
RYDINGS HALL SURGERY
RYDINGS HALL, CHURCH LANE, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 1AT
ODS code B84003
4.4 km
THE RIDGE MEDICAL PRACT.
COUSEN ROAD, GREAT HORTON, BRADFORD, BD7 3JX
ODS code B83055
4.5 km
CARITAS GROUP PRACTICE
WOODSIDE SURGERY, WOODSIDE ROAD, BOOTHTOWN, HALIFAX, HX3 6EL
ODS code B84618
4.8 km
DR GILKAR
392 LITTLE HORTON LANE, BRADFORD, BD5 0NX
ODS code B83653
5.0 km
DR I M RAJA & PARTNER
392 LITTLE HORTON LANE, BRADFORD, BD5 0NX
ODS code B83025
5.0 km
LISTER LANE SURGERY
30 LISTER LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 5AX
ODS code B84612
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Norwood Green Terminus
BCT · Norwood Green
- 0.3 miles
Norwood Green Terminus
BCT · Norwood Green
- 0.5 miles
Village Street
BCT · Norwood Green
- 0.5 miles
Village Street
BCT · Norwood Green
- 0.6 miles
Norwood Green War Memorial
BCT · Norwood Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 011C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,268 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 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
303 published events cover 12 months, averaging 25.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 107 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.