Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 4 secondary schools. Trinity Academy Grammar is the nearest published school at 368 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HX6 2LJ
Sowerby Bridge · Calderdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sowerby Bridge
- Local authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax
- Postcode district
- HX6
- Postcode sector
- HX6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HX6 2LJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2018
- Postcode area
- HX
- Postcode district
- HX6
- Postcode sector
- HX6 2
- Latitude
- 53.710413
- Longitude
- -1.908260
- British National Grid easting
- 406,153
- British National Grid northing
- 423,779
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Calderdale · E08000033
- Electoral ward
- Sowerby Bridge · E05016497
- Parish or community
- E43000293
- Westminster constituency
- Halifax · E14001262
- Output area
- E00178637
- Lower layer super output area
- Calderdale 017D · E01010979
- Middle layer super output area
- Calderdale 017 · E02002260
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 HX6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 60
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 4
- 368 m
Trinity Academy Grammar
Academy sponsor led
- 392 m
Christ Church Sowerby Bridge CofE (VA) Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 463 m
Compass Community School Willow Park
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,594
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 701
- Anti social behaviour 194
- Public order 129
- Criminal damage and arson 104
- Other theft 102
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HX6 2 residents
- 6,637
Age bands in HX6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.5%
1,142 residents
652 residents
1,941 residents
1,821 residents
944 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
STATION ROAD SURGERY
STATION ROAD, SOWERBY BRIDGE, HX6 3AB
ODS code B84001
402 m
SPRING HALL GROUP PRACTICE
173C SPRING HALL LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 4JG
ODS code B84012
1.6 km
KING CROSS PRACTICE
KING CROSS SURGERY, 199 KING CROSS ROAD, KING CROSS, HALIFAX, HX1 3LW
ODS code B84021
1.9 km
PLANE TREES GROUP PRACTICE
51 SANDBEDS ROAD, HALIFAX, HX2 0QL
ODS code B84013
2.4 km
THE BOULEVARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
116 SAVILE PARK ROAD, HALIFAX, HX1 2ES
ODS code B84019
2.7 km
LISTER LANE SURGERY
30 LISTER LANE, HALIFAX, HX1 5AX
ODS code B84612
3.1 km
CARITAS GROUP PRACTICE
WOODSIDE SURGERY, WOODSIDE ROAD, BOOTHTOWN, HALIFAX, HX3 6EL
ODS code B84618
3.5 km
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
60A KEIGHLEY ROAD, OVENDEN, HALIFAX, HX2 8AL
ODS code B84613
4.1 km
STAINLAND ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
70 STAINLAND ROAD, GREETLAND, HALIFAX, HX4 8BD
ODS code B84009
4.3 km
BRIG ROYD SURGERY
HIRSTWOOD, RIPPONDEN, SOWERBY BRIDGE, HX6 4BN
ODS code B84007
4.4 km
KEIGHLEY ROAD SURGERY
KEIGHLEY ROAD, ILLINGWORTH, HALIFAX, HX2 9LL
ODS code B84010
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sowerby Bridge Lidl
BCT · Sowerby Bridge
- 0.1 miles
Beech Rd Church Bank
BCT · Sowerby Bridge
- 0.1 miles
Beech Rd Church Bank
BCT · Sowerby Bridge
- 0.1 miles
Sowerby Bridge Lidl
BCT · Sowerby Bridge
- 0.1 miles
Beech Road Albert Rd
BCT · Sowerby Bridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Calderdale 017D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,999 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
1,594 published events cover 12 months, averaging 132.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 701 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.