Brighouse
WardEast Calderdale. About 11,141 people in 12 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 35% of people in Brighouse live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brighouse compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brighouse safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brighouse at a rate of 147.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 115.8 per 1,000 people across Calderdale.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 130 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brighouse.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (614), shoplifting (296) and other crime (289).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Calderdale
These figures are published for the whole of Calderdale, not for each ward, so they describe all of Calderdale and not Brighouse alone. See Calderdale
Brighouse in brief
Brighouse had 11,053 usual residents at the census.
About 35% of people in Brighouse live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brighouse, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Brighouse, 4.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.