Halifax Town
WardEast Calderdale. About 12,396 people in 6.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Halifax Town live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Halifax Town compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Halifax Town safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Halifax Town at a rate of 355.8 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, 493 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Halifax Town.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,822), other crime (987) and shoplifting (717).
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 Halifax Town alone. See Calderdale
Halifax Town in brief
Halifax Town had 11,529 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Halifax Town live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Halifax Town, 77.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Halifax Town, 7.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.