Brighouse
TownTown in Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Brighouse is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Brighouse add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 72% 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 town. 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 99.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 263 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 (1,367), other crime (595) and shoplifting (433).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brighouse was 95.4 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Brighouse, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brighouse has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Brighouse
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calderdale 011A | 1,589 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Calderdale 011B | 1,427 | 21.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.9% |
| Calderdale 011C | 1,475 | 44.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.8% |
| Calderdale 011D | 1,728 | 70.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.9% |
| Calderdale 015A | 1,654 | 264.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.3% |
| Calderdale 015B | 1,798 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.2% |
| Calderdale 015C | 1,951 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
| Calderdale 015D | 2,162 | 84.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.3% |
| Calderdale 015E | 1,319 | 115.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Calderdale 019A | 1,697 | 48.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Calderdale 019B | 1,603 | 38.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Calderdale 019C | 1,431 | 91.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.3% |
| Calderdale 019D | 1,370 | 166.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Calderdale 019E | 1,569 | 369.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 81.5% |
| Calderdale 023A | 1,287 | 16.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Calderdale 023B | 1,483 | 36.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.8% |
| Calderdale 023C | 1,455 | 120.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Calderdale 023D | 1,511 | 110.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Calderdale 024A | 1,722 | 163.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.7% |
| Calderdale 024C | 1,382 | 100.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Calderdale 024D | 1,566 | 80.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Calderdale 024E | 1,415 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Josh Fenton-GlynnLabourMP for Calder Valley
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Brighouse2
Middle areas in Brighouse5
Towns near Brighouse6
Brighouse in brief
Brighouse is a town in Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 33,665 people lived in Brighouse in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 595 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 99.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brighouse was £220,000 in 2025.
Brighouse had 33,159 usual residents at the census.
About 72% of people in Brighouse live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brighouse, 96.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.