Halifax
TownTown in Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Halifax is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Halifax 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Halifax, 91.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Halifax compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Halifax safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Halifax at a rate of 153.0 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, 1,204 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Halifax.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (5,912), other crime (2,703) and anti-social behaviour (1,442).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Halifax was 160.5 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 Halifax, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Halifax has no single figure. Of its 57 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 23 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Halifax
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calderdale 001A | 1,741 | 75.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.3% |
| Calderdale 001B | 1,530 | 178.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Calderdale 001C | 1,295 | 61.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Calderdale 001D | 1,507 | 115.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.8% |
| Calderdale 002A | 1,614 | 114.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Calderdale 002B | 1,068 | 175.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.1% |
| Calderdale 002C | 1,512 | 156.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.6% |
| Calderdale 002D | 1,204 | 198.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.7% |
| Calderdale 005A | 1,556 | 238.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 84.6% |
| Calderdale 005B | 1,659 | 70.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.2% |
| Calderdale 005C | 1,391 | 137.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.0% |
| Calderdale 005D | 1,778 | 174.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Calderdale 005E | 1,396 | 158.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.4% |
| Calderdale 006A | 1,523 | 160.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Calderdale 006B | 1,422 | 86.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Calderdale 006C | 1,474 | 115.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Calderdale 006D | 1,193 | 156.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.0% |
| Calderdale 008A | 1,955 | 95.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.3% |
| Calderdale 008D | 1,514 | 180.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.6% |
| Calderdale 008F | 2,129 | 184.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.7% |
| Calderdale 008G | 1,306 | 1,527.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 56.9% |
| Calderdale 008H | 1,039 | 320.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 47.0% |
| Calderdale 009B | 1,468 | 134.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Calderdale 009C | 1,495 | 75.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.9% |
| Calderdale 009D | 1,552 | 52.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.9% |
| Calderdale 010A | 2,729 | 114.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.4% |
| Calderdale 010B | 1,679 | 166.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Calderdale 010C | 1,783 | 164.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Calderdale 010D | 2,413 | 98.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Calderdale 012A | 1,605 | 291.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| Calderdale 012B | 1,614 | 199.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.8% |
| Calderdale 012C | 1,400 | 277.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.8% |
| Calderdale 012D | 1,737 | 112.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Calderdale 012E | 1,360 | 165.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.2% |
| Calderdale 014A | 1,495 | 90.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.2% |
| Calderdale 014B | 1,687 | 85.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Calderdale 014C | 1,865 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.9% |
| Calderdale 014D | 1,497 | 130.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Calderdale 016A | 1,760 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 72.8% |
| Calderdale 016B | 2,027 | 69.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.9% |
| Calderdale 016C | 1,516 | 189.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.8% |
| Calderdale 016D | 1,835 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.0% |
| Calderdale 017A | 1,468 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.3% |
| Calderdale 017B | 1,869 | 65.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.4% |
| Calderdale 017C | 1,387 | 104.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.2% |
| Calderdale 017E | 1,495 | 72.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Calderdale 017F | 1,457 | 92.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.1% |
| Calderdale 018A | 1,471 | 173.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.4% |
| Calderdale 018B | 1,604 | 61.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.4% |
| Calderdale 018C | 1,423 | 93.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.1% |
| Calderdale 018D | 1,711 | 69.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.0% |
| Calderdale 018E | 1,722 | 127.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.0% |
| Calderdale 020A | 1,815 | 57.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 73.3% |
| Calderdale 021A | 1,765 | 90.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.1% |
| Calderdale 021B | 1,943 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.1% |
| Calderdale 021C | 1,613 | 209.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.7% |
| Calderdale 021D | 1,744 | 58.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.7% |
Your MP
- Kate DeardenLabour (Co-op)MP for Halifax
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 Halifax4
Middle areas in Halifax13
Towns near Halifax6
Halifax in brief
Halifax is a town in Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 91,611 people lived in Halifax in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £155,000 in 2025 across 1,138 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 153.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Halifax was £155,000 in 2025.
Halifax had 88,111 usual residents at the census.
In Halifax, 91.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Halifax, 6.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.