Shelf and Northowram
TownTown in Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Shelf and Northowram is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shelf and Northowram 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 100% of people in Shelf and Northowram live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shelf and Northowram compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shelf and Northowram safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shelf and Northowram at a rate of 48.9 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, 45 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shelf and Northowram.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (175), other crime (94) and vehicle crime (52).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Shelf and Northowram was 60.7 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 Shelf and Northowram, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Shelf and Northowram has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Shelf and Northowram
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calderdale 003A | 1,421 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.0% |
| Calderdale 003B | 1,551 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.4% |
| Calderdale 003C | 1,675 | 56.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 67.3% |
| Calderdale 003D | 1,402 | 37.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.0% |
| Calderdale 003E | 2,017 | 39.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.6% |
| Calderdale 003F | 1,499 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
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 Shelf and Northowram1
Middle areas in Shelf and Northowram1
Towns near Shelf and Northowram6
Shelf and Northowram in brief
Shelf and Northowram is a town in Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 9,271 people lived in Shelf and Northowram in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £234,500 in 2025 across 178 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Shelf and Northowram was £234,500 in 2025.
Shelf and Northowram had 9,191 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Shelf and Northowram live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shelf and Northowram, 88.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.