HX5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

296 of the district's 374 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 53.68460, -1.83524, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in HX5

Companies House lists 1,488 companies with a registered office in HX5; 66 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for HX5

• Calderdale
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Elland
• Elland Upper Edge
• Blackley
• Elland Lower Edge
• Halifax

Roads filed under HX5

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Ainley Bottom
• Ainley Street
• Albert Street
• Albion Street
• Alexandra Crescent
• Alma Street
• Back Bower Road
• Back Cross Lane
• Back South Parade
• Back Springfield Road
• Back Waverley Road
• Banks End Road
• Bath Street
• Bean Street
• Bedford Street
• Beech Street
• Beverley Close
• Binns Top Lane
• Blackley Road
• Bowood Road
• Boxhall Road
• Bracken Way
• Bramble Grove
• Briar Close
• Briggate
• Broad Lea
• Brooksbank Gardens
• Brook Street
• Broomfield
• Bryan Road
• Burley Street
• Caldercroft
• Calderdale Way
• Carlton Grove
• Catherine Crescent
• Catherine Street
• Century Road
• Charles Street
• Church Lane
• Church Street
• Claremont Street
• Common Road
• Coniston Close
• Coronation Street
• Crestfield Avenue
• Crestfield Crescent
• Crestfield Drive
• Crestfield Road
• Cross Lane
• Crown Street
• Dean Street
• Dene Close
• Dewsbury Road
• Dodgson Street
• Duke Street
• Dunce Park Close
• Eastgate
• Elizabeth Frances Street
• Elizabeth Street
• Elland Bridge

Check an address in HX5

Check an address in HX5

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=HX5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about HX5

What does an HX5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the HX5 district of the HX (Halifax) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Elland. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 296 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest HX5

• HX43.2 km
• HD33.5 km
• HD63.9 km
• HD24.2 km
• HX14.7 km
• HX34.7 km
• HD15.2 km
• HX66.2 km
• HD47.0 km
• HD57.2 km
• HD77.3 km
• HX27.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids