18th December 2025 by Simon Greaves
The Index of multiple deprivation (IMD) combines information from the English Indices of deprivation (IoD). It is the Government’s official measure of relative deprivation for LSOAs (Lower layer super output areas). LSOAs are small geographical areas of approximately 1,600 people. There are 129...
10th February 2023 by Cath Bentley
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has completed the first of three phases of publishing information about Census 2021. You can now find information about Calderdale’s communities and wards from Census 2021 in our ward demographic profiles and dedicated Census 2021 pages. Highlights from phase...
14th November 2022 by Simon Greaves
The Office for National Statistics has started to publish more detailed information about Census 2021, including a topic summary called Demography and migration: Census 2021 in England and Wales and a new Census Maps visualisation tool published on 2 November 2022. You can find links to these and...
15th August 2022 by Diane Wilkinson
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the initial results from Census 2021 28 June 2022. Five data sets were released. These cover population and household results at local authority level, and are rounded to the nearest 100. The data sets are: population by sex; population by five year...
14th April 2022 by Diane Wilkinson
Census 2021 was taken 21 March 2021. It is run every ten years by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It gives us the most accurate estimate of all people and households in England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate censuses). The information you give in the census is used...
13th October 2021 by Cath Bentley
Calderdale is a metropolitan district, situated in the South Pennines between Greater Manchester, and Leeds and Bradford. Within England, it is one of the larger districts by area, but one of the smallest by population, covering the towns of Brighouse, Elland, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge...
24th October 2018 by David Brook
Calderdale Council has trialled a new partnership project with the Universities of Huddersfield and Leeds. It offered a variety of research project ideas for final year masters or PhD students, mainly using open data on Calderdale Dataworks. Subjects included topical matters such as reablement and...
1st March 2018 by Diane Wilkinson
All local planning authorities are required to publish and maintain Brownfield land registers as open data (see The Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017). Land is classed as brownfield if it has been previously developed. You can see Calderdale’s Brownfield land...
24th January 2018 by Diane Wilkinson
Ever wondered what data is available for the ward that you live and / or work in? On Calderdale DataWorks, we’ve created a series of Ward profiles that provide data on many topics, such as demographics, health and income. Since we first highlighted the profiles in September 2016, these have been...
26th June 2017 by Diane Wilkinson
Our Neighbourhood ward profiles are the first of a series of data visualisations to give a graphical element to data on the different wards in Calderdale. This highlights information that can affect the neighbourhood that we live in, such as population density, homelessness, income deprivation,...
8th January 2016 by Diane Wilkinson
We have published data, maps and information relating to the recent flooding in Calderdale: Flood data The maps and addresses provided are an indicative representation of areas affected by recent flooding as at the date of publication. The information has been collated from local intelligence in the...