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 and Todmorden. The headline demographic statistics are: the district covers 140 square miles, or 36,392...

Partnership projects with the University of Huddersfield December 2019 Calderdale Council and the University of Huddersfield have completed a successful second year of innovative data projects. The collaboration involved MBA and MSc students taking on a range of research projects using open data on Calderdale Dataworks, data from the Council’s Performance and Business Intelligence team, as well as new data generated by the...

Open Innovations Open Innovations (formerly ODI (Open Data Institute) Leeds) is a “not for profit, independent, mission led, radically open type of organisation”. It was created to explore and deliver the potential of open innovation with data. This is achieved by providing leadership, research and innovation, training, supporting startups and talking to the UK government. This is all done in collaboration with...

Get Involved Use our data, share your ideas, read our stories, submit your own data and help us build a bigger, richer picture of Calderdale. We want to publish data from other organisations and businesses too. Get in touch if you have open data you would like to share. Ask us a question, suggest new datasets, share your ideas or submit your own...

Traffic count Traffic count We have traffic counters at eight locations across Calderdale. The dashboard shows: Full year and snapshot: the volume of traffic by month and the last three months Full year data: data from the two traffic counters which record data all year Snapshot data: data from the traffic counters which record snapshot data for three months of the year Counter locations: where the...

Data Works analytics Data Works analytics We download monthly analytical data from Google Analytics on the use of Calderdale Data Works. We use the data to see how the site is used and what is popular (or not). This helps to inform the data we include. Statistics for Data Works prior to September 2018 can be found at Calderdale Data Works web...

Council budget Council budget The Council budget for Calderdale Council is agreed by the full Council at the annual budget meeting in the last quarter of the previous financial year. The data in this dashboard is broken down by directorate, service, cost centre and type of cost. Central control accounts contain all income and grants which are not ring fenced. These include locally...

Consistent Financial Reporting Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) CFR is a framework which provides a standard template for schools to collect data about their income and expenditure by financial year. All maintained schools provide the data to their local authority in a financial statement each year. The Consistent financial reports dataset contains the data for all Calderdale maintained schools, and is used to...

Complaints compliments Complaints and compliments We value the feedback we receive from our customers and use these to improve and inform our services. You can find more about our complaints procedures at Calderdale Council: Complaints and compliments. This dashboard uses the data available in the Complaints and compliments dataset to give an interactive view of the number and breakdown of the complaints and...

Census 2021 publications Census 2021 publications The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is releasing the data from Census 2021 in three phases. This began in Summer 2022 with the initial population data. These are links to all the main data sets and publications. We are also publishing links to data sets, reports and other publications using Census 2021 data on Calderdale elsewhere on...