WARDS END, HX1 1DE House Prices & Local Information

HX1 1DE is an up-and-coming urban area on Wards End, 0.2km from Blackledge in Halifax. Administratively it sits within Skircoat ward and the Halifax constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, HX1 1DE is a diverse renting area with many ethnic minority families, mostly European-born. During the day, urban high streets with mixed ethnicity and businesses. This is a settled, family-oriented neighbourhood (average age 46) — stable, lower-turnover, predominantly owner-occupied. 26% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence.

Safety: Crime rates are high (530 per 1,000 residents) — commercial zones and transport hubs in the vicinity contribute to these figures. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for HX1 1DE are sourced from Output Area E00178662 (shared with 61 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.