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Yorkshire and The Humber

Halifax

1st decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
50
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 3,147 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.
NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)
Employment deprivation: bottom 5.8%. Number of employment-focused charities: 103.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Halifax yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime
42/543
Bottom 10%
health
93/543
Bottom 20%
income
66/543
Bottom 20%
housing
374/543
education
82/543
Bottom 20%
employment
38/543
Bottom 10%
environment
58/543
Bottom 20%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Identified resource gaps

crime CRITICAL
Rank 42/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
employment HIGH
Rank 38/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
103 employment-focused charities, 2365 employees
income MODERATE
Rank 66/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
132 income-focused charities, 1060 employees
health MODERATE
Rank 93/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
294 health-focused charities, 3469 employees
GP ratio: 1:3147 (above 1:2000 threshold)
education MODERATE
Rank 82/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
369 education-focused charities, 4082 employees
environment MODERATE
Rank 58/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
206 environment-focused charities, 1245 employees

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

734 registered charities

734
Charities
£15,105,078
Grants to HQ'd charities
6,200
Employees
71,599
Volunteers
21.0%
Govt funded
MEDIUM
Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

VIOLET MACKINTOSH
AFTERNOON LECTURERS FUND
ELISABETH EXWOOD MEMORIAL FUND
LADY ELIZABETH HASTING'S NON-EDUCATIONAL CHARITY
ANNIE RUSHTON TRUST
SPIRIT IN MIND

15 staff
HALIFAX OLD PEOPLE'S HOLIDAY FUND

8 staff
THE MID YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND
THE CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (EXPENDABLE FUNDS) COMMON INVESTMENT FUND
THE COCKCROFT AND WADSWORTH SCHOLARSHIP

115 staff

GP and primary care

9
GP practices
35
FQ FTE GPs
1:3,147
Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). This constituency is 947 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Halifax, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 4,000
Education 4,000
Social Care 3,000
Construction 2,025
Transport 1,065
Environment / Green 205

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance
360Giving GrantNav [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
Charity Commission Register [source]
Accessed 2026-03-31
English Indices of Deprivation [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]
Accessed 2026-04-04
Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08

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