Crap Towns / Brighouse / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Brighouse?
In January 2026, 1.0% of premises in Brighouse couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 2.0 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 12 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 96.2% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 12 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 175 | 1.0% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 16,489 | 96.2% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Halifax | 7.0 km | 1.2 |
| Shelf and Northowram | 5.0 km | 1.1 |
| Brighouse | – | 1.0 |
| Mirfield | 6.5 km | 0.8 |
| Cleckheaton | 5.1 km | 0.8 |
| Liversedge | 5.6 km | 0.6 |
| Gomersal and Birkenshaw | 8.2 km | 0.6 |
| Queensbury | 8.0 km | 0.6 |
| Elland | 3.7 km | 0.3 |
| Huddersfield | 6.3 km | 0.3 |
| Heckmondwike | 7.7 km | less than 0.1 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |