Crap Towns / Halifax / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Halifax?
In January 2026, 1.2% of premises in Halifax couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 2.4 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 11 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 91.4% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 11 | less than 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 523 | 1.2% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 40,219 | 91.4% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Hebden Bridge | 8.7 km | 4.4 |
| Halifax | – | 1.2 |
| Bradford | 10.8 km | 1.2 |
| Shelf and Northowram | 4.1 km | 1.1 |
| Brighouse | 7.0 km | 1.0 |
| Linthwaite and Slaithwaite | 11.8 km | 1.0 |
| Cleckheaton | 11.1 km | 0.8 |
| Queensbury | 4.7 km | 0.6 |
| Elland | 5.8 km | 0.3 |
| Huddersfield | 10.9 km | 0.3 |
| Thornton | 7.5 km | 0.1 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |