Businesses in Halifax
Calderdale’s main town and the Guide’s home patch, with a dense professional and trades economy built around the Piece Hall, Dean Clough and the surrounding valley mills.
- District
- Calderdale
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Postcodes
- HX1, HX2, HX3
- In the Guide
- 11 businesses across 12 sectors
Halifax as a business town
Halifax has an unusually deep independent business base for a town of its size. The mill conversions at Dean Clough alone hold several hundred businesses, and the professional cluster around Commercial Street and Bull Green has grown steadily as Leeds and Manchester costs have risen.
For buyers, the practical consequence is that most services you would go to a city for — accountancy, marketing, IT, commercial building work — have a credible Halifax option that costs less and answers the phone faster. The Guide covers Halifax in more depth than anywhere else because that is where our own working knowledge is strongest.
Every business we list in Halifax
Grouped by sector, with recommended and featured businesses first.
Questions about Halifax
What sort of businesses is Halifax known for?
Halifax has a long financial services history through the building society that took the town’s name, and that has left a base of accountancy, legal and financial firms. Alongside that sit textile and engineering successors, a growing creative and digital cluster around Dean Clough, and a large independent trades economy serving Calderdale’s Victorian housing stock and mill buildings.
Is Halifax in West Yorkshire?
Yes. Halifax is the largest town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, which is one of the five districts of West Yorkshire. Its postcodes run HX1 to HX3.