Neighbourhoods in North Yorkshire
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
77 neighbourhoods · 379 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in North Yorkshire
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in North Yorkshire. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the North Yorkshire median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across North Yorkshire.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in North Yorkshire
Crime in North Yorkshire runs at 2.2× safer than the national average. Top quartile (#55 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 46.7, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in North Yorkshire
100% of schools serving North Yorkshire are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in North Yorkshire
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire has 0.46 jobs per resident locally. Above median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about North Yorkshire
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in North Yorkshire?
- The median monthly rent across North Yorkshire is £831, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in North Yorkshire?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in North Yorkshire by estimated median rent is Scarborough Town & North Bay at approximately £585/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in North Yorkshire?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in North Yorkshire is Sutton & Crosshills at 97/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is North Yorkshire a safe area?
- North Yorkshire has an average safety score of 72/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in North Yorkshire?
- The most common council tax band in North Yorkshire is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,092. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within North Yorkshire.
- What is the average salary in North Yorkshire?
- The median annual resident salary in North Yorkshire is £30,683, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in North Yorkshire, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in North Yorkshire?
- The average property price in North Yorkshire is approximately £270,910 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in North Yorkshire?
- Gross rental yield in North Yorkshire is approximately 3.3% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in North Yorkshire?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 4.5 years in North Yorkshire. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in North Yorkshire?
- 100% of premises in North Yorkshire are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in North Yorkshire?
- 2.1% of 16-64 residents in North Yorkshire are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in North Yorkshire?
- North Yorkshire contains 77 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 379 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in North Yorkshire
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Harrogate 015C
- Harrogate 015E
- Selby 005D
- Harrogate 009B
- Harrogate 013C
- Harrogate 015D
- Scarborough 008C
- Craven 005C
- Harrogate 013A
- Selby 005E
- Harrogate 004B
- Scarborough 008B
- Harrogate 013D
- Scarborough 001F
- Harrogate 011C
- Harrogate 015A
- Craven 006A
- Hambleton 008A
- Richmondshire 004E
- Harrogate 015F
- Harrogate 008F
- Hambleton 008B
- Scarborough 008A
- Harrogate 019A
- Harrogate 011A
- Richmondshire 004I
- Scarborough 009B
- Hambleton 007F
- Hambleton 013B
- Scarborough 006B
- Harrogate 010E
- Hambleton 013D
- Harrogate 010F
- Harrogate 014C
- Craven 008B
- Harrogate 002B
- Harrogate 014F
- Hambleton 009C
- Scarborough 006D
- Selby 002E
- Harrogate 005B
- Harrogate 009A
- Ryedale 010D
- Selby 006F
- Scarborough 008E
- Harrogate 014D
- Hambleton 011B
- Ryedale 007B
- Selby 005H
- Scarborough 010C
- Hambleton 010A
- Selby 004C
- Harrogate 003D
- Hambleton 006B
- Harrogate 014B
- Scarborough 010B
- Harrogate 013E
- Selby 001A
- Harrogate 020F
- Scarborough 011D
- Scarborough 010A
- Harrogate 019B
- Harrogate 019C
- Craven 008E
- Harrogate 019D
- Harrogate 020E
- Ryedale 003B
- Craven 006D
- Harrogate 020G
- Craven 006F
- Craven 005B
- Ryedale 002A
- Ryedale 007C
- Scarborough 009C
- Hambleton 009D
- Harrogate 002D
- Hambleton 006D
- Hambleton 007C
- Harrogate 006B
- Hambleton 008E
Showing 80 of 379 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.