Neighbourhoods in York
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24 neighbourhoods · 121 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Heworth South & The Groves | £982 | +5.0% | 85 | 43 |
| York City Centre | £1,032 | +5.0% | 77 | 4 |
| Clifton North | £1,034 | +5.0% | 80 | 31 |
| Westfield, Chapelfields & Foxwood | £1,061 | +5.0% | 74 | 27 |
| Tang Hall | £1,082 | +5.0% | 62 | 67 |
| Holgate West | £1,087 | +5.0% | 82 | 42 |
| Huntington | £1,127 | +5.0% | 72 | 67 |
| Woodthorpe & Acomb Park | £1,128 | +5.0% | 91 | 78 |
| Fulford Road & Clementhorpe | £1,153 | +5.0% | 82 | 46 |
| Holgate East | £1,154 | +5.0% | 93 | 79 |
| Clifton Without & Skelton | £1,157 | +5.0% | 71 | 84 |
| Acomb | £1,176 | +5.0% | 84 | 79 |
| Haxby | £1,189 | +5.0% | 45 | 82 |
| New Earswick | £1,198 | +5.0% | 65 | 64 |
| Strensall | £1,208 | +5.0% | 57 | 96 |
| Rawcliffe & Clifton South | £1,229 | +5.0% | 78 | 86 |
| Osbaldwick | £1,236 | +5.0% | 68 | 78 |
| Wigginton | £1,255 | +5.0% | 62 | 92 |
| Fulford, Heslington & University | £1,265 | +5.0% | 21 | 69 |
| South Bank & Dringhouses | £1,288 | +5.0% | 66 | 73 |
| Dunnington, Elvington & Wheldrake | £1,302 | +5.0% | 47 | 96 |
| Heworth North & Stockton | £1,307 | +5.0% | 76 | 96 |
| Bishopthorpe & Copmanthorpe | £1,323 | +5.0% | 53 | 98 |
| Poppleton, Rufforth & Askham | £1,418 | +5.0% | 76 | 94 |
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 York
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in York. 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 York median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across York.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in York
Crime in York runs at 41% below the national average. Above median (#136 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 59.2, 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 York
100% of schools serving York 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 York
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 York
York has 0.58 jobs per resident locally. Top quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about York
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 York?
- The median monthly rent across York is £1,173, 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 York?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in York by estimated median rent is Heworth South & The Groves at approximately £982/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in York?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in York is Holgate East at 93/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is York a safe area?
- York has an average safety score of 66/100 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 York?
- The most common council tax band in York is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £1,835. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within York.
- What is the average salary in York?
- The median annual resident salary in York is £32,961, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in York, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in York?
- The average property price in York is approximately £308,589 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 York?
- Gross rental yield in York is approximately 4.1% — 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 York?
- 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 4.7 years in York. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in York?
- 100% of premises in York 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 York?
- 1.9% of 16-64 residents in York 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 York?
- York contains 24 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 121 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 York
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.
- York 019D
- York 013I
- York 010D
- York 015D
- York 010B
- York 019B
- York 013C
- York 017E
- York 021D
- York 005B
- York 017A
- York 017D
- York 023B
- York 015B
- York 014B
- York 019F
- York 015E
- York 013E
- York 021C
- York 009B
- York 009A
- York 016A
- York 016C
- York 015F
- York 019A
- York 010E
- York 019E
- York 013H
- York 012D
- York 010A
- York 013A
- York 013G
- York 008B
- York 017C
- York 017B
- York 013F
- York 007A
- York 016D
- York 014A
- York 012C
- York 016E
- York 021B
- York 007B
- York 006A
- York 019C
- York 016F
- York 018E
- York 015C
- York 012A
- York 010C
- York 015A
- York 009E
- York 018D
- York 009C
- York 009D
- York 006B
- York 011B
- York 022C
- York 006D
- York 014D
- York 021A
- York 018B
- York 007C
- York 022D
- York 018F
- York 001B
- York 012F
- York 023D
- York 001A
- York 018A
- York 011C
- York 005C
- York 006E
- York 012B
- York 011A
- York 001D
- York 002B
- York 004D
- York 018C
- York 022E
Showing 80 of 121 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.