Barwick in Elmet

What is it like to live in Barwick in Elmet?

Homes sold for a typical £320,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 73 of the 78 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 78 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Windmill Health Centre, 3.5 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Garforth, 3.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Barwick in Elmet?

Homes in Barwick in Elmet sold for a typical £320,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 27 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £351,250 from 30 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached £432,500 15 sales
• Semi-detached £290,000 9 sales
• Terraced 3 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole LS15 district, Barwick in Elmet's main postcode district: a typical £270,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Barwick in Elmet: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Barwick in Elmet?

None of the 78 postcodes now in use in Barwick in Elmet came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 30 homes sold in Barwick in Elmet were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LS15 district, 15%.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Barwick in Elmet?

Ofcom reports on 78 of the 78 postcodes in Barwick in Elmet. At 73 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Barwick in Elmet at risk of flooding?

None of the 78 postcodes in Barwick in Elmet is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Barwick in Elmet?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Barwick in Elmet. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Barwick in Elmet?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Barwick in Elmet is Garforth Rail Station, 3.7 km away in a straight line.

• Garforth Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
• East Garforth Rail Station Railway station 4.4 kmCycle
• Cross Gates Rail Station Railway station 4.7 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Barwick in Elmet?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Barwick in Elmet. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Windmill Health Centre Phone 0113 273 3733 3.5 kmCycle
• Moorfield House Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2026 · Phone 0113 286 2214 3.7 kmCycle
• Garforth Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2025 · Phone 0113 287 7321 4.1 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Barwick in Elmet safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 96 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Barwick in Elmet over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 2, shoplifting 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Barwick in Elmet?

Council

Leeds

Parliamentary constituency

Wetherby and Easingwold

Police force area

West Yorkshire

Region

Yorkshire and The Humber

Country

England

MP

Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative)

All 78 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.