Bishopthorpe

Bishopthorpe is covered by postcode district YO23. It is in the York council area, England.

Typical price £400,000 Homes sold in Bishopthorpe, last 12 months. ▲ 0.3% on the year before Gigabit broadband 59 of 67 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 41 of 67 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 293 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Bishopthorpe, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Bishopthorpe, by flood risk Of the 67 postcodes in Bishopthorpe that ONS places, 9 have a home or business at high risk, 20 are at medium risk at worst, 11 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 26 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. 2 groups of postcodes at high or medium risk are outlined: 17 postcodes at high or medium risk; 9 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Bishopthorpe. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. YO23 2BD: not on the flood risk listYO23 2QJ: not on the flood risk listYO23 2QL: not on the flood risk listYO23 2QN: not on the flood risk listYO23 2QW: not on the flood risk listYO23 2QX: not on the flood risk listYO23 2QY: not on the flood risk listYO23 2QZ: not on the flood risk listYO23 2RH: not on the flood risk listYO23 2RL: not on the flood risk listYO23 2RN: not on the flood risk listYO23 2RP: not on the flood risk listYO23 2RT: not on the flood risk listYO23 2RW: not on the flood risk listYO23 2SF: not on the flood risk listYO23 2SG: not on the flood risk listYO23 2SQ: not on the flood risk listYO23 2SR: not on the flood risk listYO23 2SU: not on the flood risk listYO23 2SX: not on the flood risk listYO23 2SY: not on the flood risk listYO23 2SZ: not on the flood risk listYO23 2TA: not on the flood risk listYO23 2TB: not on the flood risk listYO23 2TE: not on the flood risk listYO23 2TF: not on the flood risk listYO23 2TD: very low flood risk onlyYO23 2GF: low flood risk at worstYO23 2QG: low flood risk at worstYO23 2QS: low flood risk at worstYO23 2RS: low flood risk at worstYO23 2RZ: low flood risk at worstYO23 2SH: low flood risk at worstYO23 2SJ: low flood risk at worstYO23 2SN: low flood risk at worstYO23 2SP: low flood risk at worstYO23 2SS: low flood risk at worstYO23 2SW: low flood risk at worstYO23 2QF: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2QH: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2QP: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2QQ: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2QR: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2QT: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RB: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RD: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RE: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RF: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RG: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RJ: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RQ: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RR: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RU: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RX: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2RY: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2SL: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2ST: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2UE: medium flood risk at worstYO23 2GE: high flood riskYO23 2RA: high flood riskYO23 2SA: high flood riskYO23 2SB: high flood riskYO23 2SD: high flood riskYO23 2SE: high flood riskYO23 2XB: high flood riskYO23 2XD: high flood risk Bishopthorpe 17 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to YO23 2RA, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk17 postcodes at high or medium risk9 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to YO23 2GE, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk9 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Bishopthorpe, by flood risk Of the 67 postcodes in Bishopthorpe that ONS places, 9 have a home or business at high risk, 20 are at medium risk at worst, 11 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 26 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. 2 groups of postcodes at high or medium risk are outlined: 17 postcodes at high or medium risk; 9 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Bishopthorpe. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Bishopthorpe
  • A home or business at high risk: 9
  • At medium risk at worst: 20
  • At low risk at worst: 11
  • At very low risk only: 1
  • Not on the at-risk list: 26
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 67 postcodes in Bishopthorpe that ONS places, 9 have a home or business at high risk, 20 are at medium risk at worst, 11 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 26 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 170 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.9198, longitude -1.0982. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

YO23 2RA9 at high riskYO23 2XB4 at high riskYO23 2GE3 at high riskYO23 2SD3 at high riskYO23 2QE2 at high riskYO23 2SE1 at high riskYO23 2SA1 at high riskYO23 2SB1 at high riskYO23 2XD1 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 17 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. YO23 2RA, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
  • 9 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. YO23 2GE, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Bishopthorpe?

Homes sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.3% on the 12 months before. At 59 of the 67 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 293 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 41 of its 67 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Old School Medical Practice, 2.9 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is York, 4.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Bishopthorpe?

Homes in Bishopthorpe sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 38 sales, up 0.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£400,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£399,000
12 months to August 2026
£400,000

▲ up 0.3% on the 12 months before

Detached£496,250 14 sales
Semi-detached£346,250 20 sales
Terraced 3 sales, too few to price
Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole YO23 district, Bishopthorpe's main postcode district: a typical £372,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Bishopthorpe: 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Bishopthorpe?

None of the 67 postcodes now in use in Bishopthorpe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 56 homes sold in Bishopthorpe were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the YO23 district, 3%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn BishopthorpeAcross the YO23 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 38 (0%) 3 of 264 (1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 56 (0%) 9 of 340 (3%)

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.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Bishopthorpe?

Ofcom reports on 67 of the 67 postcodes in Bishopthorpe. At 59 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit59 of 67
Postcodes where every home can get superfast64 of 67

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.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Bishopthorpe at risk of flooding?

41 of the 67 postcodes in Bishopthorpe have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 293 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 41 of 67 postcodes High: 25Medium: 268Low: 244Very low: 1

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Bishopthorpe?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Bishopthorpe. 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.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Bishopthorpe?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bishopthorpe is York Rail Station, 4.3 km away in a straight line.

  • York Rail Station Railway station 4.3 kmCycle
  • Poppleton Rail Station Railway station 7.1 kmDrive
  • Ulleskelf Rail Station Railway station 10.6 kmDrive

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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Bishopthorpe?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Bishopthorpe. 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.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Bishopthorpe safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 283 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Bishopthorpe 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

  1. 26 September 2025
  2. 20 October 2025
  3. 19 November 2025
  4. 26 December 2025
  5. 38 January 2026
  6. 14 February 2026
  7. 24 March 2026
  8. 27 April 2026
  9. 20 May 2026
  10. 26 June 2026
  11. 19 July 2026
  12. 24 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Shoplifting95 reports
Violence and sexual offences66 reports
Anti-social behaviour57 reports
Other theft17 reports
Public order16 reports
Criminal damage and arson15 reports
Other crime8 reports
Burglary4 reports

Also: bicycle theft 2, vehicle crime 1, robbery 1, possession of weapons 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.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Bishopthorpe?

Council
York
Parliamentary constituency
York Outer
Police force area
North Yorkshire
Region
Yorkshire and The Humber
Country
England
MP
Mr Luke Charters (Labour)

All 67 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Bishopthorpe postcodes

67 postcodes in use in Bishopthorpe, by district:

YO23 postcode district,67 postcodes

That district is in the YO postcode area.

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Places near Bishopthorpe

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Bishopthorpe's £400,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Copmanthorpe2.8 km, £380,500York4.4 km, £290,000Osbaldwick6.0 km, £312,500Upper Poppleton7.7 km, £490,000Huntington8.0 km, £295,000Wheldrake9.0 km, £421,000Dunnington9.2 km, £390,000Riccall10.0 km, £322,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Bishopthorpe

What is it like to live in Bishopthorpe?
Homes sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.3% on the 12 months before. At 59 of the 67 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 293 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 41 of its 67 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Old School Medical Practice, 2.9 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is York, 4.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Bishopthorpe?
Bishopthorpe is covered by postcode district YO23, across 67 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Bishopthorpe in?
Bishopthorpe is in the York council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Bishopthorpe?
Bishopthorpe is in the York Outer parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Mr Luke Charters (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Bishopthorpe?
Homes in Bishopthorpe sold for a typical £400,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 38 sales, up 0.3% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Bishopthorpe?
In Bishopthorpe, primary schools at its postcodes include Archbishop of York's CofE Junior School, Bishopthorpe and Bishopthorpe Infant School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is OneSchool Global York Campus, 1.9 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Bishopthorpe have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bishopthorpe is York, 4.3 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Bishopthorpe?
Ofcom reports on 67 of the 67 postcodes in Bishopthorpe. At 59 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Bishopthorpe at risk of flooding?
41 of the 67 postcodes in Bishopthorpe have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 293 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Bishopthorpe?
None of the 67 postcodes now in use in Bishopthorpe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 56 homes sold in Bishopthorpe were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the YO23 district, 3%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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