Grassington

What is it like to live in Grassington?

Homes sold for a typical £365,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 3 of the 59 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 59 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 railway station is Gargrave, 12.6 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; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Grassington?

Homes in Grassington sold for a typical £365,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 16 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £320,000 from 21 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 £680,000 5 sales
• Semi-detached £342,000 6 sales
• Terraced £340,000 5 sales

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

Across the whole BD23 district, Grassington's main postcode district: a typical £282,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Grassington: 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 Grassington?

None of the 59 postcodes now in use in Grassington came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 21 homes sold in Grassington were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BD23 district, 11%.

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 Grassington?

Ofcom reports on 59 of the 59 postcodes in Grassington. At 3 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 Grassington at risk of flooding?

None of the 59 postcodes in Grassington 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 Grassington?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Grassington. 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.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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

How far is the station from Grassington?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Grassington is Gargrave Rail Station, 12.6 km away in a straight line.

• Gargrave Rail Station Railway station 12.6 kmDrive
• Skipton Rail Station Railway station 12.8 kmDrive
• Hellifield Rail Station Railway station 16.5 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Is Grassington safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 53 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Grassington 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: vehicle crime 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 Grassington?

Council

North Yorkshire

Parliamentary constituency

Skipton and Ripon

Police force area

North Yorkshire

Region

Yorkshire and The Humber

Country

England

MP

Sir Julian Smith (Conservative)

All 59 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.