Helmsley

What is it like to live in Helmsley?

Homes sold for a typical £367,500 in the 12 months to August 2026. At 72 of the 82 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 43 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 16 of its 84 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes.

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 and NHS England, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Helmsley?

Homes in Helmsley sold for a typical £367,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 16 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £357,500 from 54 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 £466,000 7 sales
• Semi-detached 3 sales, too few to price
• Terraced 3 sales, too few to price
• Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price

Across the whole YO62 district, Helmsley's main postcode district: a typical £315,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Helmsley: 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 Helmsley?

4 of the 84 postcodes now in use in Helmsley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 54 homes sold in Helmsley were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the YO62 district, 3%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

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.

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 Helmsley?

Ofcom reports on 82 of the 84 postcodes in Helmsley. At 72 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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Helmsley at risk of flooding?

16 of the 84 postcodes in Helmsley 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 43 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

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 Helmsley?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Helmsley. 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: 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

Which GP surgeries are in Helmsley?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Helmsley. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Helmsley Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01439 770288 300 mWalk

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

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

Is Helmsley safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 114 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Helmsley 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: possession of weapons 3, bicycle theft 2, drugs 1, robbery 1, other 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.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Helmsley?

Council

North Yorkshire

Parliamentary constituency

Thirsk and Malton

Police force area

North Yorkshire

Region

Yorkshire and The Humber

Country

England

MP

Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative)

All 84 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, read 14 October 2026. See all our data sources