Scarborough
Scarborough is covered by postcode districts YO11 and YO12. It is in the North Yorkshire council area, England.
Every postcode in Scarborough, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 30
- At medium risk at worst: 12
- At low risk at worst: 17
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,451
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 1,510 postcodes in Scarborough that ONS places, 30 have a home or business at high risk, 12 are at medium risk at worst, 17 are at low risk at worst and 1,451 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 150 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 54.2733, longitude -0.4092. 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
30 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Further out, not drawn
This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
What is it like to live in Scarborough?
Homes sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4.2% on the 12 months before. At 1,126 of the 1,422 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 340 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 59 of its 1,510 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Scarborough, 750 metres 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 Scarborough?
Homes in Scarborough sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 827 sales, up 4.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £300,000 117 sales
- Semi-detached £203,500 260 sales
- Terraced £148,000 259 sales
- Flat or maisonette £120,000 191 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole YO12 district, Scarborough's main postcode district: a typical £181,750.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Scarborough: 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 Scarborough?
65 of the 1,510 postcodes now in use in Scarborough came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 12 of the 943 homes sold in Scarborough were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the YO12 district, 4%.
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
| Period | In Scarborough | Across the YO12 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 827 (0%) | 6 of 524 (1%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 12 of 943 (1%) | 29 of 648 (4%) |
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 Scarborough?
Ofcom reports on 1,422 of the 1,510 postcodes in Scarborough. At 1,126 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Scarborough at risk of flooding?
59 of the 1,510 postcodes in Scarborough 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 340 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 Scarborough?
The open schools at the postcodes in Scarborough (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Gladstone Road Primary School800 m 680 pupils, 835 places
- Thomas Hinderwell Primary Academy1.0 km 180 pupils, 310 places
- Springhead School1.0 km 109 pupils, 97 places
- Scarborough College1.3 km 623 pupils, 625 places
- Friarage Community Academy1.5 km 249 pupils, 420 places
- St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Scarborough1.7 km 275 pupils, 280 places
- Wheatcroft Community Primary School1.7 km 201 pupils, 210 places
- Scarborough, Northstead Community Primary School1.9 km 560 pupils, 630 places
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 Scarborough?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Scarborough is Scarborough Rail Station, 750 m away in a straight line.
- Scarborough Rail Station Railway station 750 mWalk
- Seamer Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
- Filey Rail Station Railway station 10.3 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 Scarborough?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Scarborough, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Haxby Group Scarborough Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 01723 360835 450 mWalk
- Castle Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 0330 123 9278 900 mWalk
- Brook Square Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01723 360098 950 mWalk
- Scarborough Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01723 375343 3.3 kmCycle
- Hackness Road Surgery Phone 01723 506706 3.3 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Scarborough safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 6,680 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Scarborough 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
- 559 September 2025
- 543 October 2025
- 543 November 2025
- 587 December 2025
- 479 January 2026
- 440 February 2026
- 514 March 2026
- 557 April 2026
- 569 May 2026
- 646 June 2026
- 667 July 2026
- 576 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 76, possession of weapons 71, vehicle crime 70, robbery 43, bicycle theft 28, theft from the person 25.
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 postcodeSource: 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 Scarborough?
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Scarborough and Whitby (1,509) and Thirsk and Malton (1)
- Police force area
- North Yorkshire
- Region
- Yorkshire and The Humber
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Scarborough
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell North Yorkshire about council tax Council tax, on northyorks.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Scarborough
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Scarborough postcodes
1,510 postcodes in use in Scarborough, by district:
Those districts are all in the YO postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Scarborough
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Scarborough's £175,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Scarborough
- What is it like to live in Scarborough?
- Homes sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4.2% on the 12 months before. At 1,126 of the 1,422 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 340 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 59 of its 1,510 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Scarborough, 750 metres 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 Scarborough?
- Scarborough is covered by postcode districts YO11 and YO12, across 1,510 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Scarborough in?
- Scarborough is in the North Yorkshire council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Scarborough?
- Homes in Scarborough sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 827 sales, up 4.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Scarborough?
- In Scarborough, primary schools at its postcodes include Gladstone Road Primary School, Thomas Hinderwell Primary Academy and Springhead School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Scarborough University Technical College, Westwood Academy and Springhead School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Scarborough have a railway station?
- Yes: Scarborough is 750 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Scarborough, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Scarborough?
- Ofcom reports on 1,422 of the 1,510 postcodes in Scarborough. At 1,126 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Scarborough at risk of flooding?
- 59 of the 1,510 postcodes in Scarborough 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 340 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 Scarborough?
- 65 of the 1,510 postcodes now in use in Scarborough came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 12 of the 943 homes sold in Scarborough were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the YO12 district, 4%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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