Scarcroft

Scarcroft is covered by postcode districts LS14 and LS17. It is in the Leeds council area, England.

Typical price £801,500 Homes sold in Scarcroft, last 12 months. ▼ 0.4% on the year before Gigabit broadband 46 of 54 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Nearest school Bardsey Primary Academy 1.8 km from the middle, in a straight line

Every postcode in Scarcroft, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Scarcroft, by flood risk Of the 54 postcodes in Scarcroft that ONS places, 54 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Scarcroft. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. LS14 3AB: not on the flood risk listLS14 3AN: not on the flood risk listLS14 3AR: not on the flood risk listLS14 3AS: not on the flood risk listLS14 3AT: not on the flood risk listLS14 3AU: not on the flood risk listLS14 3AW: not on the flood risk listLS14 3AY: not on the flood risk listLS14 3AZ: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BA: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BF: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BH: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BJ: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BL: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BN: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BP: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BQ: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BR: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BS: not on the flood risk listLS14 3BW: not on the flood risk listLS14 3DS: not on the flood risk listLS14 3DT: not on the flood risk listLS14 3DU: not on the flood risk listLS14 3FD: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HJ: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HL: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HN: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HP: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HR: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HT: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HU: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HW: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HX: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HY: not on the flood risk listLS14 3HZ: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JA: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JE: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JG: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JH: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JJ: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JL: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JN: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JP: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JQ: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JR: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JS: not on the flood risk listLS14 3JU: not on the flood risk listLS14 3LD: not on the flood risk listLS17 9BF: not on the flood risk listLS17 9HZ: not on the flood risk listLS17 9JL: not on the flood risk listLS17 9JN: not on the flood risk listLS17 9JP: not on the flood risk listLS17 9PF: not on the flood risk list Scarcroft Map of every postcode in Scarcroft, by flood risk Of the 54 postcodes in Scarcroft that ONS places, 54 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Scarcroft. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Scarcroft
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 54

Of the 54 postcodes in Scarcroft that ONS places, 54 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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.8687, longitude -1.4534. 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

What is it like to live in Scarcroft?

Homes sold for a typical £801,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 0.4% on the 12 months before. At 46 of the 54 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 54 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. The nearest school is Bardsey Primary Academy, 1.8 km from the middle of its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Street Lane Practice, 4.9 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Cross Gates, 7.1 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 Scarcroft?

Homes in Scarcroft sold for a typical £801,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 14 sales, down 0.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£801,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£805,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 0.4% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £932,500 8 sales
  • Semi-detached 3 sales, too few to price
  • Terraced 2 sales, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole LS14 district, Scarcroft's main postcode district: a typical £234,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Scarcroft: 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 Scarcroft?

None of the 54 postcodes now in use in Scarcroft came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 12 homes sold in Scarcroft were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LS14 district, 12%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn ScarcroftAcross the LS14 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 14 (0%) 30 of 356 (8%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 12 (0%) 56 of 482 (12%)

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 Scarcroft?

Ofcom reports on 54 of the 54 postcodes in Scarcroft. At 46 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit46 of 54
Postcodes where every home can get superfast52 of 54

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 Scarcroft at risk of flooding?

None of the 54 postcodes in Scarcroft 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, 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 Scarcroft?

There is no primary school at the postcodes in Scarcroft; these are the nearest to its middle. 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 Scarcroft?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Scarcroft is Cross Gates Rail Station, 7.1 km away in a straight line.

  • Cross Gates Rail Station Railway station 7.1 kmDrive
  • Garforth Rail Station Railway station 9.3 kmDrive
  • East Garforth Rail Station Railway station 10.1 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 Scarcroft?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Scarcroft. 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 Scarcroft safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 63 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Scarcroft 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. 4 September 2025
  2. 7 October 2025
  3. 2 November 2025
  4. 5 December 2025
  5. 6 January 2026
  6. 4 February 2026
  7. 5 March 2026
  8. 5 April 2026
  9. 4 May 2026
  10. 5 June 2026
  11. 9 July 2026
  12. 7 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences21 reports
Public order10 reports
Other theft9 reports
Anti-social behaviour7 reports
Burglary4 reports
Criminal damage and arson3 reports
Other crime3 reports
Vehicle crime2 reports

Also: robbery 2, theft from the person 1, drugs 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 Scarcroft?

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 54 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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Scarcroft postcodes

54 postcodes in use in Scarcroft, by district:

LS14 postcode district,48 postcodesLS17 postcode district,6 postcodes

Those districts are all in the LS postcode area.

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Places near Scarcroft

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Scarcroft's £801,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Shadwell2.3 km, £562,500Bardsey2.4 km, £575,000Collingham, Leeds4.9 km, £706,000Scholes, Leeds4.9 km, £350,000Barwick in Elmet5.9 km, £320,000Bramham6.7 km, £365,000Boston Spa7.6 km, £472,500Wetherby8.3 km, £365,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Scarcroft

What is it like to live in Scarcroft?
Homes sold for a typical £801,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 0.4% on the 12 months before. At 46 of the 54 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 54 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. The nearest school is Bardsey Primary Academy, 1.8 km from the middle of its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Street Lane Practice, 4.9 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Cross Gates, 7.1 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 Scarcroft?
Scarcroft is covered by postcode districts LS14 and LS17, across 54 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Scarcroft in?
Scarcroft is in the Leeds council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Scarcroft?
Scarcroft is in the Wetherby and Easingwold parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Scarcroft?
Homes in Scarcroft sold for a typical £801,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 14 sales, down 0.4% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Scarcroft?
In Scarcroft, the nearest primary school to the middle of its postcodes is Bardsey Primary Academy, 1.8 km away in a straight line; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Aspire and Achieve, 3.5 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Scarcroft have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Scarcroft is Cross Gates, 7.1 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Scarcroft?
Ofcom reports on 54 of the 54 postcodes in Scarcroft. At 46 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Scarcroft at risk of flooding?
None of the 54 postcodes in Scarcroft 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. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Scarcroft?
None of the 54 postcodes now in use in Scarcroft came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 12 homes sold in Scarcroft were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LS14 district, 12%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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