Sherburn in Elmet

What is it like to live in Sherburn in Elmet?

Homes sold for a typical £257,250 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 170 of the 199 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 152 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 63 of its 205 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Sherburn-in-Elmet, 850 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Sherburn in Elmet?

Homes in Sherburn in Elmet sold for a typical £257,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 96 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £255,000 from 146 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £337,500 40 sales
• Semi-detached £240,000 33 sales
• Terraced £199,000 17 sales
• Flat or maisonette £130,000 6 sales

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

Across the whole LS25 district, Sherburn in Elmet's main postcode district: a typical £265,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Sherburn in Elmet: 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 Sherburn in Elmet?

25 of the 205 postcodes now in use in Sherburn in Elmet came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 146 homes sold in Sherburn in Elmet were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LS25 district, 14%.

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.

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 Sherburn in Elmet?

Ofcom reports on 199 of the 205 postcodes in Sherburn in Elmet. At 170 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 Sherburn in Elmet at risk of flooding?

63 of the 205 postcodes in Sherburn in Elmet 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 152 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Sherburn in Elmet?

The open schools at the postcodes in Sherburn in Elmet. 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. 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 Sherburn in Elmet?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Sherburn in Elmet is Sherburn-in-Elmet Rail Station, 850 m away in a straight line.

• Sherburn-in-Elmet Rail Station Railway station 850 mWalk
• South Milford Rail Station Railway station 1.4 kmCycle
• Church Fenton Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle

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.

Which GP surgeries are in Sherburn in Elmet?

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

• Sherburn Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2026 · Phone 01977 682208 700 mWalk

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Sherburn in Elmet safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 489 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Sherburn in Elmet 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: drugs 8, possession of weapons 7, other crime 6, bicycle theft 3, robbery 2, theft from the person 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 each way 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 Sherburn in Elmet?

Council

North Yorkshire

Parliamentary constituency

Selby

Police force area

North Yorkshire

Region

Yorkshire and The Humber

Country

England

MP

Keir Mather (Labour)

All 205 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.