Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Skipton Academy is the nearest published school at 561 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BD23 1SF
Skipton West & West Craven · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon
- Postcode district
- BD23
- Postcode sector
- BD23 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BD23 1SF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- 1 July 1997
- Postcode area
- BD
- Postcode district
- BD23
- Postcode sector
- BD23 1
- Latitude
- 53.958761
- Longitude
- -2.031698
- British National Grid easting
- 398,018
- British National Grid northing
- 451,407
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Skipton West & West Craven · E05014321
- Parish or community
- E04012269
- Westminster constituency
- Skipton and Ripon · E14001475
- Output area
- E00140415
- Lower layer super output area
- Craven 006E · E01034956
- Middle layer super output area
- Craven 006 · E02005747
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BD23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 3
- 561 m
The Skipton Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 632 m
Skipton Girls' High School
Academy converter
- 738 m
Craven College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,000
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 381
- Anti social behaviour 225
- Shoplifting 97
- Public order 65
- Criminal damage and arson 64
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BD23 1 residents
- 6,166
Age bands in BD23 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
933 residents
517 residents
1,377 residents
1,768 residents
1,574 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
DYNELEY HOUSE SURGERY
NEWMARKET STREET, SKIPTON, BD23 2HZ
ODS code B82053
1.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Clifford Court
BCT · Skipton
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Skipton
- 0.2 miles
Opp Kwick Fit
BCT · Skipton
- 0.2 miles
Gisburn Street
BCT · Skipton
- 0.2 miles
Gisburn Street
BCT · Skipton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Craven 006E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
10,099 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,000 published events cover 12 months, averaging 83.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 381 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.