Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 3 secondary schools. Brooklands School is the nearest published school at 605 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BD23 2FF
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BD23 2FF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BD
- Postcode district
- BD23
- Postcode sector
- BD23 2
- Latitude
- 53.948903
- Longitude
- -2.022731
- British National Grid easting
- 398,606
- British National Grid northing
- 450,310
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
- E00140412
- Lower layer super output area
- Craven 006D · E01027582
- 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 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 3
- 605 m
Brooklands School
Community special school
- 629 m
Craven Pupil Referral Service
Pupil referral unit
- 968 m
Greatwood Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 999
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 381
- Anti social behaviour 222
- Shoplifting 101
- Criminal damage and arson 68
- Public order 60
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BD23 2 residents
- 8,641
Age bands in BD23 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- 1,369 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- 816 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- 2,327 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- 2,326 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
- 1,872 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
DYNELEY HOUSE SURGERY
NEWMARKET STREET, SKIPTON, BD23 2HZ
ODS code B82053
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 285 m
Waltonwrays Cemetery
BCT · Skipton
- 293 m
Waltonwrays Cemetery
BCT · Skipton
- 340 m
Bold Venture Garage
BCT · Skipton
- 360 m
Farm Croft
BCT · Skipton
- 376 m
Airebank Terrace
BCT · Skipton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Craven 006D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,610 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
999 published events cover 12 months, averaging 83 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.