Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Kettlewell Primary School is the nearest published school at 553 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BD23 5RW
Wharfedale · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Skipton
- Ward
- Wharfedale
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon
- Postcode district
- BD23
- Postcode sector
- BD23 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BD23 5RW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BD
- Postcode district
- BD23
- Postcode sector
- BD23 5
- Latitude
- 54.147502
- Longitude
- -2.047719
- British National Grid easting
- 396,981
- British National Grid northing
- 472,408
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Wharfedale · E05014335
- Parish or community
- E04007099
- Westminster constituency
- Skipton and Ripon · E14001475
- Output area
- E00140432
- Lower layer super output area
- Craven 009A · E01027585
- Middle layer super output area
- Craven 009 · E02007041
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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Swale Cottage, Cam Lodge Lane, Kettlewell, Skipton, BD23 5RW | 22 December 2004 | £230,000 |
| Amerdale, Cam Lodge Lane, Kettlewell, Skipton, BD23 5RW | 6 September 2004 | £225,000 |
| Skirfare Cottage, Cam Lodge Lane, Kettlewell, Skipton, BD23 5RW | 11 September 1998 | £83,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 553 m
Kettlewell Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Other theft 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- BD23 5 residents
- 3,234
3 female, 2 male
Age bands in BD23 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 13%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 38.4%
341 residents
245 residents
433 residents
1,033 residents
1,280 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BD23 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Kettlewell
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Kettlewell
- 0.1 miles
Bluebell Hotel
BCT · Kettlewell
- 0.1 miles
Bluebell Hotel
BCT · Kettlewell
- 0.1 miles
Carpark
BCT · Kettlewell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Craven 009A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,557 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.