Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Leyburn Primary School is the nearest published school at 729 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL8 5YR
Leyburn & Middleham · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Leyburn & Middleham
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton
- Postcode district
- DL8
- Postcode sector
- DL8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL8 5YR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL8
- Postcode sector
- DL8 5
- Latitude
- 54.314330
- Longitude
- -1.812105
- British National Grid easting
- 412,322
- British National Grid northing
- 490,986
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Leyburn & Middleham · E05014290
- Parish or community
- E04007497
- Westminster constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton · E14001444
- Output area
- E00189849
- Lower layer super output area
- Richmondshire 006F · E01033185
- Middle layer super output area
- Richmondshire 006 · E02005787
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 DL8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 729 m
Leyburn Primary School
Academy converter
- 779 m
Wensleydale School
Community school
- 2.2 km
Spennithorne Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 73
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 28
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Other theft 6
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Burglary 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DL8 5 residents
- 3,879
Age bands in DL8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.9%
391 residents
330 residents
583 residents
1,177 residents
1,391 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
LEYBURN MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRENTWOOD, LEYBURN, DL8 5EP
ODS code B82078
1.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Dale Grove
BCT · Leyburn
- 0.5 miles
Mount Drive
BCT · Leyburn
- 0.5 miles
Leyburn (Wensleydale Railway)
MET · Leyburn
- 0.6 miles
Wenslydale School
BCT · Leyburn
- 0.6 miles
Opp York Dales Park
BCT · Harmby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Richmondshire 006F, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,127 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
73 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 28 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.