Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 5 secondary schools. Strive for Education is the nearest published school at 446 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HG1 1BA
Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Harrogate
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough
- Postcode district
- HG1
- Postcode sector
- HG1 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HG1 1BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HG
- Postcode district
- HG1
- Postcode sector
- HG1 1
- Latitude
- 53.995557
- Longitude
- -1.538335
- British National Grid easting
- 430,364
- British National Grid northing
- 455,599
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate · E05014331
- Parish or community
- E04013500
- Westminster constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough · E14001269
- Output area
- E00140975
- Lower layer super output area
- Harrogate 015E · E01027678
- Middle layer super output area
- Harrogate 015 · E02005775
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 HG1
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mercer House, 8, Bower Road, Harrogate, HG1 1BA | 31 October 2001 | £140,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 5
- 446 m
Strive for Education
Other independent special school
- 598 m
Harrogate Language Academy
Miscellaneous
- 618 m
St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,068
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,057
- Shoplifting 489
- Anti social behaviour 479
- Other theft 213
- Criminal damage and arson 191
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- HG1 1 residents
- 1,126
3 female, 5 male
Age bands in HG1 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 7.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 16%
102 residents
190 residents
487 residents
403 residents
225 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HG1 1 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+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
MOSS HEALTHCARE HARROGATE
28 KINGS ROAD, HARROGATE, HG1 5JP
ODS code B82013
251 m
STRAYSIDE HEALTH
MOWBRAY SQUARE MEDICAL CENTRE, MYRTLE SQUARE, HARROGATE, HG1 5AR
ODS code B82016
567 m
THE SPA SURGERY
MOWBRAY SQUARE MEDICAL CENTRE, MYRTLE SQUARE, HARROGATE, HG1 5AR
ODS code B82027
567 m
CHURCH AVENUE MEDICAL GROUP
THE SURGERY, 54 CHURCH AVENUE, HARROGATE, HG1 4HG
ODS code B82059
1.2 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
14 WETHERBY ROAD, HARROGATE, HG2 7SA
ODS code B82014
1.5 km
THE LEEDS ROAD PRACTICE
49-51 LEEDS ROAD, HARROGATE, HG2 8AY
ODS code B82012
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCT · Harrogate
- 0.1 miles
Hgte Bus Stn Stand 13
BCT · Harrogate
- 0.1 miles
Hgte Bus Stn St 12
BCT · Harrogate
- 0.1 miles
Hgte Bus Stn Stand 11
BCT · Harrogate
- 0.1 miles
Hgte Bus Stn Stand 10
BCT · Harrogate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harrogate 015E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,730 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
3,068 published events cover 12 months, averaging 255.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,057 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.