Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 5 secondary schools. Oatlands Infant School is the nearest published school at 421 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HG2 8BA
Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Harrogate
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough
- Postcode district
- HG2
- Postcode sector
- HG2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HG2 8BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HG
- Postcode district
- HG2
- Postcode sector
- HG2 8
- Latitude
- 53.981740
- Longitude
- -1.535178
- British National Grid easting
- 430,581
- British National Grid northing
- 454,063
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone · E05014324
- Parish or community
- E04013500
- Westminster constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough · E14001269
- Output area
- E00141225
- Lower layer super output area
- Harrogate 019E · E01027732
- Middle layer super output area
- Harrogate 019 · E02005779
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 HG2
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Waverley Crescent, Harrogate, HG2 8BA | 6 July 2012 | £442,500 |
| 1, Waverley Crescent, Harrogate, HG2 8BA | 28 February 2012 | £349,950 |
| 2, Waverley Crescent, Harrogate, HG2 8BA | 26 November 2010 | £610,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 5
- 421 m
Oatlands Infant School
Academy converter
- 762 m
Harrogate Grammar School
Academy converter
- 792 m
Oatlands Community Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,811
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 602
- Anti social behaviour 326
- Shoplifting 316
- Other theft 136
- Public order 110
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- HG2 8 residents
- 8,250
12 female, 11 male
Age bands in HG2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
1,518 residents
816 residents
1,674 residents
2,564 residents
1,978 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HG2 8 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
- 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
THE LEEDS ROAD PRACTICE
49-51 LEEDS ROAD, HARROGATE, HG2 8AY
ODS code B82012
140 m
MOSS HEALTHCARE HARROGATE
28 KINGS ROAD, HARROGATE, HG1 5JP
ODS code B82013
1.6 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
14 WETHERBY ROAD, HARROGATE, HG2 7SA
ODS code B82014
1.6 km
STRAYSIDE HEALTH
MOWBRAY SQUARE MEDICAL CENTRE, MYRTLE SQUARE, HARROGATE, HG1 5AR
ODS code B82016
1.7 km
THE SPA SURGERY
MOWBRAY SQUARE MEDICAL CENTRE, MYRTLE SQUARE, HARROGATE, HG1 5AR
ODS code B82027
1.7 km
CHURCH AVENUE MEDICAL GROUP
THE SURGERY, 54 CHURCH AVENUE, HARROGATE, HG1 4HG
ODS code B82059
2.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St Mark's Church
BCT · Oatlands
- 0.1 miles
St Mark's Church
BCT · Oatlands
- 0.1 miles
St George's Rd Bottom
BCT · Oatlands
- 0.1 miles
St George's Rd Bottom
BCT · Oatlands
- 0.1 miles
Tewit Well Ave
BCT · Oatlands
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harrogate 019E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,989 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
1,811 published events cover 12 months, averaging 150.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 602 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.