Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. Strive for Education is the nearest published school at 496 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HG3 3LR
Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough
- Postcode district
- HG3
- Postcode sector
- HG3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HG3 3LR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- 1 December 1984
- Postcode area
- HG
- Postcode district
- HG3
- Postcode sector
- HG3 3
- Latitude
- 53.994630
- Longitude
- -1.528644
- British National Grid easting
- 431,000
- British National Grid northing
- 455,500
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
- E00140840
- Lower layer super output area
- Harrogate 019A · E01027656
- 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 HG3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 6
- 496 m
Strive for Education
Other independent special school
- 707 m
Harrogate High School
Academy converter
- 785 m
Harrogate, Grove Road Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,182
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,142
- Anti social behaviour 498
- Shoplifting 468
- Other theft 211
- Criminal damage and arson 211
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HG3 3 residents
- 4,592
Age bands in HG3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.7%
706 residents
401 residents
863 residents
1,641 residents
1,450 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
STRAYSIDE HEALTH
MOWBRAY SQUARE MEDICAL CENTRE, MYRTLE SQUARE, HARROGATE, HG1 5AR
ODS code B82016
208 m
THE SPA SURGERY
MOWBRAY SQUARE MEDICAL CENTRE, MYRTLE SQUARE, HARROGATE, HG1 5AR
ODS code B82027
208 m
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
14 WETHERBY ROAD, HARROGATE, HG2 7SA
ODS code B82014
836 m
MOSS HEALTHCARE HARROGATE
28 KINGS ROAD, HARROGATE, HG1 5JP
ODS code B82013
893 m
CHURCH AVENUE MEDICAL GROUP
THE SURGERY, 54 CHURCH AVENUE, HARROGATE, HG1 4HG
ODS code B82059
1.4 km
THE LEEDS ROAD PRACTICE
49-51 LEEDS ROAD, HARROGATE, HG2 8AY
ODS code B82012
1.6 km
BEECH HOUSE SURGERY
1 ASH TREE ROAD, KNARESBOROUGH, HG5 0UB
ODS code B82069
4.5 km
STOCKWELL ROAD SURGERY
21 STOCKWELL ROAD, KNARESBOROUGH, HG5 0JY
ODS code B82067
4.5 km
EASTGATE MEDICAL GROUP
31B YORK PLACE, KNARESBOROUGH, HG5 0AD
ODS code B82060
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mowbray Health Centre
BCT · Harrogate
- 0.2 miles
North Park Rd
BCT · Harrogate
- 0.2 miles
Westmoreland St
BCT · Harrogate
- 0.2 miles
North Park Rd
BCT · Harrogate
- 0.2 miles
Mowbray Square
BCT · Harrogate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harrogate 019A, 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
25,937 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,182 published events cover 12 months, averaging 265.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,142 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.