Property market
The five-year median is £150,001 from 1 recorded sale in HG5 8FE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for North Yorkshire is £270,569 in June 2026, up 3.1% year on year.
HG5 8FE
Knaresborough West · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Knaresborough
- Ward
- Knaresborough West
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough
- Postcode district
- HG5
- Postcode sector
- HG5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HG5 8FE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2011
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HG
- Postcode district
- HG5
- Postcode sector
- HG5 8
- Latitude
- 54.007702
- Longitude
- -1.475413
- British National Grid easting
- 434,479
- British National Grid northing
- 456,979
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Knaresborough West · E05014289
- Parish or community
- E04007372
- Westminster constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough · E14001269
- Output area
- E00140936
- Lower layer super output area
- Harrogate 009C · E01027673
- Middle layer super output area
- Harrogate 009 · E02005769
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 HG5
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Corner Cottage, Harrogate Road, Knaresborough, HG5 8FE | 22 September 2021 | £150,001 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 703 m
St Mary's Primary School Knaresborough, A Voluntary Catholic Academy
Academy converter
- 821 m
Knaresborough St John's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 991 m
King James's School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 918
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 388
- Anti social behaviour 178
- Criminal damage and arson 112
- Public order 48
- Other theft 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- HG5 8 residents
- 4,967
27 female, 21 male
Age bands in HG5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.6%
605 residents
442 residents
913 residents
1,628 residents
1,510 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HG5 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+
- 96.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 96.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 96.9%
- 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
9
within 5 km
BEECH HOUSE SURGERY
1 ASH TREE ROAD, KNARESBOROUGH, HG5 0UB
ODS code B82069
716 m
STOCKWELL ROAD SURGERY
21 STOCKWELL ROAD, KNARESBOROUGH, HG5 0JY
ODS code B82067
743 m
EASTGATE MEDICAL GROUP
31B YORK PLACE, KNARESBOROUGH, HG5 0AD
ODS code B82060
832 m
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
14 WETHERBY ROAD, HARROGATE, HG2 7SA
ODS code B82014
3.3 km
STRAYSIDE HEALTH
MOWBRAY SQUARE MEDICAL CENTRE, MYRTLE SQUARE, HARROGATE, HG1 5AR
ODS code B82016
3.8 km
THE SPA SURGERY
MOWBRAY SQUARE MEDICAL CENTRE, MYRTLE SQUARE, HARROGATE, HG1 5AR
ODS code B82027
3.8 km
CHURCH AVENUE MEDICAL GROUP
THE SURGERY, 54 CHURCH AVENUE, HARROGATE, HG1 4HG
ODS code B82059
4.0 km
MOSS HEALTHCARE HARROGATE
28 KINGS ROAD, HARROGATE, HG1 5JP
ODS code B82013
4.6 km
THE LEEDS ROAD PRACTICE
49-51 LEEDS ROAD, HARROGATE, HG2 8AY
ODS code B82012
5.0 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
High Bridge
BCT · Knaresborough
- 0.1 miles
High Bridge
BCT · Knaresborough
- 0.2 miles
Knaresborough Rail Station
RSE · Knaresborough
- 0.2 miles
Henshaws
BCT · Knaresborough
- 0.2 miles
Knaresborough Rail Station
RLY · Knaresborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harrogate 009C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,513 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 5
- 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
Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Mary's Primary School Knaresborough, A Voluntary Catholic Academy is the nearest published school at 703 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
918 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 388 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.