Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Aspin Park Academy is the nearest published school at 518 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HG5 8WL
Knaresborough West · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 8WL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 2003
- Terminated
- 1 June 2004
- Postcode area
- HG
- Postcode district
- HG5
- Postcode sector
- HG5 8
- Latitude
- 54.001247
- Longitude
- -1.446783
- British National Grid easting
- 436,361
- British National Grid northing
- 456,275
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
- E00140929
- Lower layer super output area
- Harrogate 012B · E01027671
- Middle layer super output area
- Harrogate 012 · E02005772
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
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 518 m
Aspin Park Academy
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- 1.0 km
King James's School
Community school
- 1.3 km
The Forest School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 653
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 271
- Anti social behaviour 124
- Criminal damage and arson 55
- Shoplifting 46
- Other theft 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HG5 8 residents
- 4,967
Age bands in HG5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.9%
- 605 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- 442 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.9%
- 913 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- 1,628 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 29.6%
- 1,510 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
EASTGATE MEDICAL GROUP
31B YORK PLACE, KNARESBOROUGH, HG5 0AD
ODS code B82060
1.2 km
BEECH HOUSE SURGERY
1 ASH TREE ROAD, KNARESBOROUGH, HG5 0UB
ODS code B82069
1.6 km
STOCKWELL ROAD SURGERY
21 STOCKWELL ROAD, KNARESBOROUGH, HG5 0JY
ODS code B82067
1.8 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
14 WETHERBY ROAD, HARROGATE, HG2 7SA
ODS code B82014
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 172 m
Grimbald Bridge
BCT · Knaresborough
- 186 m
Grimbald Bridge
BCT · Knaresborough
- 235 m
St James Retail Park
BCT · Knaresborough
- 243 m
St James Retail Pk
BCT · Knaresborough
- 281 m
Wetherby Road
BCT · Knaresborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harrogate 012B, 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
33,064 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
653 published events cover 12 months, averaging 54 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 271 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.