Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Askwith Primary School is the nearest published school at 216 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LS21 2JH
Washburn & Birstwith · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Otley
- Ward
- Washburn & Birstwith
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon
- Postcode district
- LS21
- Postcode sector
- LS21 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LS21 2JH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LS
- Postcode district
- LS21
- Postcode sector
- LS21 2
- Latitude
- 53.930456
- Longitude
- -1.745645
- British National Grid easting
- 416,799
- British National Grid northing
- 448,287
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Washburn & Birstwith · E05014332
- Parish or community
- E04007308
- Westminster constituency
- Skipton and Ripon · E14001475
- Output area
- E00141236
- Lower layer super output area
- Harrogate 018D · E01027735
- Middle layer super output area
- Harrogate 018 · E02005778
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 LS21
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Vine Terrace, Askwith, Otley, LS21 2JH | 30 March 2021 | £151,000 |
| 2, Vine Terrace, Askwith, Otley, LS21 2JH | 15 October 2018 | £145,000 |
| 2, Vine Terrace, Askwith, Otley, LS21 2JH | 7 April 2006 | £151,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 216 m
Askwith Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Ghyll Royd School and Pre-School
Other independent school
- 2.3 km
Burley Oaks Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 4
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Public order 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- LS21 2 residents
- 7,422
0 female, 2 male
Age bands in LS21 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.1%
1,239 residents
681 residents
1,457 residents
2,251 residents
1,882 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LS21 2 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
5
within 5 km
GRANGE PARK SURGERY
GRANGE ROAD, BURLEY IN WHARFEDALE, ILKLEY, LS29 7HG
ODS code B83019
2.0 km
WESTGATE SURGERY
WESTGATE, OTLEY, LS21 3HD
ODS code B86029
4.2 km
CHEVIN MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 BRIDGE STREET, OTLEY, LS21 1BQ
ODS code B86032
4.3 km
ILKLEY & WHARFEDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPRINGS MEDICAL CENTRE, SPRINGS LANE, ILKLEY, LS29 8TQ
ODS code B83002
4.6 km
I G MEDICAL
ILKLEY MOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE, SPRINGS LANE, ILKLEY, LS29 8TH
ODS code B83624
4.7 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
- 0.3 miles
Askwith Nurseries
BCT · Askwith
- 0.3 miles
Old Vicarage
BCT · Askwith
- 0.9 miles
Whernside Lane
BCT · Burley-in-Wharfedale
- 1.0 miles
Whernside Lane
BCT · Burley-in-Wharfedale
- 1.0 miles
Summer Manor
BCT · Burley-in-Wharfedale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harrogate 018D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,239 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
11 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.