Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 4 secondary schools. The Woodlands Academy is the nearest published school at 237 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
YO12 6QP
Woodlands · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Woodlands
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby
- Postcode district
- YO12
- Postcode sector
- YO12 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- YO12 6QP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- YO
- Postcode district
- YO12
- Postcode sector
- YO12 6
- Latitude
- 54.281138
- Longitude
- -0.433839
- British National Grid easting
- 502,066
- British National Grid northing
- 488,407
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Woodlands · E05014338
- Parish or community
- E04013503
- Westminster constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby · E14001461
- Output area
- E00142006
- Lower layer super output area
- Scarborough 009F · E01027873
- Middle layer super output area
- Scarborough 009 · E02005803
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 YO12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 4
- 237 m
The Woodlands Academy
Academy special converter
- 535 m
Graham School
Academy sponsor led
- 652 m
Barrowcliff School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,085
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 864
- Anti social behaviour 358
- Shoplifting 253
- Criminal damage and arson 168
- Public order 108
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- YO12 6 residents
- 11,132
Age bands in YO12 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.3%
1,840 residents
1,089 residents
2,259 residents
2,918 residents
3,040 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
BROOK SQUARE SURGERY
TRAFALGAR HOUSE, 41-44 TRAFALGAR STREET WEST, SCARBOROUGH, YO12 7AS
ODS code B82088
1.6 km
HAXBY GROUP SCARBOROUGH
LAWRENCE HOUSE MED CTR, 1A BELGRAVE CRESCENT, SCARBOROUGH, YO11 1UB
ODS code B82038
1.6 km
HACKNESS ROAD SURGERY
19 HACKNESS ROAD, NEWBY, SCARBOROUGH, YO12 5SD
ODS code B82106
1.7 km
SCARBOROUGH MEDICAL GROUP
DANES DYKE SURGERY, 463A SCALBY ROAD, NEWBY, SCARBOROUGH, YO12 6UA
ODS code B82054
1.8 km
CASTLE HEALTH CENTRE
3-4 YORK PLACE, SCARBOROUGH, YO11 2NP
ODS code Y02669
2.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hovingham Drive
BCT · Throxenby
- 0.1 miles
Scarborough Hospital
BCT · Throxenby
- 0.1 miles
Hospital
BCT · Throxenby
- 0.1 miles
Scarborough Hospital
BCT · Throxenby
- 0.2 miles
Woodlands School hospital entrance
BCT · Throxenby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Scarborough 009F, 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
22,418 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
2,085 published events cover 12 months, averaging 173.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 864 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.