Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stakesby Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 718 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
YO21 1YU
Whitby West · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whitby West
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby
- Postcode district
- YO21
- Postcode sector
- YO21 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- YO21 1YU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- YO
- Postcode district
- YO21
- Postcode sector
- YO21 1
- Latitude
- 54.478761
- Longitude
- -0.635821
- British National Grid easting
- 488,491
- British National Grid northing
- 510,122
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Whitby West · E05014337
- Parish or community
- E04007706
- Westminster constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby · E14001461
- Output area
- E00141825
- Lower layer super output area
- Scarborough 003A · E01027838
- Middle layer super output area
- Scarborough 003 · E02005797
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 YO21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 718 m
Stakesby Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 823 m
Whitby School
Community school
- 1.1 km
International Christian Language School for Functional English
Miscellaneous
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 818
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 328
- Anti social behaviour 153
- Shoplifting 104
- Criminal damage and arson 67
- Public order 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- YO21 1 residents
- 5,750
Age bands in YO21 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 32%
642 residents
491 residents
985 residents
1,784 residents
1,834 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
WHITBY GROUP PRACTICE
SPRING VALE MEDICAL CENTRE, RIEVAULX ROAD, WHITBY, YO21 1SD
ODS code B82017
1.1 km
SLEIGHTS AND SANDSEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHURCHFIELD SURGERY, IBURNDALE LANE, SLEIGHTS, WHITBY, YO22 5DP
ODS code B82101
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Resolution Way
BCT · High Stakesby
- 0.1 miles
Resolution Way
BCT · High Stakesby
- 0.2 miles
Mayfield Road
BCT · High Stakesby
- 0.2 miles
Mayfield Road
BCT · High Stakesby
- 0.2 miles
Ruswarp Lane
BCT · Low Stakesby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Scarborough 003A, 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
26,821 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
818 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 328 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.