Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. West Cliff Primary School is the nearest published school at 269 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
YO21 3EN
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- YO21 3EN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- YO
- Postcode district
- YO21
- Postcode sector
- YO21 3
- Latitude
- 54.490874
- Longitude
- -0.620504
- British National Grid easting
- 489,457
- British National Grid northing
- 511,489
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
- E00141989
- Lower layer super output area
- Scarborough 001F · E01034972
- Middle layer super output area
- Scarborough 001 · E02005795
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
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 269 m
West Cliff Primary School
Academy converter
- 687 m
International Christian Language School for Functional English
Miscellaneous
- 962 m
Stakesby Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,181
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 487
- Anti social behaviour 219
- Shoplifting 124
- Criminal damage and arson 104
- Public order 71
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- YO21 3 residents
- 5,070
Age bands in YO21 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.3%
568 residents
381 residents
997 residents
1,542 residents
1,380 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.
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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
WHITBY GROUP PRACTICE
SPRING VALE MEDICAL CENTRE, RIEVAULX ROAD, WHITBY, YO21 1SD
ODS code B82017
577 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Royal Crescent
BCT · West Cliff
- 0.1 miles
Royal Crescent
BCT · West Cliff
- 0.1 miles
North Terrace
BCT · West Cliff
- 0.1 miles
North Terrace
BCT · West Cliff
- 0.2 miles
Havelock Place
BCT · West Cliff
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Scarborough 001F, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,481 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,181 published events cover 12 months, averaging 98.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 487 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.