Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Keeble Gateway Academy is the nearest published school at 915 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
YO7 1JR
Sowerby & Topcliffe · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Thirsk
- Ward
- Sowerby & Topcliffe
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton
- Postcode district
- YO7
- Postcode sector
- YO7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- YO7 1JR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2011
- Postcode area
- YO
- Postcode district
- YO7
- Postcode sector
- YO7 1
- Latitude
- 54.219761
- Longitude
- -1.334737
- British National Grid easting
- 443,477
- British National Grid northing
- 480,651
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Sowerby & Topcliffe · E05014322
- Parish or community
- E04007263
- Westminster constituency
- Thirsk and Malton · E14001544
- Output area
- E00140650
- Lower layer super output area
- Hambleton 009F · E01034960
- Middle layer super output area
- Hambleton 009 · E02005758
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
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Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 121, Front Street, Sowerby, Thirsk, YO7 1JR | 13 August 2008 | £185,000 |
| 117, Front Street, Sowerby, Thirsk, YO7 1JR | 19 August 2004 | £107,500 |
| 121, Front Street, Sowerby, Thirsk, YO7 1JR | 3 November 2003 | £126,800 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 915 m
Keeble Gateway Academy
Free schools
- 920 m
Thirsk School & Sixth Form College
Community school
- 1.1 km
Sowerby Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 436
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 169
- Anti social behaviour 105
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Shoplifting 36
- Public order 26
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- YO7 1 residents
- 8,887
Age bands in YO7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.7%
1,279 residents
894 residents
2,033 residents
2,685 residents
2,507 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
THIRSK DOCTORS SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, CHAPEL STREET, THIRSK, YO7 1LG
ODS code B82049
1.4 km
LAMBERT MEDICAL CENTRE
CHAPEL STREET, THIRSK, YO7 1LU
ODS code B82042
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sandholmes Lane
BCT · Sowerby
- 0.1 miles
Sandholmes Lane
BCT · Sowerby
- 0.3 miles
Crown & Anchor
BCT · Sowerby
- 0.3 miles
Crown & Anchor
BCT · Sowerby
- 0.3 miles
Crown & Anchor Car Park
BCT · Sowerby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hambleton 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,685 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
436 published events cover 12 months, averaging 36.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 169 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.