HG1 5LZ North Yorkshire

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate. Region: Yorkshire and The Humber.

Streets

House prices and rents in North Yorkshire

A typical home in North Yorkshire cost £270,080 in August 2026, 1.7% more than a year before. That is 12% more than five years earlier and 32% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£431,122
Semi-detached£269,527
Terraced£219,836
Flat or maisonette£142,783
Bought by a first-time buyer£218,075

Private renters in North Yorkshire paid £852 a month on average in September 2026, 2.3% more than a year before. That is 24% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£595
Two bedrooms£771
Three bedrooms£945
Four or more bedrooms£1,361

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Council tax

What each band costs in North Yorkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,544 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,696£1,979£2,262£2,544£3,110£3,675£4,241£5,089

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band E (21% of about 1,070 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Harrogate (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the postcode, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Jenny Field Drive North Yorkshire 17/04644/FUL Battery storage 5 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jan 2018 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

15 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode spilled 265 times, for 445 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Oak Beck and Coppice Beck, Hookstone Beck (Nidd Cat).

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Harrogate Hydro Csos Yorkshire Water Oak Beck and Coppice Beck 2 1 310 m
Harrogate Hydro Csos Yorkshire Water Oak Beck and Coppice Beck 26 25 570 m (0.4 miles)
Harrogate Hydro Csos Yorkshire Water Oak Beck and Coppice Beck 27 62 600 m (0.4 miles)
Harrogate Hydro Csos Yorkshire Water Oak Beck and Coppice Beck 8 4 690 m (0.4 miles)
Harrogate Hydro Csos Yorkshire Water; monitored 68% of the year Oak Beck and Coppice Beck 12 14 720 m (0.4 miles)
Harrogate Hydro Csos Yorkshire Water Oak Beck and Coppice Beck 2 1 730 m (0.5 miles)
Harrogate Hydro Csos Yorkshire Water Oak Beck and Coppice Beck 34 44 730 m (0.5 miles)
Harrogate Hydro Csos Yorkshire Water Oak Beck and Coppice Beck 49 108 740 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 19,478 kWh of it on average in 2024, 57% more than the district's 12,398 kWh, and 1,618 kWh of electricity, 50% less than the district's 3,216 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is HG1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 7 addresses are between 117 m and 118 m above sea level (118 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsHarrogate 1.9 million journeys in 2024–25270 m
Hornbeam Park 458,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Starbeck 267,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Asda Harrogate210 m
Bus or coach stationBus Stn Stand 4 Harrogate280 m
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jubilee Multi Storey Car Park540 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points13 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park View Car Park100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA16.5 km (10 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Strayside Health Good Jun 2016360 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harrogate Dental And Implant Clinic140 m
HospitalNHS Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire And The Humber550 m (0.3 miles)
Care homes24 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hyde Park House Outstanding Sep 2017110 m
Police stationHarrogate Police Station260 m
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest M&S ATM360 m

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 150 m from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Partou Little Dragons Day Nursery & Pre-School HG1 5LB Full day care 73 Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 150 m
Harcourt Day Nursery HG1 5NL Full day care 47 Good (Aug 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 220 m
Kmec Harrogate - Kip McGrath HG1 5RD Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 360 m
ACTAcademy UK & PERFORMATOTS HG1 1JZ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 530 m (0.3 miles)
Partou Playaway Day Nursery & Pre-School HG1 4AD Full day care 72 Nov 2025: Expected standard in 2 areas, Needs attention in 4 560 m (0.3 miles)
St Peter's Funclub HG1 1JA Out-of-school day care 60 Not inspected yet 600 m (0.4 miles)
Premier Education Grove Road WAC HG1 5EP Out-of-school day care 23 Apr 2026: Expected standard in 4 areas 700 m (0.4 miles)
ART CAMP @ St Robert's HG1 4AP Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Northern Performance Academy & Performatots HG1 4TA Full day care 60 Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Total Sports @ Harrogate Ladies College HG1 2QG Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 205 childminders and 32 home childcarers (nannies) in North Yorkshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 670 m²330 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 73 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 560 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 3,590 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,690 m²730 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 74 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 29 and 30, Regent Parade, a listed building (Grade II*), 480 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 126 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
29 and 30, Regent ParadeListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Harrogate War MemorialListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) west
1 to 4, West ParkListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Royal HallListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) west
Valley GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Hookstone WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Harlow MoorWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Irongate Bridge ReservoirLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Red Cat HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) north
Knox HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Rudding BottomsValley3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.8205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 5567

1 of the postcode's 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 250 m of the postcode's centre. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

12 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 10 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a pedestrian; 3 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. 42% happened in the dark, and 50% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202120
202210
202330
202421
202541
The most recent 10 of 12
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
2 Dec 2025 15:18 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
23 Sep 2025 08:40 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
14 Sep 2025 18:02 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
12 Mar 2025 18:49 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
1 Nov 2024 17:00 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
28 Jul 2024 10:20 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
15 Dec 2023 17:11 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
3 May 2023 04:41 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
9 Mar 2023 17:09 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
17 Dec 2022 13:25 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for North Yorkshire: see them on the North Yorkshire page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 310 residents in 167 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age5140
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented35%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van34%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)54%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Park View.