39 addresses across 6 postcodes (YO1), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45801691.
Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £215,000 across 3 sales.
Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (D: 3, E: 5, F: 1, G: 2).
Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in York costs £2,287 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 88% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is York, about 910 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rest Garden, is about 130 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 12 to 16 m above sea level.
Noise: 22 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Jorvik Gillygate Practice, about 110 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 23% of households owned their home and 62% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 1,533 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.
Sales on this street
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.
Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 52 m².
Most common: Flat (11). Built: before 1900 (11). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (9).
Council tax
What each band costs in York in 2026-27: Band D £2,287 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
£1,525
£1,779
£2,033
£2,287
£2,795
£3,304
£3,812
£4,574
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (41% of about 2,930 homes).
A41%
B24%
C13%
D12%
E5%
G3%
F2%
H<1%
Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; 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, Central Historic Core Conservation Area (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
Listed buildings on or by this street: 22.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): HMO.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
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 on or by this street. 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.
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
16 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
Postcode
Planning zone
Addresses at high / medium / low risk
Groundwater
YO1 9UP
not in 2 or 3
1 / 0 / 3
unlikely
YO1 8RU
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
YO1 9UT
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
YO1 7LZ
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
YO1 7NP
not in 2 or 3
0 / 1 / 0
unlikely
YO1 8NB
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
Sources: 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.
The street's 39 addresses are between 12 m and 16 m above sea level (13 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
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.
Availability by postcode (% of premises)
Postcode
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)
Gigabit
Below 10 Mbit/s
YO1 7LZ
100%
96%
96%
0%
YO1 7NP
100%
100%
100%
0%
YO1 8NB
100%
100%
100%
0%
YO1 8RU
100%
88%
88%
0%
YO1 9UP
100%
100%
100%
0%
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 middle of the street, 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.
Nearest
Distance
Railway stations
York 10 million journeys in 2024–25
910 m (0.6 miles)
Poppleton 120,000 journeys in 2024–25
4.9 km (3.1 miles)
Hammerton 57,000 journeys in 2024–25
14.1 km (8.7 miles)
Bus stops
29 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 77 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stonebow Tour Bus York
60 m
Car parks
13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Q-Park Shambles
200 m
EV charging points
6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest E.ON Drive Public Charging Station
420 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights
Leeds Bradford Airport LBA
39.6 km (25 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. 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.
Nearest
Distance
GP surgeries
2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jorvik Gillygate Practice
110 m
Pharmacies
8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots
310 m
NHS dentists
14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Unit C (Dental Surgery)
110 m
Hospital
York Hospital
1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police station
North Yorkshire Police Mill House
410 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines
4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 47 Parliament Street Halifax
60 m
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 middle of the street 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.
Nearest
Distance
Park or garden
7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rest Garden 1,590 m²
130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)
Museum Gardens 4.0 ha
520 m (0.3 miles)
Play area
2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed290 m²
420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field
Unnamed3.4 ha
1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments
Scarcroft Road Allotments 3.8 ha
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 8.0 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Parish Room of St Crux and Wall Attached to North West Corner, a listed building (Grade II*), 20 m. 932 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 63 of them Grade I and 144 of them Grade II*.
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 middle of the street. 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)
Pollutant
Here
UK limit
WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
11.1
40
10
Fine particles (PM2.5)
6.2
20
5
Particles (PM10)
10.5
40
15
All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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)
Level
Road traffic
Railways
60 to 64
2
0
55 to 59
20
0
Under 55
17
39
22 of the street's 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.
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 York: see them on the York page.
Nearest schools
Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.
School
Phase
Ages
Distance
Inspection
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman Catholic
Primary
3–11
590 m (0.4 miles)
Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fishergate Primary School
Primary
3–11
830 m (0.5 miles)
No published inspection
St George's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman Catholic
Primary
3–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
No published inspection
Park Grove Primary Academy
Primary
5–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Scarcroft Primary School
Primary
4–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Lawrence's Church of England Primary School
Primary
3–11
1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Tang Hall Primary Academy
Primary
2–11
1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints Catholic School York Roman Catholic
Secondary
11–18
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Millthorpe School
Secondary
11–16
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary
4–11
1.4 km (0.9 miles)
No published inspection
St Paul's Nursery School
Nursery
2–5
1.4 km (0.9 miles)
No published inspection
Haxby Road Primary Academy
Primary
2–11
1.5 km (0.9 miles)
No published inspection
Food hygiene ratings nearby
Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.
Business
Type
Distance
Rating
Rated
Pizza Hut Restaurants - Dine In YO1 9UP
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
20 m
5 Very good
19 Mar 2024
Subway YO1 9UP
Takeaway/sandwich shop
20 m
4 Good
9 Feb 2026
The Golden Fleece YO1 9UP
Pub/bar/nightclub
20 m
5 Very good
10 Mar 2026
Greggs YO1 9UP
Retailers - other
20 m
5 Very good
25 Jul 2024
Yorks Yummy Chicken YO1 9UP
Takeaway/sandwich shop
20 m
5 Very good
28 Apr 2026
York Gin Company YO1 9UP
Retailers - other
20 m
5 Very good
15 Nov 2019
Trio Patisserie YO1 8BL
Takeaway/sandwich shop
30 m
5 Very good
25 Feb 2026
No 1 4 News YO1 8BL
Retailers - other
30 m
Exempt
Midnight Fryer YO1 8BL
Mobile caterer
30 m
5 Very good
31 Mar 2026
Black Wheat Club YO1 9TF
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
30 m
5 Very good
10 Mar 2025
Florian Poirot YO1 7LZ
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
40 m
4 Good
27 Nov 2024
Trio Mezze Tapas Bar YO1 8BL
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
40 m
3 Generally satisfactory
2 Sep 2025
Cat In The Wall YO1 7NP
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
60 m
5 Very good
26 Mar 2026
Gold Cafe YO1 9TA
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
60 m
4 Good
25 Feb 2025
Co-op YO1 7NP
Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets
60 m
5 Very good
8 Oct 2025
Crime within 250 m
Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.
1,533 recorded crimes by category
Category
Crimes
Shoplifting
488
Anti-social behaviour
376
Violence and sexual offences
337
Public order
81
Other theft
60
Criminal damage and arson
48
Bicycle theft
38
Drugs
24
Theft from the person
22
Robbery
18
Possession of weapons
16
Burglary
14
Vehicle crime
8
Other crime
3
Most of these are attached to: On or near (507); On or near Shopping Area (336); On or near Merchantgate (89); On or near Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate (78); On or near King'S Square (64).
People and work
Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 297 residents in 166 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 street
England
Median age
32
40
Children under 15
7%
17%
Aged 65 and over
11%
18%
Homes
Around this street
England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)
23%
61%
Owned outright
11%
33%
Shared ownership
1%
1%
Social rented
14%
17%
Private rented
62%
21%
Work and commuting
Around this street
England
Adults (16 and over) in work
65%
57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)
7%
6%
Retired (of adults)
12%
22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)
under 1%
4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)
47%
32%
Travel to work by car or van
18%
48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram
1%
4%
By any public transport, including bus
4%
8%
On foot or by bicycle
26%
10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)
77%
65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away
12%
8%
Education and languages
Around this street
England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)
62%
34%
No qualifications
5%
18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification
3%
5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)
86%
91%
Cannot speak English well or at all
under 1%
2%
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 7 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.
What has changed
Food hygiene ratings Bee’s Khraw (takeaway/sandwich shop, YO1 9PB) is no longer listed; it was rated 3 Generally satisfactory found 30 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Foro (restaurant/cafe/canteen, YO1 9TF) is no longer listed; it was rated 1 Major improvement necessary found 30 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Ruby Rae's Country Bar (pub/bar/nightclub, YO1 6JG) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 13 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings The Watergate Inn (restaurant/cafe/canteen, YO1 9TJ) re-inspected, still 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Baileys Cafe & Tea Rooms (restaurant/cafe/canteen, YO1 7DT) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 22 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.
Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.
How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.