Swinegate York

38 addresses across 3 postcodes (YO1), about 100 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 45801815.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2017 the median was £485,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: 5 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 67% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is York, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, College Green, is about 210 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: It is about 17 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Jorvik Gillygate Practice, about 270 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 37% of households owned their home and 52% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,833 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20171£485,000£485,000£485,000
20131£206,000£206,000£206,000
20031£133,000£133,000£133,000
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Oct 201723 - 25 YO1 8AZOther£5,350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Aug 2017FLAT 1, BAILEY COURT YO1 8AZFlat or maisonette£485,000Leasehold.
7 Jan 2014UNITS 3 - 4, 20 - 24 YO1 8AZOther£100,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Nov 2013FLAT 1, BAILEY COURT YO1 8AZFlat or maisonette£206,000Leasehold.
10 Dec 200331 YO1 8AZTerraced£133,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 (39% of about 2,870 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 28.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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 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

  • 7 October 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 28 September 2026 to 10 October 2026: NORTHERN POWERGRID (NORTHEAST) PLC, New service connection, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (major works)
  • 7 September 2026 to 9 September 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 0 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
YO1 8AZnot in 2 or 3 2 / 3 / 0 unlikely
YO1 8BGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO1 8BEnot 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.

© 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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 17 m above sea level.

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)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
YO1 8AZ78%78%78%0%
YO1 8BE100%100%100%0%
YO1 8BG67%67%67%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.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsYork 10 million journeys in 2024–25800 m (0.5 miles)
Poppleton 120,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Hammerton 57,000 journeys in 2024–2513.9 km (8.6 miles)
Bus stops27 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 83 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stonebow York220 m
Car parks11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Q-Park Shambles390 m
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest E.ON Drive Public Charging Station380 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA39.5 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.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jorvik Gillygate Practice270 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots220 m
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Orthokind90 m
HospitalYork Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationNorth Yorkshire Police Mill House370 m
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 47 Parliament Street Halifax190 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest College Green 800 m²210 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Museum Gardens 4.0 ha340 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 290 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.4 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsScarcroft Road Allotments 3.8 ha1.2 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 The Roman Bath Public House, a listed building (Grade II*), 40 m. 951 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 63 of them Grade I and 145 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Roman Bath Public HouseListed building, Grade II*40 m
7, St Sampsons SquareListed building, Grade II*50 m south-west
81, Low PetergateListed building, Grade II*60 m north
79, Low PetergateListed building, Grade II*60 m north
South angle tower of Roman fortressScheduled monument150 m south
Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 StonegateScheduled monument170 m north-west
St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre RoyalScheduled monument280 m north-west
Museum Gardens, YorkRegistered park or garden, Grade II470 m (0.3 miles) west
Rowntree ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wormald's CutLake or reservoir490 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Brownie DykeLake or reservoir890 m (0.6 miles) south
Clifton Long ReachLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Low PlantationWood2 km (1.3 miles) east
Heslington HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Rawcliffe IngsCliff or slope3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-west

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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)11.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 553838

None of the street's 38 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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), 3 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Park Grove Primary AcademyPrimary5–11880 m (0.5 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 SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fishergate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St George's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Catholic School York Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Tang Hall Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Paul's Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Haxby Road Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Lawrence's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Millthorpe SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Bulgogi YO1 8AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m4 Good30 Jan 2026
Coto YO1 8AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good29 Apr 2024
Tanvis Indian Cuisine YO1 8AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 mAwaiting inspection
Hong Kong Chop House YO1 8AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good13 Nov 2024
The Biltmore Bar & Grill YO1 8AZPub/bar/nightclub20 m5 Very good24 Feb 2026
Oscars Wine Bar YO1 8AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good25 Feb 2026
Vudu Lounge YO1 8AZPub/bar/nightclub20 m5 Very good23 Mar 2018
D'VIne YO1 8AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m2 Improvement necessary25 Feb 2026
Victor J's YO1 8RWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good3 Apr 2025
Yorvale YO1 8RNMobile caterer30 m5 Very good29 Mar 2021
The Roman Bath YO1 8RNPub/bar/nightclub30 mAwaiting inspection
Mrs E Peel YO1 8RNMobile caterer30 m5 Very good22 Feb 2018
Pizza Express YO1 8RNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good24 Jan 2024
The Three Cranes YO1 8RNPub/bar/nightclub30 m5 Very good22 Feb 2018
Loopy Scoops ice cream shop YO1 8BARetailers - other30 m5 Very good16 Oct 2024

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.

1,833 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences533
Shoplifting466
Anti-social behaviour441
Public order112
Other theft70
Criminal damage and arson58
Bicycle theft37
Drugs28
Robbery23
Burglary21
Theft from the person20
Possession of weapons15
Vehicle crime7
Other crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near (864); On or near Shopping Area (300); On or near Blake Street (135); 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: 389 residents in 236 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 streetEngland
Median age4640
Children under 154%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)37%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented20%17%
Private rented43%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van14%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle29%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)52%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 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 Foro (restaurant/cafe/canteen, YO1 9TF) is no longer listed; it was rated 1 Major improvement necessary found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Popworld (pub/bar/nightclub, YO1 6JL) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good 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

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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.

  • YO1 8AZ: 34 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • YO1 8BG: 3 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • YO1 8BE: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St Sampsons Square · Lunds Court · Finkle Street · Church Street · Back Swinegate · Swinegate · Patrick Pool · Silver Street · St Sampson's Square · Low Petergate · Low Petergate · Newgate

All the streets in YO1 and across York.

What this page cannot tell you

  • 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.