YO21 crime rate and statistics

The YO21 postcode district, in the YO (York) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 1,209 street-crime records for YO21 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 5.0% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 87.9 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 74.8 for North Yorkshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

1,209

Latest month (August 2026)

158

Year-on-year

+5.0%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 89
October 2025 80
November 2025 97
December 2025 72
January 2026 82
February 2026 90
March 2026 116
April 2026 92
May 2026 132
June 2026 97
July 2026 104
August 2026 158

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

YO21

87.9

North Yorkshire Police

74.8

1,209 records and 13,751 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of YO21 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in YO21

Published street-crime records in YO21, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of YO21: the east 1,411, the west 38, the south-east 22, the north-east 8, the south-west 5, the centre 1.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of YO21's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and YO21's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of YO21 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore YO21 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for YO21 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 1,233
2022 1,208
2023 1,172
2024 1,059
2025 1,160
2026 (part year) 871

Is YO21 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for YO21 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in YO21 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

YO21's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by North Yorkshire Police (99.8%), Durham Constabulary (0.1%) and Humberside Police (0.1%).

Postcode sectors in YO21

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
YO21 1 700
YO21 2 82
YO21 3 427

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 13,751 Census 2021 residents of YO21.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 30.3% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 1.1% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About YO21 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £231,500 (108)
2025 £269,000 (222)
2024 £255,000 (220)
2023 £278,750 (200)
2022 £260,000 (263)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £410,000 (27) £273,000 (27) £205,000 (30) £149,000 (24)
2025 £382,500 (57) £269,000 (80) £220,000 (58) £170,000 (27)
2024 £399,950 (55) £259,975 (54) £233,750 (56) £185,000 (55)
2023 £390,000 (65) £284,750 (46) £216,500 (44) £190,000 (45)
2022 £385,000 (57) £273,750 (60) £244,000 (66) £210,000 (80)

Schools and colleges

13 open establishments with a postcode in YO21, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 13 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Airy Hill Primary School Primary Academy converter
Castleton Primary School Primary Academy converter
Danby Church of England Voluntary Aided School Primary Voluntary aided school
Egton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Glaisdale Primary School Primary Academy converter
Lealholm Primary School Primary Academy converter
Lythe Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Ruswarp Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Stakesby Primary Academy Primary Academy converter
St Hedda's Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Primary Academy converter
West Cliff Primary School Primary Academy converter
Whitby School Secondary Community school
International Christian Language School for Functional English – Miscellaneous

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High34
Medium10
Low29
Very low3

Broadband

Share of the 668 postcodes in YO21 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit39.4%55.8%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)75.6%87.6%

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CrimeMapsUK. YO21 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/yo21/

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