Skipton North & Upper Wharfedale

North Yorkshire · Yorkshire and The Humber · population 10,352 · 6 LSOAs

Approximate neighbourhood (MSOA) boundary. © OpenStreetMap contributors; boundary © ONS / Crown copyright.

77Area Score / 100 ?
  • #1,561 of 6,856 in England
  • #120 of 694 in Yorkshire and The Humber
  • #18 of 77 in North Yorkshire
  • Less deprived (top 30%)
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People living here Census 2021

Residents10,158
Median age (est.)55
Density17per km²
No qualifications11%
Degree or above45%
No car or van10%

Age

0–14 13%15–24 8%25–44 15%45–64 32%65+ 32%

Tenure

Own outright: 53%Mortgage/shared: 24%Social rent: 6%Private rent: 18%
Own outright 53%Mortgage/shared 24%Social rent 6%Private rent 18%

Households

One person: 29%Couple, no children: 22%Couple with children: 23%Lone parent: 5%Other: 22%
One person 29%Couple, no children 22%Couple with children 23%Lone parent 5%Other 22%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 22% · Managers & directors 21% · Skilled trades 15%

All occupation groups
Professional22%
Managers & directors21%
Skilled trades15%
Associate professional12%
Administrative8%
Elementary7%
Caring & leisure6%
Sales & customer service5%
Process & plant3%

Ethnic group

White: 98%Asian: 1%Black: 0%Mixed: 1%Other: 0%
White 98%Asian 1%Black 0%Mixed 1%Other 0%

Religion & identity

Christian 58% · No religion 35% · Muslim 0%

Born outside the UK: 4%

Census 2021 (ONS), Crown copyright, OGL v3.0. Shares are of each question's own respondents (e.g. education is % of residents aged 16+). Figures date from March 2021 and change slowly between censuses.

In summary

Skipton North & Upper Wharfedale is in the less-deprived top third of England, ranked #1,561 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #18 of 77 in North Yorkshire. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Crime (99) but weak on Living environment (6). Typical homes here sold for about £429,500 over the past year, down 0% across five years (from 144 sales), 59% above the wider North Yorkshire median of £270,000. Typical household take-home income is around £44,018 a year, around the middle of England. Recorded crime ran at 24 incidents per 1,000 residents over the past year, well below the England rate of 83.

Themed scores ?

Each 0–100, higher = less deprived on that theme. National rank shown.

Income 98 · #156
Employment 97 · #217
Education 95 · #341
Health 92 · #540
Crime 99 · #80
Housing & access 15 · #5,839
Living environment 6 · #6,421

House prices ?

£429,500median (12m) · +9.4% yr · n=144
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£429,500144+9.4%-0.1%
Detached£602,30057+6.6%+22.9%
Semi-detached£379,50040+2.2%+15.7%
Terraced£319,95033-0.0%+7.7%
Flat£222,50014+17.1%+8.5%
This area£429,500
North Yorkshire£270,000
Yorkshire and The Humber£215,000
England£300,000
Annual median price, all homes. Small samples can be volatile.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Household income

Net household income (a year)£44,018±£6,213 · #2,314 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£40,628
Price-to-income ?9.8×typical home ÷ net income — more stretched than the England figure of 7.5×

Model-based ONS estimates (FYE 2023) with 95% confidence intervals — a guide to the typical household, not a measurement. How income estimates work →

Affordability-adjusted Score ?

51Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
Best-value areas in England →

Recorded crime ?

24 crimes per 1,000 residents · 12 months · 243 offences
North Yorkshire50
Yorkshire and The Humber97
England83

Rank #111 of 6,427 areas with published data (1 = lowest recorded rate).

Category (12 months)Recorded
Violence & sexual offences115
Theft38
Burglary25
Vehicle crime8
Criminal damage & arson21
Public order & weapons22
Drugs5
Robbery0
Other9

Anti-social behaviour, recorded separately: 51 incidents.

Recorded incidents, not convictions. Crimes are counted where they happen while residents are counted where they live, so busy town-centre, retail and nightlife areas show high per-resident rates because visitors bring incidents with them. Street-level crime data © Crown copyright, data.police.uk, OGL v3.0. More on crime figures →

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