United Kingdom · Yorkshire and The Humber · Local Authority
North Yorkshire
Unitary authority · Yorkshire and The Humber, England · population ~621k · 348 state-funded schools
Affordable, safe, rural — works if you bring the salary in. Less well if you're trying to earn it locally.
The signature
How North Yorkshire ranks across 361 UK Local Authorities
Pay
£37,986/yr
Low
Worse than 63% of UK LAs
House price
£273,500
Mid-range
Around UK average
Rent
£831/mo
Affordable
Better than 69% of UK LAs
Council tax
£2,544/yr
Expensive
Worse than 79% of UK LAs
Crime
47.4/1k
Safest
Better than 91% of UK LAs
Deprivation
14.6
Low
Better than 69% of UK LAs
Schools
91.9%
Mid
Worse than 59% of UK LAs
Colour shows quintile position against 361 UK Local Authorities. Green is the best position for someone moving here; red is the worst. Direction is set per indicator — higher pay, lower rent, less crime, less deprivation are all green.
The take
Three different places stitched into one administrative shell. York and Harrogate behave like compact southern cities with the price tags to match. The dales and moors behave like rural Scotland. The coast — Scarborough, Whitby, Filey — is its own thing again, with the highest deprivation in the LA and the thinnest local labour market. The signature above flatters a unified authority that only came into being in April 2023 by averaging across all of these.
On pay
£37,986/yr
The local economy leans on hospitality, agriculture and tourism. Median full-time pay sits roughly mid-pack nationally — which works for people bringing salary in (remote workers on national pay scales, southern downsizers, retirees on private pensions). It works less well for finding local work at southern rates, especially outside York.
On the asterisks
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Deprivation is logged as the predecessor-district 2019 average — MHCLG hasn't republished a unitary-level IMD since the merger, so the figure understates how unevenly deprivation is distributed (the coast is materially worse than the dales). The schools figure is from Ofsted's legacy 4-grade framework; a small number of schools sit on the post-2024 report-card framework and don't roll up into it.
Schools
347 state-funded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026
316 of 344 (91.9%) rated Good or Outstanding under Ofsted's legacy framework. 3 schools are on the post-2024 report-card framework and don't roll up into the legacy total. How we count →
The map
348 schools · pins coloured by Ofsted grade
Schools cluster around York, Harrogate and the southern fringe. The upper dales and the coast are notably thinner — Hambleton villages, Ryedale north of Pickering, the Whitby–Filey stretch all show as sparse pin areas.
Showing 20 of 348 schools.
| New framework | Links | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Harrogate Grammar School | Secondary | 2,070 | Outstanding2022 | — | OfstedWebsite |
St Aidan's Church of England High School | Secondary | 2,026 | Good2022 | — | OfstedWebsite |
South Craven School | Secondary | 1,860 | Good2023 | — | OfstedWebsite |
King James's School | Secondary | 1,522 | Good2023 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Tadcaster Grammar School | Secondary | 1,500 | Good2022 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Richmond School & Sixth Form College | Secondary | 1,289 | Good2022 | — | OfstedWebsite |
St John Fisher Catholic Academy | Secondary | 1,280 | Good2022 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and Science | Secondary | 1,161 | Good2023 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Stokesley School | Secondary | 1,052 | Good2022 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Whitby School | Secondary | 1,041 | Requires Improvement2023 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Malton School Grade inherited from previous URN 121681 | Secondary | 1,041 | Good2023 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Northallerton School & Sixth Form College | Secondary | 1,037 | Good2022 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Thirsk School & Sixth Form College | Secondary | 1,014 | Good2022 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Scalby Academy | Secondary | 969 | Good2012 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Graham School | Secondary | 968 | Requires Improvement2023 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Ripon Grammar SchoolGrammar | Secondary | 942 | Good2023 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Brayton Academy | Secondary | 932 | Outstanding2019 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Sherburn High School | Secondary | 915 | Good2023 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Skipton Girls' High SchoolGrammar | Secondary | 855 | Good2022 | — | OfstedWebsite |
Ermysted's Grammar SchoolGrammar | Secondary | 818 | Good2022 | — | OfstedWebsite |
For
- Remote workers wanting space and time outdoors
- Families with young children and London-priced equity to deploy
- Retirees on private pensions or final-salary schemes
- People comfortable with a car as primary transport
Not for
- Anyone without a car — public transport thins fast outside York
- Renters expecting walkable urban amenity past York and Harrogate
- Tech, finance or media professionals expecting to find local work at southern salaries
- Specialist healthcare needs that can't be served from York
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What we don't know yet
Commute times · GP appointment availability · broadband speeds · air quality at LA level · green-space proximity · public transport coverage. These matter for a relocation decision. We'll add them when the source data is reliable nationally and consistent across LA boundaries.