HU17
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Beverley and Molescroft, in East Riding of Yorkshire.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an HU17 postcode. How census figures are added up
Gigabit coverage by postcode district
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In HU17, 98.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How HU17 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is HU17 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in HU17 at a rate of 55.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 103.2 per 1,000 people across HU.
In August 2026 alone, 246 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in HU17.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,080), other crime (516) and shoplifting (373).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in HU17 was 55.0 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in HU17, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so HU17 has no single figure. Of its 27 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in HU17
MPs for HU17
- Graham StuartConservativeMP for Beverley and Holderness100% of HU17’s postcodes
- David DavisConservativeMP for Goole and Pocklington0.2% of HU17’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Middle areas in HU176
Postcode sectors in HU176
Council1
Towns in HU171
Postcode districts next to HU177
Nearest rail stations1
More in the HU postcode area2
HU17 in brief
HU17 is a postcode district covering Beverley and Molescroft, in East Riding of Yorkshire.
About 46,085 people lived in HU17 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £267,000 in 2025 across 911 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 55.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in HU17 was £267,000 in 2025.
HU17 had 43,812 usual residents at the census.
In HU17, 98.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In HU17, 2.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.