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Harrogate

Town

Town in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.

Harrogate is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Harrogate add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 80% of people in Harrogate live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£303,000
408th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
75,522
149th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
80%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
97.2%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Harrogate compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

HarrogateMiddle
Median sale price114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2025
Median sale price: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from £125,000 to £410,000. The middle area is £207,498. Harrogate is £303,000.
£303,0006th most expensive
Population114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2021
Population: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 7,545 to 536,262. The middle area is 14,857. Harrogate is 75,522.
75,52212th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 100.0%. Harrogate is 80.0%.
80%joint 37th fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 76.7% to 99.9%. The middle area is 96.2%. Harrogate is 97.2%.
97.2%joint 44th highest

Is Harrogate safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Harrogate at a rate of 71.0 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.

Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.

In August 2026 alone, 546 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Harrogate.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,990), anti-social behaviour (1,115) and other crime (804).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Harrogate was 73.9 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 Harrogate, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Harrogate has no single figure. Of its 51 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 10 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 7 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 9 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 16 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Harrogate

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Harrogate 008A1,23232.0 per 1,0001099.8%
Harrogate 008D1,48432.3 per 1,000995.4%
Harrogate 008F2,68928.6 per 1,000877.2%
Harrogate 010A1,30663.5 per 1,0001099.7%
Harrogate 010B1,21611.4 per 1,0001097.3%
Harrogate 010C1,45527.6 per 1,0009100.0%
Harrogate 010D1,37725.8 per 1,0009100.0%
Harrogate 010E1,25649.8 per 1,0006100.0%
Harrogate 010F1,037150.9 per 1,0006100.0%
Harrogate 010G1,38420.1 per 1,0006100.0%
Harrogate 011A1,36438.5 per 1,000699.9%
Harrogate 011B1,52783.6 per 1,000899.1%
Harrogate 011C1,87433.4 per 1,000699.8%
Harrogate 011D1,44125.6 per 1,00010100.0%
Harrogate 011E1,464101.9 per 1,0004100.0%
Harrogate 013A2,144111.4 per 1,000699.3%
Harrogate 013B1,463121.7 per 1,000398.4%
Harrogate 013C1,19671.1 per 1,000695.1%
Harrogate 013D1,51964.6 per 1,000699.8%
Harrogate 013E1,14076.3 per 1,000699.2%
Harrogate 013F1,525122.8 per 1,000199.8%
Harrogate 014A1,51133.2 per 1,000781.7%
Harrogate 014B1,58898.1 per 1,000999.8%
Harrogate 014C1,73982.8 per 1,000799.7%
Harrogate 014D1,77169.3 per 1,000799.6%
Harrogate 014E1,32334.6 per 1,0008100.0%
Harrogate 014F1,462118.4 per 1,000399.6%
Harrogate 015A1,71937.6 per 1,000998.6%
Harrogate 015B1,31641.5 per 1,000987.8%
Harrogate 015C1,71096.2 per 1,000699.0%
Harrogate 015D1,422147.1 per 1,000897.9%
Harrogate 015E1,759496.5 per 1,000481.6%
Harrogate 015F1,28644.7 per 1,000799.9%
Harrogate 017A1,48045.7 per 1,000999.3%
Harrogate 017B1,41755.7 per 1,000899.8%
Harrogate 017C1,22464.1 per 1,0001096.6%
Harrogate 017D1,35547.8 per 1,0001098.1%
Harrogate 017E1,45522.1 per 1,0001099.2%
Harrogate 017F1,36235.8 per 1,00010100.0%
Harrogate 019A1,69588.8 per 1,000893.6%
Harrogate 019B1,511196.6 per 1,000991.9%
Harrogate 019C1,49016.5 per 1,0001099.9%
Harrogate 019D1,45251.0 per 1,000999.1%
Harrogate 019E1,22535.7 per 1,0001099.0%
Harrogate 020A1,73642.8 per 1,000895.8%
Harrogate 020B1,14538.3 per 1,0001098.0%
Harrogate 020C1,54726.7 per 1,0001099.0%
Harrogate 020D1,50622.7 per 1,0001096.9%
Harrogate 020E1,58321.0 per 1,0001099.8%
Harrogate 020F2,02741.3 per 1,0001098.9%
Harrogate 020G1,50965.4 per 1,0001099.9%

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Postcode districts covering Harrogate3

Middle areas in Harrogate9

Towns near Harrogate6

Harrogate in brief

Harrogate is a town in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.

About 78,038 people lived in Harrogate in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £303,000 in 2025 across 1,385 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 71.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Harrogate was £303,000 in 2025.

Harrogate had 75,522 usual residents at the census.

About 80% of people in Harrogate live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Harrogate, 97.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.