Ripon
TownTown in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Ripon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ripon 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Ripon, 76.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Ripon compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ripon safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ripon at a rate of 59.9 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, 99 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ripon.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (406), anti-social behaviour (248) and other crime (125).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ripon was 62.2 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 Ripon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ripon has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ripon
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrogate 002A | 1,888 | 30.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.3% |
| Harrogate 002B | 1,611 | 71.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 55.4% |
| Harrogate 002C | 1,591 | 25.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 64.0% |
| Harrogate 002D | 1,165 | 29.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.9% |
| Harrogate 004A | 1,771 | 42.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 86.7% |
| Harrogate 004B | 1,784 | 189.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 52.5% |
| Harrogate 004C | 1,721 | 48.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 72.8% |
| Harrogate 004D | 1,388 | 59.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.7% |
| Harrogate 004E | 1,222 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Harrogate 004F | 1,131 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.1% |
| Harrogate 004G | 1,319 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
Your MP
- Sir Julian SmithConservativeMP for Skipton and Ripon
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Ripon1
Middle areas in Ripon2
Towns near Ripon6
Ripon in brief
Ripon is a town in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 17,248 people lived in Ripon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £285,000 in 2025 across 228 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ripon was £285,000 in 2025.
Ripon had 16,593 usual residents at the census.
In Ripon, 76.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Ripon, 2.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.