Scarborough
TownTown in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Scarborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Scarborough 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.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 65% of people in Scarborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Scarborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Scarborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Scarborough at a rate of 166.4 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, 863 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Scarborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,645), anti-social behaviour (2,794) and other crime (1,257).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Scarborough was 151.4 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 Scarborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Scarborough has no single figure. Of its 38 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Scarborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarborough 005A | 1,624 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Scarborough 005B | 1,485 | 43.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Scarborough 005C | 1,493 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Scarborough 005D | 1,684 | 113.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Scarborough 005E | 1,856 | 52.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| Scarborough 006A | 1,271 | 361.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.6% |
| Scarborough 006B | 1,670 | 1,132.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 66.1% |
| Scarborough 006D | 1,714 | 224.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.2% |
| Scarborough 006F | 2,751 | 127.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.2% |
| Scarborough 007A | 1,135 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.6% |
| Scarborough 007B | 1,276 | 108.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Scarborough 007C | 1,369 | 107.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Scarborough 007D | 1,787 | 106.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Scarborough 008A | 1,526 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| Scarborough 008B | 1,501 | 191.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
| Scarborough 008C | 1,763 | 198.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| Scarborough 008D | 1,435 | 22.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Scarborough 008E | 1,540 | 227.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.2% |
| Scarborough 009A | 1,528 | 71.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.5% |
| Scarborough 009B | 2,155 | 160.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.7% |
| Scarborough 009C | 1,396 | 65.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.4% |
| Scarborough 009D | 1,361 | 136.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.3% |
| Scarborough 009E | 1,366 | 22.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.1% |
| Scarborough 009F | 1,393 | 138.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.9% |
| Scarborough 010A | 1,466 | 841.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 67.2% |
| Scarborough 010B | 1,499 | 350.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 83.7% |
| Scarborough 010C | 1,119 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.7% |
| Scarborough 010D | 1,310 | 130.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 76.7% |
| Scarborough 010E | 2,228 | 69.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.5% |
| Scarborough 011A | 1,531 | 116.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.3% |
| Scarborough 011B | 1,616 | 20.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Scarborough 011C | 1,220 | 72.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| Scarborough 011D | 1,913 | 49.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.2% |
| Scarborough 011E | 1,404 | 47.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| Scarborough 012A | 1,457 | 242.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.1% |
| Scarborough 012B | 2,343 | 165.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Scarborough 012C | 1,466 | 117.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.8% |
| Scarborough 012D | 1,339 | 35.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Alison HumeLabourMP for Scarborough and Whitby
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 Scarborough3
Middle areas in Scarborough8
Towns near Scarborough4
Scarborough in brief
Scarborough is a town in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 60,895 people lived in Scarborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £175,000 in 2025 across 1,032 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 166.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Scarborough was £175,000 in 2025.
Scarborough had 59,505 usual residents at the census.
About 65% of people in Scarborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Scarborough, 91.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.