Selby
TownTown in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Selby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Selby 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 0% of people in Selby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Selby compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Selby safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Selby at a rate of 120.9 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, 234 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Selby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (881), anti-social behaviour (573) and other crime (373).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Selby was 115.6 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 Selby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Selby has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 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 Selby
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selby 005A | 1,244 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| Selby 005C | 1,414 | 114.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Selby 005D | 1,608 | 277.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.2% |
| Selby 005E | 2,226 | 347.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.6% |
| Selby 005G | 1,392 | 85.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| Selby 005H | 1,123 | 94.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Selby 005I | 1,500 | 64.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Selby 005J | 1,231 | 184.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Selby 005K | 1,560 | 58.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| Selby 006B | 1,575 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Selby 006E | 1,164 | 21.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Selby 006F | 2,397 | 45.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Selby 007A | 1,235 | 24.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Keir MatherLabourMP for Selby
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 Selby1
Middle areas in Selby2
Towns near Selby6
Selby in brief
Selby is a town in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 20,057 people lived in Selby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £190,000 in 2025 across 297 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 120.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Selby was £190,000 in 2025.
Selby had 19,480 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Selby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Selby, 98.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.