Sherburn in Elmet
TownTown in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Sherburn in Elmet is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sherburn in Elmet 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 87% of people in Sherburn in Elmet live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sherburn in Elmet compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sherburn in Elmet safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sherburn in Elmet at a rate of 55.7 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, 50 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sherburn in Elmet.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (204), anti-social behaviour (117) and other crime (76).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sherburn in Elmet was 60.8 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 Sherburn in Elmet, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sherburn in Elmet has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Sherburn in Elmet
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selby 004B | 1,546 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Selby 004C | 2,055 | 61.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
| Selby 004D | 1,621 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Selby 004F | 1,555 | 48.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 71.4% |
| Selby 004G | 1,792 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
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 Sherburn in Elmet1
Middle areas in Sherburn in Elmet1
Towns near Sherburn in Elmet6
Sherburn in Elmet in brief
Sherburn in Elmet is a town in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 9,248 people lived in Sherburn in Elmet in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £265,000 in 2025 across 186 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 55.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sherburn in Elmet was £265,000 in 2025.
Sherburn in Elmet had 8,569 usual residents at the census.
About 87% of people in Sherburn in Elmet live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sherburn in Elmet, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.