Skipton
TownTown in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Skipton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Skipton 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 100% of people in Skipton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Skipton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Skipton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Skipton at a rate of 77.7 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, 114 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Skipton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (459), anti-social behaviour (310) and other crime (149).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Skipton was 84.8 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 Skipton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Skipton has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 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 Skipton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craven 005A | 1,719 | 23.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Craven 005B | 1,850 | 17.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.7% |
| Craven 005C | 1,934 | 136.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.3% |
| Craven 005D | 1,173 | 74.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Craven 006A | 1,446 | 69.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.0% |
| Craven 006B | 1,101 | 107.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Craven 006D | 1,632 | 78.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.5% |
| Craven 006E | 1,444 | 73.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.0% |
| Craven 006F | 1,288 | 218.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.1% |
| Craven 009F | 1,801 | 27.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.5% |
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 Skipton1
Middle areas in Skipton2
Towns near Skipton6
Skipton in brief
Skipton is a town in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 15,539 people lived in Skipton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £239,000 in 2025 across 347 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 77.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Skipton was £239,000 in 2025.
Skipton had 15,050 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Skipton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Skipton, 95.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.