Whitby
TownTown in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Whitby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whitby 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 15% of people in Whitby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whitby compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Whitby safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whitby at a rate of 98.9 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, 151 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whitby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (516), anti-social behaviour (307) and other crime (168).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Whitby was 102.7 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 Whitby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Whitby has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Whitby
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarborough 001A | 1,306 | 57.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.2% |
| Scarborough 001B | 1,931 | 20.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.3% |
| Scarborough 001E | 1,558 | 49.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 82.7% |
| Scarborough 001F | 2,111 | 288.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 80.6% |
| Scarborough 003A | 1,583 | 36.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.9% |
| Scarborough 003B | 1,418 | 92.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.1% |
| Scarborough 003C | 1,159 | 349.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 78.2% |
| Scarborough 003D | 2,066 | 72.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.6% |
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 Whitby2
Middle areas in Whitby2
Towns near Whitby4
Whitby in brief
Whitby is a town in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 12,680 people lived in Whitby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £250,000 in 2025 across 231 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 98.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Whitby was £250,000 in 2025.
Whitby had 12,603 usual residents at the census.
About 15% of people in Whitby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whitby, 86.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.