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Reighton Sands

Reighton Sands is a village in North Yorkshire, England. It has two restaurants and cafés, three bus stops, and Hunmanby railway station 4.1 km away, with three recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence and sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Reighton Sands area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the North Yorkshire area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025).

Council
North Yorkshire
County
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton
Police force
North Yorkshire
62/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 63rd of 294 English council areas — better than 79% of them.

Low crime89
Home affordability56
Affordable rents75
Good schools42
Life expectancy71
Low deprivation64
Low council tax23

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. Scored on 90% of the full weighting — some data isn't available here. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

11°CCloudy

  • Today: 12° / 11° · 57% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 11° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:21

9h 13m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Hull Freetown, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 5.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.1% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

4 reported · August 2026▲ 33% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences4

Neighbourhood team: Eastfield and Filey · North Yorkshire

Local policing priorities

  • Tackling drug use in Eastfield & Filey. Disrupt and deter those who engage in any form of drug related activity within our communities
  • Anti-Social Behaviour of any kind in Filey, Eastfield and Scarborough Rural areas.

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

1,159 reported road collisions (2025)

331 killed or seriously injured · 1,530 casualties · 18.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

19 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 17 rated 4–5 ★ (17 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Hunmanby (3.8 km)
  • 3 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Hunmanby (3.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£270,080 average▲ 1.7% YoY

Across North Yorkshire · to 2026-08

Detached£431,122
Semi-detached£269,527
Terraced£219,836
Flat£142,783

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£849 average monthly rent▲ 2.4% YoY

  • 1 bed £594
  • 2 bed £769
  • 3 bed £941

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

7.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.9 times median annual pay (7.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

9,306 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 174.9p · Asda (8.7 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 199.9p · Asda (8.7 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

2 charging locations within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 22 kW
  • Nearest: Reighton Sands Holiday Park (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools2
  • Sports pitches1
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

615,491 residents in North Yorkshire

  • Under 16: 16%
  • 16–64: 59%
  • 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK33,901
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK26,388
  • Net moves+7,513

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 189 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,544 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 306,270)

A £1,696
B £1,979
C £2,262
D £2,544
E £3,110
F £3,675
G £4,241
H £5,089

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

380 schools · 85,418 pupils

290 primary · 41 secondary · 49 other

Ofsted: 154 of 177 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (87%)

349 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Harrogate Grammar SchoolOutstanding
  • Outwood Academy EasingwoldOutstanding
  • Ryedale SchoolOutstanding
  • Ermysted's Grammar SchoolGood
  • Lady Lumley's AcademyGood
  • Malton SchoolGood
  • Northallerton School & Sixth Form CollegeGood
  • Norton SchoolGood
  • Outwood Academy RiponGood
  • Ripon Grammar SchoolGood
  • Scarborough University Technical CollegeGood
  • Skipton Girls' High SchoolGood
  • South Craven SchoolGood
  • St Aidan's Church of England High SchoolGood
  • St John Fisher Catholic AcademyGood
  • Stokesley SchoolGood
  • The Skipton AcademyGood
  • Wensleydale SchoolGood
  • Barlby High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Bedale High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Boroughbridge High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Graham SchoolRequires improvement
  • Harrogate High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Whitby SchoolRequires improvement
  • Brayton Academy
  • Filey Academy
  • George Pindar School
  • King James's School
  • Nidderdale High School
  • Richmond School & Sixth Form College
  • Risedale School
  • Rossett School
  • Scalby Academy
  • Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and Science
  • Settle College
  • Sherburn High School
  • St Augustine's Catholic School - a Catholic voluntary academy
  • St Francis Xavier School - a Joint Catholic and Church of England Voluntary Academy
  • Tadcaster Grammar School
  • Thirsk School & Sixth Form College

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · North Yorkshire

Care & health services

634 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes205
  • GP practices80
  • Dentists139
  • Homecare agencies155
  • Hospitals & hospices15

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · North Yorkshire

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 10 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

1,247 applications decided

90.3% granted · 1,126 granted, 121 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Kevin Hollinrake

Conservative

Thirsk and Malton

Recent votes:

  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Conservative (minority)

  • Lab 10
  • Con 41
  • LD 13
  • Grn 5
  • Ref 5
  • Oth 16

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Parks & greens3
  • Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

37,395 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£731 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,703 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

53% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 57,421 certificates

14.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

81% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 51% · Wind 24% · Gas 13% · Imports 7%

111 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for Yorkshire · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.8 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 65.4 women · 64.5 men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Health services

2 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in YO14

  • Filey Surgery
  • Hunmanby Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Thirsk and Malton:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Reighton · 1.3 km

    Reighton is a village and civil parish, in North Yorkshire, England.

  • St Peter's Church, Reighton · 1.3 km

    St Peter's Church is the parish church of Reighton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

  • Speeton · 2.0 km

    Speeton is a village in the civil parish of Reighton, in North Yorkshire, England. It lies near the edge of the coastal cliffs midway between Filey and Bridlington. It is North Yorkshire's easternmost settlement, but…

  • St Leonard's Church, Speeton · 2.0 km

    St Leonard's Church is an Anglican church in Speeton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

  • RAF Hunmanby Moor · 2.1 km

    RAF Hunmanby Moor,, was a Royal Air Force training camp during the Second World War in Hunmanby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The site was commandeered at the outbreak of war and returned to civilian use as a ho…

  • Butlin's Filey · 2.4 km

    Filey Holiday Camp was a Butlin's holiday camp near Filey, North Yorkshire, England, built for Billy Butlin's holiday organisation. Construction of the camp began in 1939. From 1939 to 1945, the camp was used as a mil…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Reighton Sands?
Reighton Sands is a town in North Yorkshire, England, in the North Yorkshire local authority.
How deprived is Reighton Sands?
The North Yorkshire local authority, which includes Reighton Sands, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.