Anchorage Hill
Suburb · 405 residents
72Very good
Very good · better than 9 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 74 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Food & drink scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Anchorage Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Anchorage Hill a good place to live?
Anchorage Hill scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (79) and safety (74).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Anchorage Hill in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Anchorage Hill
Detached and semi-detached houses dominate here, the kind with gravel drives and a car or two on them, and the general impression is one of quiet, settled comfort rather than anything sharp-edged. This is not a place of flats and churn — with a median age around 47, a good decade above the national figure, Anchorage Hill reads as a spot where people arrive and stay, rather than pass through on their way somewhere else.
The property picture backs that up: semi-detached homes on freehold titles make up the bulk of sales, with detached houses close behind, and almost no leasehold or new-build stock in the mix. A median price of £280,000 sits close to the national median and a little above the regional one, which places this squarely in solid-but-not-flashy territory — comfortably ahead of North Yorkshire's typical price, without tipping into the stretched-affordability end of the market. Schools follow the same even keel: St Mary's Catholic Primary and Richmond Methodist Primary both carry Good Ofsted ratings, and St Francis Xavier School's progress 8 score of 1.01 is genuinely strong, well above the national average — though it's worth knowing that Risedale School, the other secondary option, sits at -0.56, a reminder that school quality here varies by which gates you walk through, not just which postcode. Public transport is thin on the ground, with only a handful of stops and no rail station named in the picture, so this reads as a driving suburb rather than a commuter-line one.