Blackmoor in Yorkshire and The Humber has a Check Local Score of 71/100 (very good), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Blackmoor doesn't announce itself with a high street of shops and cafes — it's detached houses on generous plots, stone walls, cars that are newer than average, and very few people walking about given how much green space surrounds them. This is the kind of place you drive into rather than stumble across, and the streetscape tells you that before any figures do.
The numbers back up what you'd guess from the houses alone. Blackmoor sits in the top income and deprivation deciles nationally — decile 10 on both counts — and the £590,000 median sale price is more than double the national median, with detached homes here trading at £675,000 against £420,000 nationally. Against Leeds, its parent city, prices run about 150% higher, which places Blackmoor closer to the country's most comfortable corners than to the city it technically belongs to. Almost every sale is a detached freehold, which tells you the story on any board you'd see going up: this is family-house-and-garden territory, not flats or new-build estate housing, and the near-total absence of new construction means what's here is largely what's been here a while.
Green space is generous relative to the size of the place — nearly 150 hectares across just three sites for a population of 427, well above the national rate per head — so gardens aside, there's room to walk a dog or let children roam without leaving the area. Schooling is a mixed picture worth reading carefully: Harewood Church of England Primary carries a Good rating, and Gateways School, an independent, sits alongside Bardsey Primary Academy, though not every school here has a published inspection grade to lean on. The overall schools grade lands comfortably above the national average, which suggests the ones without ratings aren't dragging the picture down, but it's not a district you'd choose purely on paper credentials — reputation and visits will matter more than the grade here.
Safety is the one place where the pattern breaks. Against a backdrop of A and A-plus grades for environment and affordability, safety and health both sit at a more middling B — and the crime rate runs some 285% above the Leeds parent average, largely driven by violence and sexual offences and shoplifting, which together account for over half of the reported incidents. The raw count is small for a population this size, so a handful of incidents move the percentage sharply; it's worth reading as noise around a low base rather than a pattern of daily risk, but it's the honest asterisk on an otherwise comfortable profile. Health, similarly, doesn't quite match the affluence elsewhere in the data, which is worth a second look before assuming everything here scores top marks simply because the postcode does.
Median age of 48 and rents pushing toward £1,135 tell you who's actually here: established households, not young renters or first-time buyers, with the income and equity to have chosen this deliberately. It suits people who want space, quiet, and freehold permanence, and who don't need a station or a high street on their doorstep to feel settled — the trade-off being that you're buying into a lifestyle where the nearest bustle is somewhere else entirely.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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