Bondgate
Suburb · 219 residents
70Very good
Very good · better than 8 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
- Food & drink scores 93, well above the typical 60
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 41 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Flood risk: 41% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Environment scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bondgate
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Bondgate a good place to live?
Bondgate scores 70/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (93) and health (80).
It scores lowest on environment (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bondgate in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bondgate
Bondgate is small enough that a terraced row and a corner shop or two can define the whole place — this is a compact pocket of North Yorkshire, dense by local standards but nowhere near the crowding you'd find in a city suburb, and the sort of spot where a For Sale board doesn't stay up long enough for the neighbours to forget the last one. The population here is modest, the median age sits a touch above the national norm, and the overall impression is settled rather than transient — a place people move to and stay, not pass through.
The housing picture is telling in itself: terraced houses dominate, most of it freehold, and the sample of recent sales clustered well below both the regional and national medians — this is a cheaper corner of an already-affordable authority, sitting a fifth below North Yorkshire's own typical price. That affordability grade of B+ isn't an accident; it reflects a market that hasn't been swept up in the county's pricier pockets. Council tax bands lean toward the mid-range, and connectivity is solid, with full fibre reaching a large majority of properties — useful if working from home is part of the plan, since the schools and transport grades here sit comfortably at B+ without any standout named station or Ofsted-rated school pulling the picture in a different direction.
Green space is generous relative to the region, and the general texture of daily life reads as unremarkable in the best sense — shops, a settled population, decent broadband, nothing that demands a car for every errand. The one place the data insists you look twice is crime: Bondgate carries an A for safety and the trend is flat, not worsening, yet the raw crime rate compares startlingly unfavourably against North Yorkshire as a whole, driven mostly by violence and sexual offences and shoplifting rather than burglary or vehicle crime. With totals this low in absolute terms, a handful of incidents can swing the percentage dramatically — worth sitting with rather than dismissing, but not a reason on its own to rule the area out given the letter grade and flat trend agree it isn't deteriorating.