Horbury
Town · 9,498 residents
62Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 72% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 17% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 69% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Horbury
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Horbury a good place to live?
Horbury scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (72) and affordability (70).
It scores lowest on health (25).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Horbury in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Horbury
Horbury still has the look of a mill town that made good — stone terraces climbing away from a compact high street, semis and detached houses filling the streets behind, and a population whose median age sits closer to fifty than thirty. This isn't a place full of new-build cul-de-sacs or students; it's settled, a touch older than the national norm, the kind of town where people tend to stay rather than pass through.
That settledness shows up in the housing. A For Sale board here most often sits outside a freehold terrace or semi — terraces and semis together account for the bulk of recent sales, detached houses filling in the rest, and leasehold is rare enough to barely register. At a median of £200,000, Horbury actually prices in line with the Wakefield district average and comfortably under the national figure, though it's worth knowing that within that, semis and terraces sell for noticeably less than their national counterparts while detached homes fetch what you'd pay anywhere else — a sign that the terraced heart of the town is what keeps the overall price modest. The five-year direction on prices is improving, even if any single year's movement looks unremarkable next to that. Council tax band D bills run slightly under both the regional and national medians, which softens the monthly arithmetic a little. Schools follow the same steady pattern: Horbury Academy and Horbury Primary Academy both carry Good ratings, progress scores sit close to the middle of the pack nationally, and with five schools serving a town this size, most families won't be shopping far outside it.