YO12 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

889 of the district's 1,120 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 54.27290, -0.42462, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in YO12

Companies House lists 1,434 companies with a registered office in YO12; 637 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for YO12

• North Yorkshire
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Scarborough
• Seamer
• Staxton
• Willerby
• Irton
• Ganton
• Potter Brompton

Roads filed under YO12

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbot's Garth
• Acworth Street
• Albert Road
• Albert Street
• Alderson Crescent
• Alexandra Park
• All Saints Road
• Almond Grove
• Ash Grove
• Ashville Avenue
• Asquith Avenue
• Attlee Close
• Avenue Road
• Avocet Crescent
• Ayton Road
• Barrowcliff Road
• Barry's Lane
• Barwick Street
• Barwick Terrace
• Beacon Road
• Beaconsfield Street
• Beckview
• Bedale Avenue
• Beechville Avenue
• Belgrave Crescent
• Bell Close
• Belle Vue Street
• Beverley Gate
• Bickley Howe
• Bielby Close
• Billow Drive
• Binnington Carr Lane
• Blackbird Way
• Blenheim Street
• Blueberry Way
• Box Hill
• Bracken Hill
• Briardene Avenue
• Briercliffe
• Brierley Road
• Brigantia Gardens
• Brinkburn Road
• Britannia Street
• Broadway
• Bronte Close
• Brook Street
• Broom Walk
• Brumby Road
• Bry Hills
• Burniston Road
• Burtondale Road
• Byward Drive
• Caburn Close
• Caledonia Street
• Cambridge Place
• Cambridge Street
• Candler Street
• Caspian Lane
• Cavalry Court
• Centurion Way

Check an address in YO12

Check an address in YO12

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=YO12" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about YO12

What does a YO12 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the YO12 district of the YO (York) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Scarborough. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 889 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest YO12

• YO112.1 km
• YO135.0 km
• YO1411.7 km
• YO1822.4 km
• YO2223.6 km
• YO1624.4 km
• YO1525.5 km
• YO1726.4 km
• YO2129.3 km
• YO2529.8 km
• YO6237.1 km
• YO6039.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids