HG postcode district map, Harrogate
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The HG postcode area covers 5 districts and 4,528 live postcodes, from HG1 to HG5. It is centred on Harrogate and also covers Pateley Bridge, Ripon and Knaresborough.
It is a dense area by postcode standards: an average of 906 postcodes per district,.
Where the HG districts sit
Where HG sits
The whole area sits inside North Yorkshire, which is unusual at this size.
Water supply across HG
All 5 HG districts are supplied by Yorkshire Water. That makes HG simple in a way many areas are not: one company, one set of rules, one status to check.
No hosepipe ban currently applies anywhere in HG.
The shape of the HG area
HG3 is the largest district with 1,207 postcodes around Pateley Bridge, and HG5 the smallest with 637. The area divides into 25 postcode sectors.
HG3 alone holds about 27 per cent of every postcode in HG,.
District by district: HG1 serves Harrogate, HG2 serves Harrogate, HG3 serves Pateley Bridge, HG4 serves Ripon and HG5 serves Knaresborough.
Several districts share a settlement, which is a common source of confusion when a form rejects an address: HG1 and HG2 all point at Harrogate.
What borders HG
HG sits next to LS (Leeds) to the south, BD (Bradford) to the south west, WF (Wakefield) to the south, HX (Halifax) to the south west and DL (Darlington) to the north.
HG districts, settlements and water supply
| District | Principal settlement | Water company | Hosepipe ban status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HG1 | Harrogate | Yorkshire Water | No restrictions |
| HG2 | Harrogate | Yorkshire Water | No restrictions |
| HG3 | Pateley Bridge | Yorkshire Water | No restrictions |
| HG4 | Ripon | Yorkshire Water | No restrictions |
| HG5 | Knaresborough | Yorkshire Water | No restrictions |
Principal settlement is the town or city each district sits in or nearest to, derived from OS Open Names. It is not the Royal Mail post town, which is licensed data and not published openly. Status is resolved live from each company’s own notice.
Water hardness in HG
Figures are in milligrams per litre as calcium carbonate, the unit UK water companies report in. 5 of 5 districts have a published figure.
| District | Hardness | As published | Supply zone | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HG1 | 56.1 mg/l That is very soft on the water industry scale. | 56.1 mg/l as CaCO₃ | E01027654, E01027677, E01027690, E01027738 | Yorkshire Water 2026 edition |
| HG2 | 45–85.7 mg/l varies across this district | 60.2 mg/l as CaCO₃ | E01027648, E01027661, E01027697, E01027719 +1 more | Yorkshire Water 2026 edition |
| HG3 | 93.1 mg/l That is soft on the water industry scale. | 93.1 mg/l as CaCO₃ | E01027694 | Yorkshire Water 2026 edition |
| HG4 | 52.4 mg/l That is very soft on the water industry scale. | 52.4 mg/l as CaCO₃ | E01027686, E01027709, E01027714 | Yorkshire Water 2026 edition |
| HG5 | 62.6 mg/l That is very soft on the water industry scale. | 62.6 mg/l as CaCO₃ | E01027669, E01027671, E01027673, E01027676 | Yorkshire Water 2026 edition |
Descriptions such as very soft, soft, moderately hard, hard, very hard are the water industry scale: very soft below 75, soft 75–125, moderately hard 125–250, hard 250–375, very hard above 375 mg/l. Your supplier may use a different scale for the same number.
Contains Yorkshire Water drinking water quality data, via Stream, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Edition 2026, published 1 January 2026. Yorkshire Water publishes this as mg/l without naming the species. We read it as calcium carbonate because the determinand is Hardness total and the dataset contains no calcium determinand. Evidence: determinand "Hardness total"; DWI code "HARD T"; no calcium determinand published in the dataset.
Hardness is published per census area, not per postcode, so these figures characterise a district rather than measuring one address. They are a scale and taste matter, not a safety one. Hardness data version wessex-water@2022-2025+yorkshire-water@2026.
Download the HG data
No signup, no email wall. GeoJSON carries the district points, the supplier and the live status, so it can be dropped straight into a map.
District positions are averaged postcode centroids from OS Code-Point Open. They show roughly where a district sits, not where its boundary runs, and are not legal boundaries.
Frequently asked questions
How many postcode districts are in the HG area?
There are 5 HG postcode districts, running from HG1 to HG5, and they contain 4,528 live postcodes across 25 sectors.
What towns does the HG postcode area cover?
HG covers Harrogate, Pateley Bridge, Ripon and Knaresborough. The area takes its name from Harrogate, and each district is listed with its settlement in the table on this page.
Which water company supplies HG postcodes?
Yorkshire Water supplies all 5 HG districts. Supply boundaries follow the pipe network rather than postcode geography, so confirm against your water bill if you are near the edge of the area.
Why do HG1 and HG2 both say Harrogate?
HG1 and HG2 all serve Harrogate, covering different parts of it. A single town routinely needs more than one postcode district once it passes a few thousand delivery points, so this is normal rather than an error in an address.
Can I download a free HG postcode map?
Yes. This page offers the HG districts as GeoJSON, CSV and SVG, free and with no signup or email address required. The GeoJSON carries each district's position, its water company and its current restriction status, so it can be dropped straight into a mapping tool.
Why is the HG area called Harrogate when it covers Pateley Bridge?
HG takes its letters from Harrogate, where the sorting office that served the area was based when the code was allocated. Pateley Bridge is the largest settlement in the area today, in HG3, but the area code follows the historic sorting geography rather than current population.
How many postcode sectors are in HG?
HG contains 25 postcode sectors across its 5 districts. A sector is the district plus the first digit of the second half of the postcode, and it is the level a delivery round is actually planned around.