Best places to live in Yorkshire and The Humber: house prices and data by area

York is the dearest at £303,500 and Kingston upon Hull the cheapest at £140,000: the same budget buys 2.2 times as much home by price at one end of Yorkshire and The Humber as at the other.

The marker on each bar is the middle asking price of the new homes for sale there today. In 15 of the 15 council areas with enough new homes to compare, new homes are asking more than the homes sold around them: a new home is often larger or a different kind, so the gap is not the new-build premium on its own.

1,959 new homes are for sale across Yorkshire and The Humber today. East Riding of Yorkshire has the most (339), then North Yorkshire (303).

In the middle council area of Yorkshire and The Humber, homes sold new went for 51% more than resales over the last twelve months.

The gap is widest in Rotherham (71% more) and narrowest in North Yorkshire (22% more). It compares every new home with every resale, whatever their size and kind, so read it as the price of buying new there, not as a like-for-like premium.

Price per square foot takes the size of the home out of the comparison. It runs from £167 in Kingston upon Hull to £351 in York.

Sales for every thousand households show how often homes change hands, which is how much choice a buyer has in a year. East Riding of Yorkshire is the busiest (30) and Kingston upon Hull the quietest (21), around a middle of 25.

A busy market is a sign of both supply and demand: more homes are coming up, and more buyers are competing for them.

In Rotherham, 4% of the homes sold in the last twelve months were sold new, the highest share in Yorkshire and The Humber; in York it was 0%. New sales reach the register later than resales, so the latest months undercount them.

Sold prices were flat in the middle council area of Yorkshire and The Humber over the last year. Bradford moved most (up 4.4%) and North East Lincolnshire least (down 2.9%).

The mix of homes sold changes from year to year, so a single council area can swing for that reason alone; read the pattern across the areas more than any one bar.

Over three years the middle council area's sold prices rose 4.3%, led by Bradford (up 15.2%).

Over three years the cheaper council areas of Yorkshire and The Humber have loosely grown faster than the dearer ones, closing some of the gap between them.

Council areas closer to Leeds have clearly seen more growth over three years than those further out.

Being ten miles closer to Leeds costs about £14 more per square foot across Yorkshire and The Humber, a loose pattern: on a home of a thousand square feet that is about £14,000.

The further a council area is from Leeds, the more of its workers loosely drive to work.

Council areas with more schools judged good or better are loosely dearer: every ten points more goes with about £44,000 on the middle sold price. The schools do not cause all of that; both follow the same households.

A council area is large: the school a home is offered depends on its own address, so check the schools around a development before relying on this.

Attainment 8 is a pupil's score across eight GCSE subjects. The secondary schools of York average the highest in Yorkshire and The Humber (50.7) and those of Bradford the lowest (42.2).

Results are loosely higher closer to Leeds.

Density says what kind of place an area is: how close the homes, shops, schools and stations sit. Kingston upon Hull is the most built up (3,730 people per square kilometre) and North Yorkshire the least (77).

Age and income are not linked across Yorkshire and The Humber: there are younger and older areas at every level of income.

Areas towards the top right have the most children and the largest households: Bradford, Kirklees and Kingston upon Hull lead for residents under fifteen. Towards the bottom left are the areas with more single people and couples.

In the middle council area of Yorkshire and The Humber, 19% of households rent privately. The share renting has little to do with price here.

Kingston upon Hull, Sheffield and Bradford have the highest walk scores in Yorkshire and The Humber. Denser areas are clearly more walkable, because more is close by; an area above the line is easier on foot than its density alone would suggest.

Another way to see how easy it is to get about is how many households manage without a car. In Kingston upon Hull, 35% have none, the most in Yorkshire and The Humber. Areas towards the bottom right are where daily life depends least on driving.

A band D home pays £2,544 a year in North Yorkshire, the most in Yorkshire and The Humber, and £2,168 in Doncaster, the least: a difference of £377 every year for the same band.

A new home is banded when it is finished, so ask the builder which band each plot is expected to fall in.

Police recorded 141 crimes for every thousand residents in Kingston upon Hull over the last year held, and 64 in East Riding of Yorkshire. City centres record more because of the people who visit them, not only those who live there, and a council area's figure hides wide differences between its streets.