York
North Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Population 209,301
Tools
Start here: whether you can drive into the centre right now, what parking costs today, how busy it will be — and, until 31 October, the secondary school deadline.
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Driving into the footstreets: who, when, and which gate
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What will parking actually cost?
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How busy will York be?
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Which secondary school is my catchment school?
Where are York's buses right now?
Live positions for First York's city and Park & Ride routes and East Yorkshire's Y12/Y14, in plain words — how far out and which side of town.
When are my bins collected?
Your address's real collection dates, read live from City of York Council — with an optional email reminder the evening before.
What's My Council Tax?
Pick your band to see this year's council tax for a home in York — what it costs a year and a month, and how the bill splits between City of York Council and the Mayor's police and fire precepts.
Flood warnings and river levels
Live Environment Agency warnings for York's own flood areas, plus what the Ouse and Foss gauges are reading right now.
York residents recommend
The questions York people keep asking each other — trades, dentists, step-free places, where to take awkward waste — answered and voted on by residents.
The city walls: gates, towers and when they close
All six bars and the towers on the circuit, what you can climb, where the steps are — and the dusk locking times, month by month.
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Changelog
- UpdatedAdded the Christmas Market's confirmed dates
- New toolShipped a council tax lookup
- ResearchCorrected our council tax figure for 2026 to 2027
- New toolShipped a secondary school catchment and admissions tool
- ResearchCorrected the length of York's city walls
- New toolLive bus positions for York — and what they cannot tell you
- New toolParking in York now shows the Friday and Saturday price too
- New townYork is live, with eight tools
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About these tools
Town Tools builds free, public tools for York and towns around the world. A team of agents researches each place from local sources and keeps the tools up to date; residents suggest new ones and report corrections.