[3] The town was listed in the 2019 Sunday Times report on the Best Places to Live in northern England.

[7][8] A Bronze Age mound outside Driffield was excavated in the 19th century, the contents of which are now kept in the British Museum.

[13] Driffield Town Hall is no longer used for public events and was acquired by The Bell Hotel in 1986.

[16] The town is home to Driffield Show, the United Kingdom’s largest one-day annual agricultural show,[17][18] as well as the Driffield Steam and Vintage Rally – an event held each August[19] showcasing historical vehicles including traction engines, fairground organs, tractors and vintage cars and trucks.

The rally is particularly known[20][21] for the Saturday evening road-run of the steam engines and other vehicles into Driffield town centre, an event which invariably attracts large crowds of spectators.

This is maintained by the Driffield Navigation Trust and the group hosts an annual raft race and open day gala at the River Head.

The town is served by Driffield railway station on the Yorkshire Coast Line, with services currently run by Northern and has direct trains to Sheffield, Doncaster, York, Hull, Beverley, Bridlington, and Scarborough.

[34]) There is a small Roman Catholic Church dedicated to Our Lady and Saint Edward that was built in 1886.

[40] Driffield Christian Fellowship is an Elim Pentecostal church who have a building on Wansford Road.

Children walk through the main street shouting an ancient rhyme to shopkeepers in return for money and goodies.

The cry is "Here we are at our town's end...With a shoulder of mutton and a crown to spend...Are we downhearted?..No!...Shall we win?...Yes!...

Now to this present day, there are two main men's team who both play at the second highest league in the East Riding.

The town has a cricket club, the first team of which play in the ECB Yorkshire Premier League North.

First class cricketers Andrew Gale, Richard Pyrah, Steven Patterson, Jonny Bairstow, Ishara Amerasinghe and Abid Ali have all played for the club.

[47] For a catchment area the size of Driffield, the club is relatively successful, with both the men's and ladies first XIs being promoted from their respective YHA Yorkshire Premier Divisions at the end of the 2013–14 season (6th tier of English Hockey) to the North League Division 2 East and North League Division 2 South East respectively (5th tier of English Hockey).

Bands including Napalm Death, The Mission, and most notably Happy Mondays would record there.