Schools
55 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 8 secondary schools. XP East is the nearest published school at 969 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN4 5PN
Hexthorpe & Balby North · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster Central
- Postcode district
- DN4
- Postcode sector
- DN4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN4 5PN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN4
- Postcode sector
- DN4 5
- Latitude
- 53.504310
- Longitude
- -1.111939
- British National Grid easting
- 459,000
- British National Grid northing
- 401,211
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Doncaster · E08000017
- Electoral ward
- Hexthorpe & Balby North · E05010738
- Parish or community
- E43000171
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster Central · E14001198
- Output area
- E00038739
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 019A · E01007644
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 019 · E02001557
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore DN4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 8
- 969 m
XP East
Free schools
- 976 m
Lakeside Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
XP School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,611
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 429
- Vehicle crime 272
- Anti social behaviour 210
- Shoplifting 151
- Public order 124
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN4 5 residents
- 6,573
Age bands in DN4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.1%
1,283 residents
715 residents
2,153 residents
1,558 residents
864 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 66.7%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
13
within 5 km
THE BURNS PRACTICE
4 ALBION PLACE, BENNETTHOPRE, SOUTH PARADE, DONCASTER, DN1 2EG
ODS code C86007
2.0 km
REGENT SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
8-9 REGENT SQUARE, DONCASTER, DN1 2DS
ODS code C86006
2.2 km
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN HEALTH CENTRE
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN CENTRE, ST. SEPULCHRE GATE WEST, DONCASTER, DN1 3AP
ODS code Y05167
2.5 km
ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTRE
77 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2ET
ODS code C86029
2.5 km
MOUNT GROUP PRACTICE
54 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2JP
ODS code C86011
2.5 km
FRANCES STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 2 FRANCES STREET, DONCASTER, DN1 1JS
ODS code C86025
2.5 km
KINGTHORNE GROUP PRACTICE
KINGTHORNE HOUSE, 83A THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2EU
ODS code C86017
2.5 km
THE OAKWOOD SURGERY
MASHAM ROAD, CANTLEY, DONCASTER, DN4 6BU
ODS code C86012
2.5 km
THE SCOTT PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TG
ODS code C86019
2.6 km
ST. JOHNS GROUP PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TH
ODS code C86020
2.7 km
WEST END CLINIC
WEST END LANE, ROSSINGTON, DONCASTER, DN11 0PQ
ODS code C86621
3.4 km
PARK VIEW SURGERY
NEWTON LANE, DONCASTER, DN5 8DA
ODS code C86626
3.8 km
THE ROSSINGTON PRACTICE
GRANGE LANE, NEW ROSSINGTON, ROSSINGTON, DONCASTER, DN11 0LP
ODS code C86015
4.0 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Carolina Way/Wisconsin Drive
BCT · Lakeside
- 0.1 miles
Wilmington Drive/Carolina Way
BCT · Lakeside
- 0.1 miles
Wilmington Drive/Stadium Way
BCT · Lakeside
- 0.2 miles
White Rose Way/Lakeside Village
BCT · Lakeside
- 0.3 miles
Lakeside Boulevard/Carolina Way
BCT · Lakeside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 019A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,204 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,611 published events cover 12 months, averaging 134.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 429 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.