Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 37 primary and 9 secondary schools. Harrison College is the nearest published school at 603 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN4 8DQ
Hexthorpe & Balby North · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster Central
- Postcode district
- DN4
- Postcode sector
- DN4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN4 8DQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN4
- Postcode sector
- DN4 8
- Latitude
- 53.508005
- Longitude
- -1.139004
- British National Grid easting
- 457,200
- British National Grid northing
- 401,600
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
- E00038157
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 028D · E01007534
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 028 · E02001566
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
- 60
- Primary
- 37
- Secondary
- 9
- 603 m
Harrison College
Special post 16 institution
- 726 m
St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 753 m
Balby Central Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,965
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,981
- Shoplifting 727
- Anti social behaviour 547
- Public order 470
- Criminal damage and arson 459
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN4 8 residents
- 8,820
Age bands in DN4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.2%
1,847 residents
966 residents
2,925 residents
2,145 residents
891 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.
GP practices
18
within 5 km straight-line
THE SCOTT PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TG
ODS code C86019
831 m
ST. JOHNS GROUP PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TH
ODS code C86020
865 m
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN HEALTH CENTRE
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN CENTRE, ST. SEPULCHRE GATE WEST, DONCASTER, DN1 3AP
ODS code Y05167
1.4 km
THE BURNS PRACTICE
4 ALBION PLACE, BENNETTHOPRE, SOUTH PARADE, DONCASTER, DN1 2EG
ODS code C86007
1.8 km
REGENT SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
8-9 REGENT SQUARE, DONCASTER, DN1 2DS
ODS code C86006
1.8 km
FRANCES STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 2 FRANCES STREET, DONCASTER, DN1 1JS
ODS code C86025
1.9 km
PARK VIEW SURGERY
NEWTON LANE, DONCASTER, DN5 8DA
ODS code C86626
2.1 km
ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTRE
77 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2ET
ODS code C86029
2.2 km
KINGTHORNE GROUP PRACTICE
KINGTHORNE HOUSE, 83A THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2EU
ODS code C86017
2.3 km
MOUNT GROUP PRACTICE
54 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2JP
ODS code C86011
2.3 km
SCAWSBY HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
BARNSLEY ROAD, SCAWSBY, DONCASTER, DN5 8QE
ODS code C86032
3.7 km
DON VALLEY HEALTHCARE
128 HIGH STREET, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0AT
ODS code C86023
4.3 km
THE OAKWOOD SURGERY
MASHAM ROAD, CANTLEY, DONCASTER, DN4 6BU
ODS code C86012
4.3 km
PETERSGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
99 AMERSALL RD, SCAWTHORPE, DONCASTER, DN5 9PQ
ODS code C86038
4.4 km
EDLINGTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
THE MARTINWELLS CENTRE, THOMPSON AVENUE, EDLINGTON, DONCASTER, DN12 1JD
ODS code C86026
4.7 km
THE NAYAR PRACTICE
THOMPSON AVENUE, EDLINGTON, DONCASTER, DN12 1JD
ODS code C86033
4.7 km
THE RANSOME PRACTICE
BENTLEY HEALTH CENTRE, ASKERN ROAD, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0JX
ODS code C86002
4.8 km
WEST END CLINIC
WEST END LANE, ROSSINGTON, DONCASTER, DN11 0PQ
ODS code C86621
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Balby Carr Bank/Cross Bank
BCT · Balby
- 0.1 miles
Balby Carr Bank/St Catherines Avenue
BCT · Balby
- 0.3 miles
Balby Road/Carr View Avenue
BCT · Balby
- 0.3 miles
Balby Road/Queens Street
BCT · Balby
- 0.4 miles
Balby Carr Bank/Herons Way
BCT · Balby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 028D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,966 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,965 published events cover 12 months, averaging 497.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,981 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.