Schools
56 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 7 secondary schools. XP School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN4 8DW
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 8DW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2002
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN4
- Postcode sector
- DN4 8
- Latitude
- 53.502060
- Longitude
- -1.121289
- British National Grid easting
- 458,383
- British National Grid northing
- 400,953
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
- 56
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 7
- 1.1 km
XP School
Free schools
- 1.2 km
XP East
Free schools
- 1.2 km
Harrison College
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,469
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 445
- Vehicle crime 229
- Anti social behaviour 174
- Shoplifting 132
- Public order 107
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
14
within 5 km straight-line
THE BURNS PRACTICE
4 ALBION PLACE, BENNETTHOPRE, SOUTH PARADE, DONCASTER, DN1 2EG
ODS code C86007
2.1 km
THE SCOTT PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TG
ODS code C86019
2.1 km
ST. JOHNS GROUP PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TH
ODS code C86020
2.1 km
REGENT SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
8-9 REGENT SQUARE, DONCASTER, DN1 2DS
ODS code C86006
2.3 km
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN HEALTH CENTRE
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN CENTRE, ST. SEPULCHRE GATE WEST, DONCASTER, DN1 3AP
ODS code Y05167
2.3 km
FRANCES STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 2 FRANCES STREET, DONCASTER, DN1 1JS
ODS code C86025
2.5 km
ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTRE
77 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2ET
ODS code C86029
2.6 km
MOUNT GROUP PRACTICE
54 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2JP
ODS code C86011
2.7 km
KINGTHORNE GROUP PRACTICE
KINGTHORNE HOUSE, 83A THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2EU
ODS code C86017
2.7 km
THE OAKWOOD SURGERY
MASHAM ROAD, CANTLEY, DONCASTER, DN4 6BU
ODS code C86012
3.2 km
PARK VIEW SURGERY
NEWTON LANE, DONCASTER, DN5 8DA
ODS code C86626
3.4 km
WEST END CLINIC
WEST END LANE, ROSSINGTON, DONCASTER, DN11 0PQ
ODS code C86621
3.6 km
THE ROSSINGTON PRACTICE
GRANGE LANE, NEW ROSSINGTON, ROSSINGTON, DONCASTER, DN11 0LP
ODS code C86015
4.2 km
SCAWSBY HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
BARNSLEY ROAD, SCAWSBY, DONCASTER, DN5 8QE
ODS code C86032
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Woodfield Way/White Rose Way
BCT · Balby
- 0.3 miles
Woodfield Way/White Rose Way
BCT · Balby
- 0.3 miles
Woodfield Way/Balby Carr Bank
BCT · Balby
- 0.3 miles
Woodfield Way/Bullrush Grove
BCT · Balby
- 0.3 miles
White Rose Way/Park & Ride
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
1,469 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 445 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.