Schools
44 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 6 secondary schools. Journey Education Group is the nearest published school at 342 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN4 8QY
Balby South · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Balby South
- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster Central
- Postcode district
- DN4
- Postcode sector
- DN4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN4 8QY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN4
- Postcode sector
- DN4 8
- Latitude
- 53.492801
- Longitude
- -1.149863
- British National Grid easting
- 456,500
- British National Grid northing
- 399,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Doncaster · E08000017
- Electoral ward
- Balby South · E05010730
- Parish or community
- E43000171
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster Central · E14001198
- Output area
- E00038012
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 029F · E01007503
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 029 · E02001567
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
- 44
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 6
- 342 m
Journey Education Group
Other independent special school
- 342 m
More Than Ed Independent School
Other independent special school
- 763 m
Carr Lodge Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,309
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 805
- Shoplifting 432
- Anti social behaviour 212
- Criminal damage and arson 178
- Vehicle crime 154
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
13
within 5 km straight-line
THE SCOTT PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TG
ODS code C86019
1.6 km
ST. JOHNS GROUP PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TH
ODS code C86020
1.6 km
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN HEALTH CENTRE
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN CENTRE, ST. SEPULCHRE GATE WEST, DONCASTER, DN1 3AP
ODS code Y05167
3.2 km
EDLINGTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
THE MARTINWELLS CENTRE, THOMPSON AVENUE, EDLINGTON, DONCASTER, DN12 1JD
ODS code C86026
3.2 km
THE NAYAR PRACTICE
THOMPSON AVENUE, EDLINGTON, DONCASTER, DN12 1JD
ODS code C86033
3.2 km
PARK VIEW SURGERY
NEWTON LANE, DONCASTER, DN5 8DA
ODS code C86626
3.3 km
THE BURNS PRACTICE
4 ALBION PLACE, BENNETTHOPRE, SOUTH PARADE, DONCASTER, DN1 2EG
ODS code C86007
3.6 km
REGENT SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
8-9 REGENT SQUARE, DONCASTER, DN1 2DS
ODS code C86006
3.6 km
FRANCES STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 2 FRANCES STREET, DONCASTER, DN1 1JS
ODS code C86025
3.7 km
ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTRE
77 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2ET
ODS code C86029
4.0 km
KINGTHORNE GROUP PRACTICE
KINGTHORNE HOUSE, 83A THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2EU
ODS code C86017
4.1 km
MOUNT GROUP PRACTICE
54 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2JP
ODS code C86011
4.1 km
WEST END CLINIC
WEST END LANE, ROSSINGTON, DONCASTER, DN11 0PQ
ODS code C86621
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Tickhill Road/Alverley Lane
BCT · Balby
- 0.1 miles
Tickhill Road/Alverley Lane
BCT · Balby
- 0.2 miles
Tickhill Road/Clayfields
BCT · Balby
- 0.2 miles
Tickhill Road/Clayfields
BCT · Balby
- 0.2 miles
Tickhill Road/Fulwood Drive
BCT · Balby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 029F, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,889 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2,309 published events cover 12 months, averaging 192.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 805 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.