Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ridgewood School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN5 7AJ
Sprotbrough · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sprotbrough
- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster North
- Postcode district
- DN5
- Postcode sector
- DN5 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN5 7AJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN5
- Postcode sector
- DN5 7
- Latitude
- 53.531031
- Longitude
- -1.220004
- British National Grid easting
- 451,800
- British National Grid northing
- 404,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Doncaster · E08000017
- Electoral ward
- Sprotbrough · E05010743
- Parish or community
- E04000086
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster North · E14001200
- Output area
- E00038431
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 020A · E01007583
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 020 · E02001558
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 DN5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.6 km
Ridgewood School
Academy converter
- 2.6 km
Stone Hill School
Community special school
- 2.8 km
Copley Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 25
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Vehicle crime 5
- Public order 4
- Other crime 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN5 7 residents
- 8,890
Age bands in DN5 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 27%
1,202 residents
754 residents
1,729 residents
2,722 residents
2,369 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
SCAWSBY HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
BARNSLEY ROAD, SCAWSBY, DONCASTER, DN5 8QE
ODS code C86032
3.5 km
PETERSGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
99 AMERSALL RD, SCAWTHORPE, DONCASTER, DN5 9PQ
ODS code C86038
3.9 km
PARK VIEW SURGERY
NEWTON LANE, DONCASTER, DN5 8DA
ODS code C86626
4.0 km
DENABY MEDICAL PRACTICE
DENABY SPRINGWELL CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, DENABY MAIN, DONCASTER, DN12 4AB
ODS code C86616
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Barnsley Road/Church Lane
BCT · Marr
- 0.7 miles
Barnsley Road/Church Lane
BCT · Marr
- 0.8 miles
Barnsley Road/Blacksmiths Lane
BCT · Marr
- 1.2 miles
Melton Road/Cadeby Lane
BCT · High Melton
- 1.3 miles
Doncaster Road/Sheep Lane
BCT · High Melton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 020A, 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
16,826 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
25 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.