Property market
The five-year median is £30,900,000 from 1 recorded sale in DN5 8AR. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Doncaster is £170,784 in June 2026, up 4.4% year on year.
DN5 8AR
Bentley · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN5 8AR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN5
- Postcode sector
- DN5 8
- Latitude
- 53.527880
- Longitude
- -1.149296
- British National Grid easting
- 456,491
- British National Grid northing
- 403,803
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Doncaster · E08000017
- Electoral ward
- Bentley · E05010731
- Parish or community
- E04000091
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster North · E14001200
- Output area
- E00038432
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 021A · E01007584
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 021 · E02001559
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheswold Park Hospital, Cheswold Lane, Doncaster, DN5 8AR | 8 October 2024 | £30,900,000 |
| Gr33n House, Cheswold Lane, Doncaster, DN5 8AR | 16 February 2015 | £420,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 8
- 414 m
Waterside School
Other independent special school
- 883 m
Kirkby Avenue Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
DN Colleges Group
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,581
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,714
- Shoplifting 855
- Public order 675
- Anti social behaviour 610
- Criminal damage and arson 526
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 54
- 9 female, 45 male
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 54.0
- DN5 8 residents
- 10,863
Age bands in DN5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- 1,551 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- 1,063 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- 2,436 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- 2,946 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
- 2,248 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DN5 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
- 0%
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
14
within 5 km straight-line
PARK VIEW SURGERY
NEWTON LANE, DONCASTER, DN5 8DA
ODS code C86626
1.1 km
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN HEALTH CENTRE
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN CENTRE, ST. SEPULCHRE GATE WEST, DONCASTER, DN1 3AP
ODS code Y05167
1.2 km
FRANCES STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 2 FRANCES STREET, DONCASTER, DN1 1JS
ODS code C86025
1.3 km
SCAWSBY HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
BARNSLEY ROAD, SCAWSBY, DONCASTER, DN5 8QE
ODS code C86032
1.6 km
REGENT SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
8-9 REGENT SQUARE, DONCASTER, DN1 2DS
ODS code C86006
1.7 km
ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTRE
77 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2ET
ODS code C86029
1.7 km
KINGTHORNE GROUP PRACTICE
KINGTHORNE HOUSE, 83A THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2EU
ODS code C86017
1.7 km
MOUNT GROUP PRACTICE
54 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2JP
ODS code C86011
1.8 km
THE BURNS PRACTICE
4 ALBION PLACE, BENNETTHOPRE, SOUTH PARADE, DONCASTER, DN1 2EG
ODS code C86007
1.9 km
DON VALLEY HEALTHCARE
128 HIGH STREET, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0AT
ODS code C86023
2.0 km
PETERSGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
99 AMERSALL RD, SCAWTHORPE, DONCASTER, DN5 9PQ
ODS code C86038
2.1 km
THE SCOTT PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TG
ODS code C86019
2.3 km
ST. JOHNS GROUP PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TH
ODS code C86020
2.3 km
THE RANSOME PRACTICE
BENTLEY HEALTH CENTRE, ASKERN ROAD, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0JX
ODS code C86002
2.6 km
Nearby transport
- 169 m
Sprotbrough Road/Mayfield Road
BCT · Sprotbrough
- 177 m
Sprotbrough Road/Northfield Road
BCT · Sprotbrough
- 209 m
Sprotbrough Road/York Road
BCT · Sprotbrough
- 306 m
Sprotbrough Road/Anchorage Lane
BCT · Sprotbrough
- 329 m
York Road/Sprotborough Road
BCT · York Road
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 021A, 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
14,865 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 8 secondary schools. Waterside School is the nearest published school at 414 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,581 published events cover 12 months, averaging 632 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,714 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.