Schools
56 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 8 secondary schools. Scawsby Junior Academy is the nearest published school at 129 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN5 8RN
Bentley · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bentley
- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster North
- Postcode district
- DN5
- Postcode sector
- DN5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN5 8RN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN5
- Postcode sector
- DN5 8
- Latitude
- 53.537407
- Longitude
- -1.165809
- British National Grid easting
- 455,384
- British National Grid northing
- 404,850
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
- E43000171
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster North · E14001200
- Output area
- E00038087
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 012A · E01007512
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 012 · E02001550
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
- 56
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 8
- 129 m
Scawsby Junior Academy
Academy converter
- 172 m
Scawsby Saltersgate Infant School
Community school
- 267 m
Scawthorpe Sunnyfields Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,375
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 718
- Shoplifting 406
- Anti social behaviour 307
- Criminal damage and arson 178
- Vehicle crime 172
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN5 8 residents
- 10,863
Age bands in DN5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
1,551 residents
1,063 residents
2,436 residents
2,946 residents
2,248 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.
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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
14
within 5 km
SCAWSBY HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
BARNSLEY ROAD, SCAWSBY, DONCASTER, DN5 8QE
ODS code C86032
142 m
PETERSGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
99 AMERSALL RD, SCAWTHORPE, DONCASTER, DN5 9PQ
ODS code C86038
724 m
DON VALLEY HEALTHCARE
128 HIGH STREET, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0AT
ODS code C86023
1.6 km
PARK VIEW SURGERY
NEWTON LANE, DONCASTER, DN5 8DA
ODS code C86626
1.8 km
THE RANSOME PRACTICE
BENTLEY HEALTH CENTRE, ASKERN ROAD, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0JX
ODS code C86002
1.9 km
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN HEALTH CENTRE
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN CENTRE, ST. SEPULCHRE GATE WEST, DONCASTER, DN1 3AP
ODS code Y05167
2.7 km
FRANCES STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 2 FRANCES STREET, DONCASTER, DN1 1JS
ODS code C86025
2.8 km
ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTRE
77 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2ET
ODS code C86029
3.1 km
KINGTHORNE GROUP PRACTICE
KINGTHORNE HOUSE, 83A THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2EU
ODS code C86017
3.1 km
REGENT SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
8-9 REGENT SQUARE, DONCASTER, DN1 2DS
ODS code C86006
3.1 km
MOUNT GROUP PRACTICE
54 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2JP
ODS code C86011
3.2 km
THE BURNS PRACTICE
4 ALBION PLACE, BENNETTHOPRE, SOUTH PARADE, DONCASTER, DN1 2EG
ODS code C86007
3.4 km
ST. JOHNS GROUP PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TH
ODS code C86020
3.5 km
THE SCOTT PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TG
ODS code C86019
3.5 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Barnsley Road/York Road
BCT · Scawsby
- 0.0 miles
York Road/Barnsley Road
BCT · Scawsby
- 0.2 miles
Cusworth Lane/St Martins Avenue
BCT · Cusworth
- 0.2 miles
Cusworth Lane/St Martins Avenue
BCT · Cusworth
- 0.2 miles
York Road/Alwyn Avenue
BCT · Scawthorpe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 012A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,653 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
2,375 published events cover 12 months, averaging 197.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 718 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.