Schools
58 open schools are in scope, including 37 primary and 8 secondary schools. Waterside School is the nearest published school at 480 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN5 9SB
Bentley · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bentley
- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster North
- Postcode district
- DN5
- Postcode sector
- DN5 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN5 9SB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN5
- Postcode sector
- DN5 9
- Latitude
- 53.530527
- Longitude
- -1.146090
- British National Grid easting
- 456,700
- 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
- Bentley · E05010731
- Parish or community
- E43000171
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster North · E14001200
- Output area
- E00038064
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 013D · E01007517
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 013 · E02001551
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
- 58
- Primary
- 37
- Secondary
- 8
- 480 m
Waterside School
Other independent special school
- 650 m
Kirkby Avenue Primary School
Community school
- 914 m
DN Colleges Group
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,120
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,555
- Shoplifting 888
- Anti social behaviour 591
- Public order 566
- Criminal damage and arson 490
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN5 9 residents
- 10,845
Age bands in DN5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.4%
1,983 residents
1,167 residents
3,051 residents
2,741 residents
1,751 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
FRANCES STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 2 FRANCES STREET, DONCASTER, DN1 1JS
ODS code C86025
1.3 km
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN HEALTH CENTRE
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN CENTRE, ST. SEPULCHRE GATE WEST, DONCASTER, DN1 3AP
ODS code Y05167
1.3 km
PARK VIEW SURGERY
NEWTON LANE, DONCASTER, DN5 8DA
ODS code C86626
1.4 km
ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTRE
77 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2ET
ODS code C86029
1.6 km
SCAWSBY HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
BARNSLEY ROAD, SCAWSBY, DONCASTER, DN5 8QE
ODS code C86032
1.6 km
KINGTHORNE GROUP PRACTICE
KINGTHORNE HOUSE, 83A THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2EU
ODS code C86017
1.6 km
REGENT SQUARE GROUP PRACTICE
8-9 REGENT SQUARE, DONCASTER, DN1 2DS
ODS code C86006
1.6 km
MOUNT GROUP PRACTICE
54 THORNE ROAD, DONCASTER, DN1 2JP
ODS code C86011
1.7 km
DON VALLEY HEALTHCARE
128 HIGH STREET, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0AT
ODS code C86023
1.7 km
THE BURNS PRACTICE
4 ALBION PLACE, BENNETTHOPRE, SOUTH PARADE, DONCASTER, DN1 2EG
ODS code C86007
1.9 km
PETERSGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
99 AMERSALL RD, SCAWTHORPE, DONCASTER, DN5 9PQ
ODS code C86038
2.0 km
THE RANSOME PRACTICE
BENTLEY HEALTH CENTRE, ASKERN ROAD, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0JX
ODS code C86002
2.3 km
THE SCOTT PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TG
ODS code C86019
2.6 km
ST. JOHNS GROUP PRACTICE
GREENFIELD LANE, BALBY, DONCASTER, DN4 0TH
ODS code C86020
2.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bentley Road/Hunt Lane
BCT · Bentley
- 0.1 miles
Bentley Road/Hunt Lane
BCT · Bentley
- 0.1 miles
Sprotbrough Road/York Road
BCT · Sprotbrough
- 0.1 miles
York Road/Sprotborough Road
BCT · York Road
- 0.2 miles
Sprotbrough Road/Mayfield Road
BCT · Sprotbrough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 013D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,557 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
7,120 published events cover 12 months, averaging 593.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,555 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.