Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. Carcroft Primary School is the nearest published school at 958 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN6 7AJ
Adwick le Street & Carcroft · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster North
- Postcode district
- DN6
- Postcode sector
- DN6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN6 7AJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2009
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN6
- Postcode sector
- DN6 7
- Latitude
- 53.576876
- Longitude
- -1.174940
- British National Grid easting
- 454,728
- British National Grid northing
- 409,234
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Doncaster · E08000017
- Electoral ward
- Adwick le Street & Carcroft · E05010728
- Parish or community
- E43000171
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster North · E14001200
- Output area
- E00038035
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 009F · E01007504
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 009 · E02001547
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 DN6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 3
- 958 m
Carcroft Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Adwick Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Outwood Academy Adwick
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,023
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 429
- Criminal damage and arson 140
- Anti social behaviour 97
- Vehicle crime 90
- Public order 61
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN6 7 residents
- 10,950
Age bands in DN6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.4%
2,174 residents
1,316 residents
2,906 residents
2,942 residents
1,698 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
GREAT NORTH MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHESTNUT AVENUE, CARCROFT, DONCASTER, DN6 8AG
ODS code C86001
1.0 km
THE RANSOME PRACTICE
BENTLEY HEALTH CENTRE, ASKERN ROAD, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0JX
ODS code C86002
3.4 km
PETERSGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
99 AMERSALL RD, SCAWTHORPE, DONCASTER, DN5 9PQ
ODS code C86038
3.7 km
DON VALLEY HEALTHCARE
128 HIGH STREET, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0AT
ODS code C86023
3.9 km
SCAWSBY HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
BARNSLEY ROAD, SCAWSBY, DONCASTER, DN5 8QE
ODS code C86032
4.5 km
ASKERN MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASKERN HEALTH CENTRE, SPA POOL ROAD, ASKERN, DONCASTER, DN6 0HZ
ODS code C86605
4.6 km
THE LAKESIDE PRACTICE
THE WHITE WINGS CENTRE, SPA POOL ROAD, ASKERN, DONCASTER, DN6 0HZ
ODS code C86016
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Station Road/Bentley Moor Lane
BCT · Adwick le Street
- 0.0 miles
Station Road/Brooklands Road
BCT · Adwick le Street
- 0.2 miles
Church Lane/Victoria Road
BCT · Adwick le Street
- 0.3 miles
Church Lane/Victoria Road
BCT · Adwick le Street
- 0.4 miles
Owston Road/Skellow Road
BCT · Carcroft
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 009F, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,065 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,023 published events cover 12 months, averaging 85.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 429 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.