Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Carcroft Primary School is the nearest published school at 162 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN6 8BU
Adwick le Street & Carcroft · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Doncaster
- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster North
- Postcode district
- DN6
- Postcode sector
- DN6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN6 8BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN6
- Postcode sector
- DN6 8
- Latitude
- 53.584158
- Longitude
- -1.181671
- British National Grid easting
- 454,273
- British National Grid northing
- 410,039
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
- E00037858
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 005E · E01007473
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 005 · E02001543
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
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Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Uldale Walk, Carcroft, Doncaster, DN6 8BU | 15 December 2020 | £65,000 |
| 7, Uldale Walk, Carcroft, Doncaster, DN6 8BU | 1 November 2016 | £56,500 |
| 9, Uldale Walk, Carcroft, Doncaster, DN6 8BU | 9 October 2009 | £81,250 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 162 m
Carcroft Primary School
Academy converter
- 830 m
Owston Park Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
North Ridge Community School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 996
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 406
- Criminal damage and arson 142
- Anti social behaviour 113
- Vehicle crime 86
- Other theft 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 29
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- DN6 8 residents
- 7,976
16 female, 13 male
Age bands in DN6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
1,410 residents
834 residents
1,768 residents
2,051 residents
1,760 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DN6 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+
- 30.8%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 30.8%
- Gigabit-capable
- 30.8%
- 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
6
within 5 km
GREAT NORTH MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHESTNUT AVENUE, CARCROFT, DONCASTER, DN6 8AG
ODS code C86001
303 m
ASKERN MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASKERN HEALTH CENTRE, SPA POOL ROAD, ASKERN, DONCASTER, DN6 0HZ
ODS code C86605
4.1 km
THE LAKESIDE PRACTICE
THE WHITE WINGS CENTRE, SPA POOL ROAD, ASKERN, DONCASTER, DN6 0HZ
ODS code C86016
4.1 km
THE RANSOME PRACTICE
BENTLEY HEALTH CENTRE, ASKERN ROAD, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0JX
ODS code C86002
4.3 km
PETERSGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
99 AMERSALL RD, SCAWTHORPE, DONCASTER, DN5 9PQ
ODS code C86038
4.6 km
DON VALLEY HEALTHCARE
128 HIGH STREET, BENTLEY, DONCASTER, DN5 0AT
ODS code C86023
4.8 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Park Avenue/Martindale Walk
BCT · Carcroft
- 0.1 miles
High Street/Queens Road
BCT · Carcroft
- 0.1 miles
Owston Road/High Street
BCT · Carcroft
- 0.1 miles
High Street/Queens Road
BCT · Carcroft
- 0.1 miles
Owston Road/High Street
BCT · Carcroft
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 005E, 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
4,075 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 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
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- 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
Recorded crime
996 published events cover 12 months, averaging 83 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 406 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.