Property market
The five-year median is £228,750 from 4 recorded sales in DN6 8LX. 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.
DN6 8LX
Sprotbrough · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Doncaster
- Ward
- Sprotbrough
- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster North
- Postcode district
- DN6
- Postcode sector
- DN6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN6 8LX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN6
- Postcode sector
- DN6 8
- Latitude
- 53.601909
- Longitude
- -1.230457
- British National Grid easting
- 451,022
- British National Grid northing
- 411,978
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Doncaster · E08000017
- Electoral ward
- Sprotbrough · E05010743
- Parish or community
- E04000079
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster North · E14001200
- Output area
- E00038427
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 020C · E01007587
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 020 · E02001558
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
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Straight Lane, Skelbrooke, Doncaster, DN6 8LX | 6 February 2026 | £247,500 |
| 2, Straight Lane, Skelbrooke, Doncaster, DN6 8LX | 22 December 2025 | £500 |
| 5, Straight Lane, Skelbrooke, Doncaster, DN6 8LX | 13 November 2023 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 3.1 km
Owston Park Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 3.2 km
Upton Primary School
Community school
- 3.3 km
The Ridge Employability College
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other theft 3
- Burglary 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- DN6 8 residents
- 7,976
15 female, 15 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
GREAT NORTH MEDICAL GROUP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHESTNUT AVENUE, CARCROFT, DONCASTER, DN6 8AG
ODS code C86001
3.6 km
WHITE ROSE SURGERY
EXCHANGE STREET, SOUTH ELMSALL, PONTEFRACT, WF9 2RD
ODS code B87016
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Great North Road/New Close Lane
BCT · Barnsdale Bar
- 1.1 miles
Crabgate Lane/Green Lane
BCT · Skellow
- 1.1 miles
Crabgate Lane/Leyburn Road
BCT · Skellow
- 1.1 miles
Crabgate Lane/Leyburn Road
BCT · Skellow
- 1.2 miles
Woodfield Road/Warren House
BCT · Barnsdale Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 020C, 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
7,988 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
- 0
- 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
20 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Owston Park Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 2.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
14 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.