Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Fieldgate School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN8 4BF
Norton & Askern · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Norton & Askern
- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster North
- Postcode district
- DN8
- Postcode sector
- DN8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN8 4BF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 2005
- Terminated
- 1 March 2011
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN8
- Postcode sector
- DN8 4
- Latitude
- 53.625209
- Longitude
- -0.989699
- British National Grid easting
- 466,917
- British National Grid northing
- 414,769
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Doncaster · E08000017
- Electoral ward
- Norton & Askern · E05010740
- Parish or community
- E04000078
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster North · E14001200
- Output area
- E00038640
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 004A · E01007625
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 004 · E02001542
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 DN8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.7 km
Fieldgate School
Other independent special school
- 2.3 km
Thorne King Edward Primary School
Community school
- 2.7 km
Marshland Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 140
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 35
- Shoplifting 24
- Anti social behaviour 22
- Other theft 15
- Public order 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN8 4 residents
- 9,977
Age bands in DN8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.8%
1,997 residents
1,147 residents
2,491 residents
2,548 residents
1,653 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
NORTHFIELD SURGERY
THE VERMUYDEN CENTRE, FIELDSIDE, THORNE, DONCASTER, DN8 4BQ
ODS code C86018
2.0 km
THORNE MOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHESTNUT HOUSE SURGERY, THE VERMUYDEN CENTRE, FIELDSIDE, THORNE, DONCASTER, DN8 4BQ
ODS code C86614
2.0 km
FIELD ROAD SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, STAINFORTH, DONCASTER, DN7 5AF
ODS code C86037
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Sorrell Lane/Hayes Lane
BCT · Fosterhouses
- 0.7 miles
Sorrell Lane/Hayes Lane
BCT · Fosterhouses
- 0.7 miles
Mount Pleasant Road/Land Ends Road
BCT · Thorne
- 0.8 miles
Selby Road/Omega Boulevard
BCT · Thorne
- 0.8 miles
Omega Boulevard/Alpha Court
BCT · Thorne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 004A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,115 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
140 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 35 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.