Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. West Road Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 240 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN8 4SY
Thorne & Moorends · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Doncaster
- Ward
- Thorne & Moorends
- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
- Postcode district
- DN8
- Postcode sector
- DN8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN8 4SY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN8
- Postcode sector
- DN8 4
- Latitude
- 53.632022
- Longitude
- -0.951064
- British National Grid easting
- 469,461
- British National Grid northing
- 415,564
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Doncaster · E08000017
- Electoral ward
- Thorne & Moorends · E05010745
- Parish or community
- E04000095
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme · E14001199
- Output area
- E00038699
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 001C · E01007634
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 001 · E02001539
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 73, Marshland Road, Moorends, Doncaster, DN8 4SY | 20 March 2020 | £77,000 |
| 75, Marshland Road, Moorends, Doncaster, DN8 4SY | 8 February 2013 | £34,000 |
| 73, Marshland Road, Moorends, Doncaster, DN8 4SY | 9 October 1995 | £12,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 240 m
West Road Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 471 m
Marshland Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Thorne King Edward Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 690
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 300
- Criminal damage and arson 86
- Anti social behaviour 73
- Other theft 41
- Public order 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- DN8 4 residents
- 9,977
9 female, 9 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DN8 4 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+
- 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
2
within 5 km
NORTHFIELD SURGERY
THE VERMUYDEN CENTRE, FIELDSIDE, THORNE, DONCASTER, DN8 4BQ
ODS code C86018
2.3 km
THORNE MOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHESTNUT HOUSE SURGERY, THE VERMUYDEN CENTRE, FIELDSIDE, THORNE, DONCASTER, DN8 4BQ
ODS code C86614
2.3 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
- 0.0 miles
Marshland Road/Alexandra Road
BCT · Moorends
- 0.0 miles
Marshland Road/Alexandra Road
BCT · Moorends
- 0.1 miles
Marshland Road/Bloomhill Court
BCT · Moorends
- 0.1 miles
Marshland Road/Grange Road
BCT · Moorends
- 0.2 miles
Northgate/Grange Road
BCT · Moorends
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 001C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,736 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 10
- 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
690 published events cover 12 months, averaging 57.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 300 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.