Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Green Top is the nearest published school at 977 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN8 5ES
Thorne & Moorends · Doncaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Thorne & Moorends
- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
- Postcode district
- DN8
- Postcode sector
- DN8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN8 5ES
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN8
- Postcode sector
- DN8 5
- Latitude
- 53.611855
- Longitude
- -0.972136
- British National Grid easting
- 468,100
- British National Grid northing
- 413,300
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
- E00038675
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 003D · E01007639
- Middle layer super output area
- Doncaster 003 · E02001541
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
- 17
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 977 m
Green Top
Academy converter
- 998 m
Thorneberry School
Other independent special school
- 1.2 km
Thorne King Edward Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,237
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 479
- Anti social behaviour 167
- Shoplifting 99
- Public order 97
- Criminal damage and arson 77
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN8 5 residents
- 8,418
Age bands in DN8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
1,246 residents
853 residents
1,997 residents
2,283 residents
1,884 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
NORTHFIELD SURGERY
THE VERMUYDEN CENTRE, FIELDSIDE, THORNE, DONCASTER, DN8 4BQ
ODS code C86018
432 m
THORNE MOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHESTNUT HOUSE SURGERY, THE VERMUYDEN CENTRE, FIELDSIDE, THORNE, DONCASTER, DN8 4BQ
ODS code C86614
432 m
FIELD ROAD SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, STAINFORTH, DONCASTER, DN7 5AF
ODS code C86037
4.0 km
HATFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
ASH HILL ROAD, HATFIELD, DONCASTER, DN7 6JH
ODS code C86003
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Field Side/Foundry Lane
BCT · Thorne
- 0.2 miles
Field Side/Lakeside Mews
BCT · Thorne
- 0.2 miles
Field Side/Clifton Court
BCT · Thorne
- 0.2 miles
Field Side/Durham Avenue
BCT · Thorne
- 0.3 miles
Thorne North Rail Station
RSE · Thorne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 003D, 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
6,853 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
1,237 published events cover 12 months, averaging 103.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 479 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.