Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Green Top is the nearest published school at 121 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN8 5XS
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 5XS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 January 2001
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN8
- Postcode sector
- DN8 5
- Latitude
- 53.607680
- Longitude
- -0.957123
- British National Grid easting
- 469,100
- British National Grid northing
- 412,850
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
- E00038682
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 003C · E01007638
- 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
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 121 m
Green Top
Academy converter
- 223 m
Thorneberry School
Other independent special school
- 552 m
Brooke Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,131
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 457
- Anti social behaviour 145
- Public order 86
- Shoplifting 78
- Criminal damage and arson 72
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
902 m
THORNE MOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHESTNUT HOUSE SURGERY, THE VERMUYDEN CENTRE, FIELDSIDE, THORNE, DONCASTER, DN8 4BQ
ODS code C86614
902 m
FIELD ROAD SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, STAINFORTH, DONCASTER, DN7 5AF
ODS code C86037
4.9 km
HATFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
ASH HILL ROAD, HATFIELD, DONCASTER, DN7 6JH
ODS code C86003
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Southfield Road/Miller Lane
BCT · Thorne
- 0.1 miles
Miller Lane/Peel Hill Road
BCT · Thorne
- 0.1 miles
Miller Lane/Southfield Road
BCT · Thorne
- 0.1 miles
Ellison Street/Elm Tree Grove
BCT · Thorne
- 0.1 miles
Ellison Street/West Street
BCT · Thorne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 003C, 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
5,355 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,131 published events cover 12 months, averaging 94.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 457 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.