Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Thorneberry School is the nearest published school at 609 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN8 5YU
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 5YU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN8
- Postcode sector
- DN8 5
- Latitude
- 53.603728
- Longitude
- -0.967800
- British National Grid easting
- 468,400
- British National Grid northing
- 412,400
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
- E00038691
- Lower layer super output area
- Doncaster 003E · E01007640
- 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
- 609 m
Thorneberry School
Other independent special school
- 783 m
Green Top
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Brooke Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,017
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 395
- Anti social behaviour 143
- Shoplifting 78
- Public order 78
- Other theft 63
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
1.1 km
THORNE MOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHESTNUT HOUSE SURGERY, THE VERMUYDEN CENTRE, FIELDSIDE, THORNE, DONCASTER, DN8 4BQ
ODS code C86614
1.1 km
FIELD ROAD SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, STAINFORTH, DONCASTER, DN7 5AF
ODS code C86037
4.1 km
HATFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
ASH HILL ROAD, HATFIELD, DONCASTER, DN7 6JH
ODS code C86003
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hatfield Road/Grampian Way
BCT · Thorne
- 0.1 miles
Hatfield Road/Marina View
BCT · Thorne
- 0.2 miles
Kirton Lane/Cotswold Road
BCT · Thorne
- 0.2 miles
Kirton Lane/Cotswold Road
BCT · Thorne
- 0.2 miles
Kirton Lane/Pennine Road
BCT · Thorne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Doncaster 003E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,701 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
1,017 published events cover 12 months, averaging 84.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 395 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.