Schools
69 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 9 secondary schools. Intake Primary School is the nearest published school at 394 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S12 2AL
Richmond · Sheffield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Richmond
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Heeley
- Postcode district
- S12
- Postcode sector
- S12 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S12 2AL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S12
- Postcode sector
- S12 2
- Latitude
- 53.355369
- Longitude
- -1.410504
- British National Grid easting
- 439,334
- British National Grid northing
- 384,436
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Sheffield · E08000039
- Electoral ward
- Richmond · E05010877
- Parish or community
- E43000173
- Westminster constituency
- Sheffield Heeley · E14001469
- Output area
- E00040543
- Lower layer super output area
- Sheffield 052B · E01008001
- Middle layer super output area
- Sheffield 052 · E02001662
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 S12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 69
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 9
- 394 m
Intake Primary School
Foundation school
- 630 m
Gleadless Primary School
Academy converter
- 974 m
Woodthorpe Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,655
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,256
- Shoplifting 483
- Anti social behaviour 466
- Criminal damage and arson 307
- Public order 235
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- S12 2 residents
- 12,113
1 female, 2 male
Age bands in S12 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
1,722 residents
1,139 residents
2,790 residents
3,561 residents
3,233 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S12 2 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
29
within 5 km
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
462 RICHMOND ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S13 8NA
ODS code C88085
638 m
JAUNTY SPRINGS HEALTH CENTRE
53 JAUNTY WAY, SHEFFIELD, S12 3DZ
ODS code C88050
987 m
STONECROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
871 GLEADLESS ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S12 2LJ
ODS code C88022
1.5 km
CHARNOCK HEALTH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
WHITE LANE, SHEFFIELD, S12 3GH
ODS code C88032
1.5 km
WHITE HOUSE SURGERY
1 FAIRFAX RISE, SHEFFIELD, S2 1SL
ODS code C88020
1.6 km
BIRLEY HEALTH CENTRE
120 BIRLEY LANE, SHEFFIELD, S12 3BP
ODS code C88025
1.9 km
EAST BANK MEDICAL CENTRE
555 EAST BANK ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S2 2AG
ODS code C88088
2.0 km
MANOR AND PARK GROUP PRACTICE
204 HARBOROUGH AVENUE, SHEFFIELD, S2 1QU
ODS code C88090
2.3 km
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
432 HANDSWORTH ROAD, HANDSWORTH, SHEFFIELD, S13 9BZ
ODS code C88036
2.6 km
WOODHOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
5-7 SKELTON LANE, WOODHOUSE, SHEFFIELD, S13 7LY
ODS code C88072
2.6 km
NORFOLK PARK HEALTH CENTRE
227 PARK GRANGE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S2 3TA
ODS code C88006
2.7 km
GLEADLESS MEDICAL CENTRE
636 GLEADLESS ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S14 1PQ
ODS code C88019
2.7 km
THE THORPE PRACTICE
MOORTHORPE BANK, OWLTHORPE, SHEFFIELD, S20 6PD
ODS code C88647
3.0 km
DOVERCOURT GROUP PRACTICE
DOVERCOURT SURGERY, 3 SKYE EDGE AVENUE, SHEFFIELD, S2 5FX
ODS code C88087
3.0 km
CLOVER GROUP PRACTICE
DARNALL PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 290 MAIN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S9 4QH
ODS code C88069
3.3 km
HEELEY GREEN SURGERY
302 GLEADLESS ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S2 3AJ
ODS code C88073
3.4 km
CARRFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
CARRFIELD STREET, SHEFFIELD, S8 9SG
ODS code C88082
3.7 km
CLOVER NORTH DARNALL HEALTH CENTRE
2 YORK ROAD, DARNALL, SHEFFIELD, S9 5DH
ODS code C88084
3.7 km
DUKE MEDICAL CENTRE
28 TALBOT ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S2 2TD
ODS code C88030
4.0 km
CRYSTAL PEAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, CRYSTAL PEAKS, 15 PEAKS MOUNT, SHEFFIELD, S20 7HZ
ODS code C88648
4.0 km
Showing 20 of 29 matching practices.
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Mansfield Road/Hollinsend Road
BCT · Intake
- 0.0 miles
Hollinsend Road/Mansfield Road
BCT · Intake
- 0.1 miles
Mansfield Road/Hollybank Road
BCT · Intake
- 0.1 miles
Mansfield Road/Wadsworth Road
BCT · Intake
- 0.1 miles
Mansfield Road/Wadsworth Road
BCT · Intake
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sheffield 052B, 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
8,613 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 0
- 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
3,655 published events cover 12 months, averaging 304.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,256 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.