Property market
The five-year median is £166,250 from 4 recorded sales in S12 4XB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sheffield is £219,539 in June 2026, up 5.0% year on year.
S12 4XB
Birley · Sheffield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S12 4XB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S12
- Postcode sector
- S12 4
- Latitude
- 53.349979
- Longitude
- -1.405817
- British National Grid easting
- 439,651
- British National Grid northing
- 383,839
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Sheffield · E08000039
- Electoral ward
- Birley · E05010859
- Parish or community
- E43000173
- Westminster constituency
- Sheffield South East · E14001470
- Output area
- E00039732
- Lower layer super output area
- Sheffield 076B · E01007839
- Middle layer super output area
- Sheffield 076 · E02006869
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
Property
57 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 40, Hopefield Avenue, Sheffield, S12 4XB | 1 September 2023 | £176,000 |
| 76, Hopefield Avenue, Sheffield, S12 4XB | 30 June 2023 | £6,875 |
| 20, Hopefield Avenue, Sheffield, S12 4XB | 30 September 2022 | £156,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 67
- Primary
- 47
- Secondary
- 8
- 879 m
Birley Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 918 m
Gleadless Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Intake Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,816
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 858
- Shoplifting 457
- Anti social behaviour 396
- Criminal damage and arson 248
- Public order 184
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 85
- Postcode households
- 37
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- S12 4 residents
- 13,278
45 female, 40 male
Age bands in S12 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
2,106 residents
1,368 residents
3,285 residents
3,734 residents
2,581 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S12 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
26
within 5 km
JAUNTY SPRINGS HEALTH CENTRE
53 JAUNTY WAY, SHEFFIELD, S12 3DZ
ODS code C88050
844 m
BIRLEY HEALTH CENTRE
120 BIRLEY LANE, SHEFFIELD, S12 3BP
ODS code C88025
1.2 km
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
462 RICHMOND ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S13 8NA
ODS code C88085
1.2 km
CHARNOCK HEALTH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
WHITE LANE, SHEFFIELD, S12 3GH
ODS code C88032
1.3 km
STONECROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
871 GLEADLESS ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S12 2LJ
ODS code C88022
1.4 km
WHITE HOUSE SURGERY
1 FAIRFAX RISE, SHEFFIELD, S2 1SL
ODS code C88020
2.3 km
THE THORPE PRACTICE
MOORTHORPE BANK, OWLTHORPE, SHEFFIELD, S20 6PD
ODS code C88647
2.4 km
WOODHOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
5-7 SKELTON LANE, WOODHOUSE, SHEFFIELD, S13 7LY
ODS code C88072
2.4 km
EAST BANK MEDICAL CENTRE
555 EAST BANK ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S2 2AG
ODS code C88088
2.4 km
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
432 HANDSWORTH ROAD, HANDSWORTH, SHEFFIELD, S13 9BZ
ODS code C88036
2.8 km
MANOR AND PARK GROUP PRACTICE
204 HARBOROUGH AVENUE, SHEFFIELD, S2 1QU
ODS code C88090
3.0 km
GLEADLESS MEDICAL CENTRE
636 GLEADLESS ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S14 1PQ
ODS code C88019
3.1 km
NORFOLK PARK HEALTH CENTRE
227 PARK GRANGE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S2 3TA
ODS code C88006
3.2 km
CRYSTAL PEAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, CRYSTAL PEAKS, 15 PEAKS MOUNT, SHEFFIELD, S20 7HZ
ODS code C88648
3.5 km
DOVERCOURT GROUP PRACTICE
DOVERCOURT SURGERY, 3 SKYE EDGE AVENUE, SHEFFIELD, S2 5FX
ODS code C88087
3.7 km
HEELEY GREEN SURGERY
302 GLEADLESS ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S2 3AJ
ODS code C88073
3.8 km
MOSBOROUGH HEALTH CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 34 QUEEN STREET, MOSBOROUGH, SHEFFIELD, S20 5BQ
ODS code C88078
3.9 km
CLOVER GROUP PRACTICE
DARNALL PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 290 MAIN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S9 4QH
ODS code C88069
3.9 km
CARRFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
CARRFIELD STREET, SHEFFIELD, S8 9SG
ODS code C88082
4.1 km
CLOVER NORTH DARNALL HEALTH CENTRE
2 YORK ROAD, DARNALL, SHEFFIELD, S9 5DH
ODS code C88084
4.3 km
Showing 20 of 26 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
- 0.1 miles
Birley Moor Road/Hopefield Avenue
BCT · Frecheville
- 0.1 miles
Birley Moor Road/Hopefield Avenue
BCT · Frecheville
- 0.2 miles
Birley Moor Road/Wardlow Road
BCT · Frecheville
- 0.2 miles
Birley Moor Road/Heathfield Road
BCT · Frecheville
- 0.2 miles
Silkstone Road/Silkstone Crescent
BCT · Frecheville
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sheffield 076B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,059 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
- 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
Schools
67 open schools are in scope, including 47 primary and 8 secondary schools. Birley Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 879 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,816 published events cover 12 months, averaging 234.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 858 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.