Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 3 secondary schools. Dronfield Infant School is the nearest published school at 274 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S18 1SW
Dronfield South · North East Derbyshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dronfield South
- Local authority
- North East Derbyshire
- Constituency
- North East Derbyshire
- Postcode district
- S18
- Postcode sector
- S18 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S18 1SW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 January 2004
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S18
- Postcode sector
- S18 1
- Latitude
- 53.299069
- Longitude
- -1.467426
- British National Grid easting
- 435,592
- British National Grid northing
- 378,143
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North East Derbyshire · E07000038
- Electoral ward
- Dronfield South · E05012047
- Parish or community
- E04002867
- Westminster constituency
- North East Derbyshire · E14001391
- Output area
- E00100116
- Lower layer super output area
- North East Derbyshire 004D · E01019786
- Middle layer super output area
- North East Derbyshire 004 · E02004108
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 S18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 3
- 274 m
Dronfield Infant School
Community school
- 274 m
Dronfield Junior School
Community school
- 279 m
Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 768
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 263
- Shoplifting 169
- Anti social behaviour 71
- Public order 56
- Other theft 51
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S18 1 residents
- 6,969
Age bands in S18 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.8%
1,092 residents
609 residents
1,427 residents
1,898 residents
1,837 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
DRONFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, DRONFIELD, S18 1PY
ODS code C81025
629 m
OAKHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
OAKHILL ROAD, DRONFIELD, S18 2EJ
ODS code C81070
954 m
STUBLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
7 STUBLEY DRIVE, DRONFIELD WOODHOUSE, DRONFIELD, S18 8QY
ODS code C81089
1.6 km
MEADOWGREEN HEALTH CENTRE
1 DYCHE CLOSE, JORDANTHORPE, SHEFFIELD, S8 8DJ
ODS code C88015
2.7 km
BEAUCHIEF MEDICAL PRACTICE
23 ABBEY LANE, SHEFFIELD, S8 0BJ
ODS code C88046
4.6 km
WOODSEATS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE RODDICK BUILDING, 900 CHESTERFIELD ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S8 0SH
ODS code C88041
4.6 km
STEEL CITY GENERAL PRACTICE
148 BASLOW ROAD, TOTLEY, SHEFFIELD, S17 4DR
ODS code C88037
4.7 km
WHITTINGTON MOOR SURGERY
SCARSDALE ROAD, WHITTINGTON MOOR, CHESTERFIELD, S41 8NA
ODS code C81044
4.9 km
NEWBOLD SURGERY
3 WINDERMERE ROAD, NEWBOLD MOOR, CHESTERFIELD, S41 8DU
ODS code C81015
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Dronfield
- 0.1 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Dronfield
- 0.1 miles
Fletcher Avenue
BCT · Dronfield
- 0.1 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Dronfield
- 0.1 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Dronfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North East Derbyshire 004D, 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
17,805 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
768 published events cover 12 months, averaging 64 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 263 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.