Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 5 secondary schools. Dronfield Infant School is the nearest published school at 994 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S18 6YJ
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S18 6YJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S18
- Postcode sector
- S18 6
- Latitude
- 53.290892
- Longitude
- -1.468083
- British National Grid easting
- 435,555
- British National Grid northing
- 377,233
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
- E00100125
- Lower layer super output area
- North East Derbyshire 006C · E01019785
- Middle layer super output area
- North East Derbyshire 006 · E02004110
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
- 5
- 994 m
Dronfield Infant School
Community school
- 994 m
Dronfield Junior School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 483
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 159
- Violence and sexual offences 138
- Anti social behaviour 50
- Public order 27
- Other theft 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
DRONFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, DRONFIELD, S18 1PY
ODS code C81025
1.4 km
OAKHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
OAKHILL ROAD, DRONFIELD, S18 2EJ
ODS code C81070
1.8 km
STUBLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
7 STUBLEY DRIVE, DRONFIELD WOODHOUSE, DRONFIELD, S18 8QY
ODS code C81089
2.1 km
MEADOWGREEN HEALTH CENTRE
1 DYCHE CLOSE, JORDANTHORPE, SHEFFIELD, S8 8DJ
ODS code C88015
3.6 km
NEWBOLD SURGERY
3 WINDERMERE ROAD, NEWBOLD MOOR, CHESTERFIELD, S41 8DU
ODS code C81015
4.0 km
WHITTINGTON MOOR SURGERY
SCARSDALE ROAD, WHITTINGTON MOOR, CHESTERFIELD, S41 8NA
ODS code C81044
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Highfields Road
BCT · Dronfield
- 0.2 miles
Highfields Road
BCT · Dronfield
- 0.3 miles
Shetland Road 3
BCT · Dronfield
- 0.3 miles
Shetland Road 3
BCT · Dronfield
- 0.3 miles
Netherfields Crescent
BCT · Dronfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North East Derbyshire 006C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,535 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
483 published events cover 12 months, averaging 40.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 159 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.