Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 3 secondary schools. Wales Primary School is the nearest published school at 634 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S26 5ND
Wales · Rotherham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wales
- Local authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rother Valley
- Postcode district
- S26
- Postcode sector
- S26 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S26 5ND
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2006
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S26
- Postcode sector
- S26 5
- Latitude
- 53.344302
- Longitude
- -1.294070
- British National Grid easting
- 447,096
- British National Grid northing
- 383,275
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Rotherham · E08000018
- Electoral ward
- Wales · E05013015
- Parish or community
- E04000122
- Westminster constituency
- Rother Valley · E14001451
- Output area
- E00039269
- Lower layer super output area
- Rotherham 031D · E01007750
- Middle layer super output area
- Rotherham 031 · E02001608
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 S26
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 3
- 634 m
Wales Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Kiveton Park Meadows Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Wales High School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 326
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 127
- Anti social behaviour 57
- Shoplifting 29
- Public order 19
- Burglary 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- S26 5 residents
- 3,878
1 female, 0 male
Age bands in S26 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
700 residents
378 residents
953 residents
947 residents
722 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S26 5 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
6
within 5 km
KIVETON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
KIVETON PARK PRIMARY CARE, CHAPEL WAY, KIVETON PARK, SHEFFIELD, S26 6QU
ODS code C87004
1.7 km
SWALLOWNEST HEALTH CENTRE
WORKSOP ROAD, SWALLOWNEST, SHEFFIELD, S26 4WD
ODS code C87008
2.6 km
KILLAMARSH MEDICAL PRACTICE
209 SHEFFIELD ROAD, KILLAMARSH, SHEFFIELD, S21 1DX
ODS code C81091
2.8 km
SOTHALL & BEIGHTON HEALTH CENTRES
24 ECKINGTON ROAD, BEIGHTON, SHEFFIELD, S20 1HQ
ODS code C88023
3.2 km
CRYSTAL PEAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, CRYSTAL PEAKS, 15 PEAKS MOUNT, SHEFFIELD, S20 7HZ
ODS code C88648
4.0 km
DINNINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
ANSTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 QUARRY LANE, NORTH ANSTON, SHEFFIELD, S25 4DB
ODS code C87002
4.9 km
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
- 0.2 miles
Mansfield Road/East Terrace
BCT · Wales Bar
- 0.2 miles
Mansfield Road/Cricket Field Lane
BCT · Wales Bar
- 0.2 miles
School Road/Almond Tree Road
BCT · Wales Bar
- 0.2 miles
School Road/Almond Tree Road
BCT · Wales Bar
- 0.2 miles
Mansfield Road/Wales Common
BCT · Wales Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rotherham 031D, 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
19,791 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
326 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 127 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.