Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 3 secondary schools. Wales Primary School is the nearest published school at 224 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S26 5PS
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 5PS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 February 2008
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S26
- Postcode sector
- S26 5
- Latitude
- 53.342621
- Longitude
- -1.284890
- British National Grid easting
- 447,709
- British National Grid northing
- 383,094
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
- E00039255
- 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
- 31
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 3
- 224 m
Wales Primary School
Community school
- 633 m
Kiveton Park Meadows Junior School
Academy converter
- 740 m
Wales High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 420
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 164
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Shoplifting 52
- Burglary 27
- Public order 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S26 5 residents
- 3,878
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
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
KIVETON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
KIVETON PARK PRIMARY CARE, CHAPEL WAY, KIVETON PARK, SHEFFIELD, S26 6QU
ODS code C87004
1.1 km
SWALLOWNEST HEALTH CENTRE
WORKSOP ROAD, SWALLOWNEST, SHEFFIELD, S26 4WD
ODS code C87008
3.1 km
KILLAMARSH MEDICAL PRACTICE
209 SHEFFIELD ROAD, KILLAMARSH, SHEFFIELD, S21 1DX
ODS code C81091
3.1 km
SOTHALL & BEIGHTON HEALTH CENTRES
24 ECKINGTON ROAD, BEIGHTON, SHEFFIELD, S20 1HQ
ODS code C88023
3.7 km
DINNINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
ANSTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 15 QUARRY LANE, NORTH ANSTON, SHEFFIELD, S25 4DB
ODS code C87002
4.4 km
CRYSTAL PEAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, CRYSTAL PEAKS, 15 PEAKS MOUNT, SHEFFIELD, S20 7HZ
ODS code C88648
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
School Road/School Close
BCT · Wales
- 0.1 miles
Wales Road/Church Street
BCT · Wales
- 0.1 miles
Wales Road/Lodge Hill Drive
BCT · Wales
- 0.1 miles
School Road/School Close
BCT · Wales
- 0.3 miles
School Road/Cherry Tree Road
BCT · Wales
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
420 published events cover 12 months, averaging 35 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 164 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.