Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 3 secondary schools. Wales Primary School is the nearest published school at 756 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S26 6RL
Wales · Rotherham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wales
- Local authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rother Valley
- Postcode district
- S26
- Postcode sector
- S26 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S26 6RL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 December 2001
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S26
- Postcode sector
- S26 6
- Latitude
- 53.342973
- Longitude
- -1.297276
- British National Grid easting
- 446,884
- British National Grid northing
- 383,125
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
- 26
- Secondary
- 3
- 756 m
Wales Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Kiveton Park Meadows Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Wales High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 293
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 119
- Anti social behaviour 49
- Burglary 19
- Public order 19
- Other theft 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S26 6 residents
- 3,851
Age bands in S26 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
690 residents
444 residents
987 residents
1,162 residents
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
KIVETON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
KIVETON PARK PRIMARY CARE, CHAPEL WAY, KIVETON PARK, SHEFFIELD, S26 6QU
ODS code C87004
1.9 km
KILLAMARSH MEDICAL PRACTICE
209 SHEFFIELD ROAD, KILLAMARSH, SHEFFIELD, S21 1DX
ODS code C81091
2.6 km
SWALLOWNEST HEALTH CENTRE
WORKSOP ROAD, SWALLOWNEST, SHEFFIELD, S26 4WD
ODS code C87008
2.6 km
SOTHALL & BEIGHTON HEALTH CENTRES
24 ECKINGTON ROAD, BEIGHTON, SHEFFIELD, S20 1HQ
ODS code C88023
2.9 km
CRYSTAL PEAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, CRYSTAL PEAKS, 15 PEAKS MOUNT, SHEFFIELD, S20 7HZ
ODS code C88648
3.8 km
MOSBOROUGH HEALTH CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 34 QUEEN STREET, MOSBOROUGH, SHEFFIELD, S20 5BQ
ODS code C88078
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Mansfield Road/East Terrace
BCT · Wales Bar
- 0.1 miles
Mansfield Road/Cricket Field Lane
BCT · Wales Bar
- 0.1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
293 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 119 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.