Schools
82 open schools are in scope, including 52 primary and 13 secondary schools. E-Act Parkwood Academy is the nearest published school at 311 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S5 8NQ
Southey · Sheffield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Southey
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough
- Postcode district
- S5
- Postcode sector
- S5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S5 8NQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S5
- Postcode sector
- S5 8
- Latitude
- 53.414603
- Longitude
- -1.488418
- British National Grid easting
- 434,101
- British National Grid northing
- 390,986
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Sheffield · E08000039
- Electoral ward
- Southey · E05010879
- Parish or community
- E43000173
- Westminster constituency
- Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough · E14001466
- Output area
- E00041135
- Lower layer super output area
- Sheffield 012F · E01008124
- Middle layer super output area
- Sheffield 012 · E02001622
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 S5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 82
- Primary
- 52
- Secondary
- 13
- 311 m
E-Act Parkwood Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 743 m
Oasis Academy Watermead
Academy sponsor led
- 805 m
Parson Cross Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,540
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,755
- Criminal damage and arson 574
- Anti social behaviour 539
- Public order 363
- Shoplifting 334
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S5 8 residents
- 14,346
Age bands in S5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.2%
3,151 residents
1,672 residents
3,729 residents
3,139 residents
1,940 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
35
within 5 km straight-line
GREEN CROSS GROUP PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CARE SURGERY, 63 PALGRAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8GS
ODS code C88077
793 m
SOUTHEY GREEN MEDICAL CTR
281 SOUTHEY GREEN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7QB
ODS code C88086
870 m
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
360 HERRIES ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7HD
ODS code C88014
1.2 km
FAR LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FAR LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4FA
ODS code C88021
1.4 km
BUCHANAN ROAD SURGERY
72 BUCHANAN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8AL
ODS code C88011
1.5 km
DYKES HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
156 DYKES HALL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 4GQ
ODS code C88045
1.6 km
TRAMWAYS MEDICAL CENTRE
54 HOLME LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4JQ
ODS code C88018
1.6 km
TRAMWAYS AND MIDDLEWOOD MEDICAL CENTRES
FAIRLAWNS, 621 MIDDLEWOOD ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 1TT
ODS code C88043
1.8 km
FOXHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
160 FOX HILL CRESCENT, SHEFFIELD, S6 1GA
ODS code C88009
1.9 km
ELM LANE SURGERY
104 ELM LANE, SHEFFIELD, S5 7TW
ODS code C88049
2.0 km
FORGE HEALTH GROUP
PITSMOOR SURGERY, 151 BURNGREAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S3 9DL
ODS code C88008
2.3 km
BARNSLEY ROAD SURGERY
899 BARNSLEY ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 0QJ
ODS code C88091
2.4 km
HAROLD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 HAROLD STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3QW
ODS code C88059
2.4 km
WALKLEY HOUSE & STANNINGTON M.C
23 GREENHOW STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3TN
ODS code C88005
2.6 km
GRENOSIDE SURGERY
60 GRENO CRESCENT, GRENOSIDE, SHEFFIELD, S35 8NX
ODS code C88054
2.7 km
UPPERTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE
30 ADDY STREET, UPPERTHORPE, SHEFFIELD, S6 3FT
ODS code C88031
2.8 km
FIRTH PARK SURGERY
398-402 FIRTH PARK ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 6HH
ODS code C88035
2.8 km
PAGE HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
101 OWLER LANE, SHEFFIELD, S4 8GB
ODS code C88051
2.8 km
THE BURNGREAVE SURGERY
SPITAL STREET HEALTH CENTRE, SPITAL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 9LB
ODS code C88048
3.2 km
CROOKES PRACTICE
203 SCHOOL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S10 1GN
ODS code C88079
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 35 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Herries Road/Wordsworth Avenue
BCT · Southey Green
- 0.0 miles
Herries Road/Scraith Wood Drive
BCT · Southey Green
- 0.0 miles
Wordsworth Avenue/Herries Road
BCT · Southey Green
- 0.0 miles
Wordsworth Avenue/Cookson Road
BCT · Southey Green
- 0.1 miles
Wordsworth Avenue/Donovan Road
BCT · Southey Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sheffield 012F, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
268 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
4,540 published events cover 12 months, averaging 378.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,755 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.