Schools
85 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 14 secondary schools. E-Act Parkwood Academy is the nearest published school at 123 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S5 8UG
Southey · Sheffield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S5 8UG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S5
- Postcode sector
- S5 8
- Latitude
- 53.413752
- Longitude
- -1.485013
- British National Grid easting
- 434,328
- British National Grid northing
- 390,893
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
- E00041006
- Lower layer super output area
- Sheffield 012D · E01008092
- 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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 287, Penrith Road, Sheffield, S5 8UG | 16 June 2017 | £130,000 |
| 287, Penrith Road, Sheffield, S5 8UG | 22 December 2016 | £101,000 |
| 287, Penrith Road, Sheffield, S5 8UG | 7 April 2005 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 85
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 14
- 123 m
E-Act Parkwood Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 500 m
Oasis Academy Watermead
Academy sponsor led
- 799 m
Watercliffe Meadow Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,345
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,683
- Criminal damage and arson 566
- Anti social behaviour 517
- Public order 351
- Shoplifting 276
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- S5 8 residents
- 14,346
3 female, 7 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S5 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
34
within 5 km
SOUTHEY GREEN MEDICAL CTR
281 SOUTHEY GREEN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7QB
ODS code C88086
766 m
GREEN CROSS GROUP PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CARE SURGERY, 63 PALGRAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8GS
ODS code C88077
907 m
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
360 HERRIES ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7HD
ODS code C88014
1.0 km
BUCHANAN ROAD SURGERY
72 BUCHANAN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8AL
ODS code C88011
1.4 km
FAR LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FAR LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4FA
ODS code C88021
1.6 km
DYKES HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
156 DYKES HALL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 4GQ
ODS code C88045
1.7 km
TRAMWAYS MEDICAL CENTRE
54 HOLME LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4JQ
ODS code C88018
1.7 km
ELM LANE SURGERY
104 ELM LANE, SHEFFIELD, S5 7TW
ODS code C88049
1.8 km
FORGE HEALTH GROUP
PITSMOOR SURGERY, 151 BURNGREAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S3 9DL
ODS code C88008
2.1 km
TRAMWAYS AND MIDDLEWOOD MEDICAL CENTRES
FAIRLAWNS, 621 MIDDLEWOOD ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 1TT
ODS code C88043
2.1 km
FOXHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
160 FOX HILL CRESCENT, SHEFFIELD, S6 1GA
ODS code C88009
2.1 km
BARNSLEY ROAD SURGERY
899 BARNSLEY ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 0QJ
ODS code C88091
2.3 km
HAROLD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 HAROLD STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3QW
ODS code C88059
2.3 km
PAGE HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
101 OWLER LANE, SHEFFIELD, S4 8GB
ODS code C88051
2.6 km
FIRTH PARK SURGERY
398-402 FIRTH PARK ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 6HH
ODS code C88035
2.6 km
WALKLEY HOUSE & STANNINGTON M.C
23 GREENHOW STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3TN
ODS code C88005
2.7 km
UPPERTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE
30 ADDY STREET, UPPERTHORPE, SHEFFIELD, S6 3FT
ODS code C88031
2.7 km
GRENOSIDE SURGERY
60 GRENO CRESCENT, GRENOSIDE, SHEFFIELD, S35 8NX
ODS code C88054
2.8 km
THE BURNGREAVE SURGERY
SPITAL STREET HEALTH CENTRE, SPITAL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 9LB
ODS code C88048
3.0 km
UPWELL STREET SURGERY
93 UPWELL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S4 8AN
ODS code C88027
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 34 matching practices.
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Penrith Road/Herries Road
BCT · Shirecliffe
- 0.0 miles
Penrith Road/Herries Road
BCT · Shirecliffe
- 0.1 miles
Herries Road/Galsworthy Road
BCT · Shirecliffe
- 0.1 miles
Herries Road/Galsworthy Road
BCT · Shirecliffe
- 0.1 miles
Longley Avenue West/Teynham Road
BCT · Shirecliffe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sheffield 012D, 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
697 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
- 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
- 2
- 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
4,345 published events cover 12 months, averaging 362.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,683 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.