Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 8 secondary schools. Fox Hill Primary is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S6 1EX
Stocksbridge and Upper Don · Sheffield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sheffield
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge
- Postcode district
- S6
- Postcode sector
- S6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S6 1EX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S6
- Postcode sector
- S6 1
- Latitude
- 53.430387
- Longitude
- -1.512039
- British National Grid easting
- 432,519
- British National Grid northing
- 392,731
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Sheffield · E08000039
- Electoral ward
- Stocksbridge and Upper Don · E05016246
- Parish or community
- E04013491
- Westminster constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge · E14001423
- Output area
- E00041190
- Lower layer super output area
- Sheffield 008G · E01033280
- Middle layer super output area
- Sheffield 008 · E02001618
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 S6
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Millstone Barn, Hirst Common Lane, Sheffield, S6 1EX | 19 July 2002 | £155,000 |
| Hurst End House, Hirst Common Lane, Sheffield, S6 1EX | 24 October 1997 | £120,000 |
| Millstone Barn, Hirst Common Lane, Sheffield, S6 1EX | 30 June 1995 | £95,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 8
- 1.1 km
Fox Hill Primary
Academy sponsor led
- 1.5 km
Grenoside Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Parson Cross Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,122
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 521
- Anti social behaviour 150
- Criminal damage and arson 130
- Public order 62
- Vehicle crime 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- S6 1 residents
- 11,491
8 female, 8 male
Age bands in S6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.8%
2,007 residents
1,311 residents
3,293 residents
3,073 residents
1,815 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S6 1 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+
- 88.9%
- 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
- 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
22
within 5 km straight-line
FOXHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
160 FOX HILL CRESCENT, SHEFFIELD, S6 1GA
ODS code C88009
714 m
TRAMWAYS AND MIDDLEWOOD MEDICAL CENTRES
FAIRLAWNS, 621 MIDDLEWOOD ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 1TT
ODS code C88043
1.3 km
GRENOSIDE SURGERY
60 GRENO CRESCENT, GRENOSIDE, SHEFFIELD, S35 8NX
ODS code C88054
1.4 km
GREEN CROSS GROUP PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CARE SURGERY, 63 PALGRAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8GS
ODS code C88077
1.9 km
OUGHTIBRIDGE SURGERY
CHURCH STREET, OUGHTIBRIDGE, SHEFFIELD, S35 0FW
ODS code C88040
2.1 km
FAR LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FAR LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4FA
ODS code C88021
2.4 km
SOUTHEY GREEN MEDICAL CTR
281 SOUTHEY GREEN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7QB
ODS code C88086
2.6 km
DYKES HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
156 DYKES HALL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 4GQ
ODS code C88045
2.8 km
BUCHANAN ROAD SURGERY
72 BUCHANAN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8AL
ODS code C88011
2.9 km
TRAMWAYS MEDICAL CENTRE
54 HOLME LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4JQ
ODS code C88018
3.2 km
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
360 HERRIES ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7HD
ODS code C88014
3.4 km
ECCLESFIELD GROUP PRACT
96A MILL ROAD, ECCLESFIELD, SHEFFIELD, S35 9XQ
ODS code C88039
3.5 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
98A MILL ROAD, ECCLESFIELD, SHEFFIELD, S35 9XQ
ODS code C88095
3.5 km
ELM LANE SURGERY
104 ELM LANE, SHEFFIELD, S5 7TW
ODS code C88049
3.5 km
BARNSLEY ROAD SURGERY
899 BARNSLEY ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 0QJ
ODS code C88091
3.7 km
CHAPELGREEN PRACTICE
1 BEVAN WAY, CHAPELTOWN, SHEFFIELD, S35 1RN
ODS code C88010
3.9 km
WALKLEY HOUSE & STANNINGTON M.C
23 GREENHOW STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3TN
ODS code C88005
4.3 km
HAROLD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 HAROLD STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3QW
ODS code C88059
4.3 km
FIRTH PARK SURGERY
398-402 FIRTH PARK ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 6HH
ODS code C88035
4.6 km
FORGE HEALTH GROUP
PITSMOOR SURGERY, 151 BURNGREAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S3 9DL
ODS code C88008
4.7 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Fox Hill Crescent/Edge Well Crescent
BCT · Fox Hill
- 0.4 miles
Fox Hill Crescent/Fox Hill Avenue
BCT · Fox Hill
- 0.4 miles
Fox Hill Crescent/Fox Hill Avenue
BCT · Fox Hill
- 0.4 miles
Fox Hill Crescent/Edge Well Crescent
BCT · Fox Hill
- 0.5 miles
Grenoside Crematorium/Car Park
BCT · Grenoside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sheffield 008G, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,118 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 1
- 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
1,122 published events cover 12 months, averaging 93.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 521 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.