Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 47 primary and 9 secondary schools. Fox Hill Primary is the nearest published school at 280 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S6 1GB
Southey · Sheffield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Southey
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough
- Postcode district
- S6
- Postcode sector
- S6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S6 1GB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2003
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S6
- Postcode sector
- S6 1
- Latitude
- 53.428951
- Longitude
- -1.499684
- British National Grid easting
- 433,341
- British National Grid northing
- 392,577
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
- E00040984
- Lower layer super output area
- Sheffield 009B · E01008086
- Middle layer super output area
- Sheffield 009 · E02001619
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 63
- Primary
- 47
- Secondary
- 9
- 280 m
Fox Hill Primary
Academy sponsor led
- 876 m
Mercia Northridge School
Academy sponsor led
- 878 m
Chaucer School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,744
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,124
- Criminal damage and arson 364
- Anti social behaviour 317
- Shoplifting 201
- Public order 183
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S6 1 residents
- 11,491
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
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
25
within 5 km straight-line
FOXHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
160 FOX HILL CRESCENT, SHEFFIELD, S6 1GA
ODS code C88009
154 m
GRENOSIDE SURGERY
60 GRENO CRESCENT, GRENOSIDE, SHEFFIELD, S35 8NX
ODS code C88054
1.1 km
GREEN CROSS GROUP PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CARE SURGERY, 63 PALGRAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8GS
ODS code C88077
1.1 km
TRAMWAYS AND MIDDLEWOOD MEDICAL CENTRES
FAIRLAWNS, 621 MIDDLEWOOD ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 1TT
ODS code C88043
1.5 km
SOUTHEY GREEN MEDICAL CTR
281 SOUTHEY GREEN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7QB
ODS code C88086
1.8 km
BUCHANAN ROAD SURGERY
72 BUCHANAN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8AL
ODS code C88011
2.0 km
FAR LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FAR LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4FA
ODS code C88021
2.2 km
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
360 HERRIES ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7HD
ODS code C88014
2.7 km
DYKES HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
156 DYKES HALL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 4GQ
ODS code C88045
2.7 km
ELM LANE SURGERY
104 ELM LANE, SHEFFIELD, S5 7TW
ODS code C88049
2.7 km
BARNSLEY ROAD SURGERY
899 BARNSLEY ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 0QJ
ODS code C88091
2.9 km
ECCLESFIELD GROUP PRACT
96A MILL ROAD, ECCLESFIELD, SHEFFIELD, S35 9XQ
ODS code C88039
2.9 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
98A MILL ROAD, ECCLESFIELD, SHEFFIELD, S35 9XQ
ODS code C88095
2.9 km
OUGHTIBRIDGE SURGERY
CHURCH STREET, OUGHTIBRIDGE, SHEFFIELD, S35 0FW
ODS code C88040
3.0 km
TRAMWAYS MEDICAL CENTRE
54 HOLME LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4JQ
ODS code C88018
3.0 km
CHAPELGREEN PRACTICE
1 BEVAN WAY, CHAPELTOWN, SHEFFIELD, S35 1RN
ODS code C88010
3.6 km
FIRTH PARK SURGERY
398-402 FIRTH PARK ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 6HH
ODS code C88035
3.8 km
SHIREGREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
492 BELLHOUSE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 0RG
ODS code C88070
3.9 km
HAROLD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 HAROLD STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3QW
ODS code C88059
4.0 km
FORGE HEALTH GROUP
PITSMOOR SURGERY, 151 BURNGREAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S3 9DL
ODS code C88008
4.0 km
Showing 20 of 25 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Fox Hill Crescent/Fox Hill Road
BCT · Fox Hill
- 0.0 miles
Fox Hill Road/Fox Hill Crescent
BCT · Fox Hill
- 0.0 miles
Fox Hill Road/Wilcox Road
BCT · Fox Hill
- 0.0 miles
Fox Hill Crescent/Fox Hill Road
BCT · Fox Hill
- 0.1 miles
Wilcox Road/Fox Hill Road
BCT · Fox Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sheffield 009B, 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
3,290 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2,744 published events cover 12 months, averaging 228.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,124 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.