Schools
92 open schools are in scope, including 57 primary and 14 secondary schools. E-Act Parkwood Academy is the nearest published school at 802 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S6 2FB
Hillsborough · Sheffield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hillsborough
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough
- Postcode district
- S6
- Postcode sector
- S6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S6 2FB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S6
- Postcode sector
- S6 2
- Latitude
- 53.405740
- Longitude
- -1.488539
- British National Grid easting
- 434,100
- British National Grid northing
- 390,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Sheffield · E08000039
- Electoral ward
- Hillsborough · E05010872
- Parish or community
- E43000173
- Westminster constituency
- Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough · E14001466
- Output area
- E00040975
- Lower layer super output area
- Sheffield 017D · E01008093
- Middle layer super output area
- Sheffield 017 · E02001627
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
- 92
- Primary
- 57
- Secondary
- 14
- 802 m
E-Act Parkwood Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 899 m
Sacred Heart School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Oasis Academy Watermead
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,076
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,434
- Anti social behaviour 536
- Criminal damage and arson 420
- Shoplifting 362
- Public order 348
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S6 2 residents
- 7,147
Age bands in S6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
849 residents
630 residents
2,475 residents
1,627 residents
1,223 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
40
within 5 km straight-line
TRAMWAYS MEDICAL CENTRE
54 HOLME LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4JQ
ODS code C88018
984 m
DYKES HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
156 DYKES HALL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 4GQ
ODS code C88045
1.2 km
FAR LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FAR LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4FA
ODS code C88021
1.3 km
HAROLD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 HAROLD STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3QW
ODS code C88059
1.4 km
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
360 HERRIES ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7HD
ODS code C88014
1.5 km
SOUTHEY GREEN MEDICAL CTR
281 SOUTHEY GREEN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7QB
ODS code C88086
1.6 km
FORGE HEALTH GROUP
PITSMOOR SURGERY, 151 BURNGREAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S3 9DL
ODS code C88008
1.7 km
WALKLEY HOUSE & STANNINGTON M.C
23 GREENHOW STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3TN
ODS code C88005
1.8 km
UPPERTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE
30 ADDY STREET, UPPERTHORPE, SHEFFIELD, S6 3FT
ODS code C88031
1.8 km
GREEN CROSS GROUP PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CARE SURGERY, 63 PALGRAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8GS
ODS code C88077
1.8 km
BUCHANAN ROAD SURGERY
72 BUCHANAN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8AL
ODS code C88011
2.2 km
TRAMWAYS AND MIDDLEWOOD MEDICAL CENTRES
FAIRLAWNS, 621 MIDDLEWOOD ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 1TT
ODS code C88043
2.3 km
THE BURNGREAVE SURGERY
SPITAL STREET HEALTH CENTRE, SPITAL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 9LB
ODS code C88048
2.5 km
ELM LANE SURGERY
104 ELM LANE, SHEFFIELD, S5 7TW
ODS code C88049
2.6 km
CROOKES PRACTICE
203 SCHOOL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S10 1GN
ODS code C88079
2.6 km
PAGE HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
101 OWLER LANE, SHEFFIELD, S4 8GB
ODS code C88051
2.7 km
FOXHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
160 FOX HILL CRESCENT, SHEFFIELD, S6 1GA
ODS code C88009
2.8 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH CENTRE
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE, 53 GELL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 7QP
ODS code C88627
2.9 km
DEVONSHIRE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
126 DEVONSHIRE STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 7SF
ODS code C88076
3.0 km
BARNSLEY ROAD SURGERY
899 BARNSLEY ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 0QJ
ODS code C88091
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 40 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Penistone Road/Livesey Street
BCT · Owlerton
- 0.3 miles
Penistone Road/Bradfield Road
BCT · Owlerton
- 0.3 miles
Penistone Road/Lowther Road
BCT · Owlerton
- 0.3 miles
Penrith Road/Penrith Crescent
BCT · Shirecliffe
- 0.4 miles
Penistone Road/Burton Street
BCT · Hillfoot
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sheffield 017D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,408 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
4,076 published events cover 12 months, averaging 339.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,434 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.