Property market
The five-year median is £270,000 from 1 recorded sale in S6 2FU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sheffield is £219,539 in June 2026, up 5.0% year on year.
S6 2FU
Hillsborough · Sheffield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sheffield
- 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 2FU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S6
- Postcode sector
- S6 2
- Latitude
- 53.401533
- Longitude
- -1.490425
- British National Grid easting
- 433,978
- British National Grid northing
- 389,531
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
- E00041332
- Lower layer super output area
- Sheffield 026E · E01008161
- Middle layer super output area
- Sheffield 026 · E02001636
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 296, Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2FU | 24 June 2024 | £270,000 |
| 290, Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2FU | 23 February 2018 | £275,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 98
- Primary
- 63
- Secondary
- 14
- 608 m
Sacred Heart School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 736 m
Walkley Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Rivelin Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,648
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,246
- Anti social behaviour 538
- Criminal damage and arson 353
- Public order 301
- Shoplifting 262
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.
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
39
within 5 km
TRAMWAYS MEDICAL CENTRE
54 HOLME LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4JQ
ODS code C88018
785 m
HAROLD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 HAROLD STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3QW
ODS code C88059
942 m
DYKES HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
156 DYKES HALL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 4GQ
ODS code C88045
1.1 km
WALKLEY HOUSE & STANNINGTON M.C
23 GREENHOW STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3TN
ODS code C88005
1.3 km
UPPERTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE
30 ADDY STREET, UPPERTHORPE, SHEFFIELD, S6 3FT
ODS code C88031
1.3 km
FAR LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FAR LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4FA
ODS code C88021
1.4 km
FORGE HEALTH GROUP
PITSMOOR SURGERY, 151 BURNGREAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S3 9DL
ODS code C88008
1.7 km
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
360 HERRIES ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7HD
ODS code C88014
1.9 km
SOUTHEY GREEN MEDICAL CTR
281 SOUTHEY GREEN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7QB
ODS code C88086
2.1 km
CROOKES PRACTICE
203 SCHOOL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S10 1GN
ODS code C88079
2.1 km
GREEN CROSS GROUP PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CARE SURGERY, 63 PALGRAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8GS
ODS code C88077
2.3 km
THE BURNGREAVE SURGERY
SPITAL STREET HEALTH CENTRE, SPITAL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 9LB
ODS code C88048
2.3 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH CENTRE
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE, 53 GELL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 7QP
ODS code C88627
2.4 km
TRAMWAYS AND MIDDLEWOOD MEDICAL CENTRES
FAIRLAWNS, 621 MIDDLEWOOD ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 1TT
ODS code C88043
2.5 km
DEVONSHIRE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
126 DEVONSHIRE STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 7SF
ODS code C88076
2.6 km
CLOVER CITY PRACTICE
1 MULBERRY STREET, SHEFFIELD, S1 2PJ
ODS code Y05349
2.7 km
BUCHANAN ROAD SURGERY
72 BUCHANAN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8AL
ODS code C88011
2.7 km
BROOMHILL SURGERY
5 LAWSON ROAD, BROOMHILL, SHEFFIELD, S10 5BU
ODS code C88028
2.8 km
PAGE HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
101 OWLER LANE, SHEFFIELD, S4 8GB
ODS code C88051
2.9 km
ELM LANE SURGERY
104 ELM LANE, SHEFFIELD, S5 7TW
ODS code C88049
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 39 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Penistone Road/Burton Street
BCT · Hillfoot
- 0.2 miles
Penistone Road/Livesey Street
BCT · Owlerton
- 0.2 miles
Cuthbert Bank Road/Bamforth Street
BCT · Langsett Estate
- 0.2 miles
Penistone Road/Hobson Avenue
BCT · Hillfoot
- 0.2 miles
Bamforth St Platform to City
TMU · Langsett Road
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sheffield 026E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,770 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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.
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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 7
- 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
Schools
98 open schools are in scope, including 63 primary and 14 secondary schools. Sacred Heart School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy is the nearest published school at 608 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,648 published events cover 12 months, averaging 304 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,246 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.