Schools
112 open schools are in scope, including 71 primary and 16 secondary schools. Bethany School is the nearest published school at 728 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S6 3BL
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S6 3BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S6
- Postcode sector
- S6 3
- Latitude
- 53.392508
- Longitude
- -1.484021
- British National Grid easting
- 434,411
- British National Grid northing
- 388,530
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
- E00040875
- Lower layer super output area
- Sheffield 026C · E01008072
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Gilpin Street, Sheffield, S6 3BL | 21 February 2014 | £45,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 112
- Primary
- 71
- Secondary
- 16
- 728 m
Bethany School
Other independent school
- 728 m
Netherthorpe Primary School
Community school
- 791 m
St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9,001
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,994
- Anti social behaviour 1,009
- Shoplifting 969
- Public order 898
- Other theft 581
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- S6 3 residents
- 7,982
7 female, 6 male
Age bands in S6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 19.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.5%
1,280 residents
1,653 residents
2,957 residents
1,575 residents
967 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S6 3 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
47
within 5 km
UPPERTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE
30 ADDY STREET, UPPERTHORPE, SHEFFIELD, S6 3FT
ODS code C88031
346 m
HAROLD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 HAROLD STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3QW
ODS code C88059
598 m
WALKLEY HOUSE & STANNINGTON M.C
23 GREENHOW STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3TN
ODS code C88005
1.2 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH CENTRE
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE, 53 GELL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 7QP
ODS code C88627
1.4 km
FORGE HEALTH GROUP
PITSMOOR SURGERY, 151 BURNGREAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S3 9DL
ODS code C88008
1.5 km
DEVONSHIRE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
126 DEVONSHIRE STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 7SF
ODS code C88076
1.5 km
CROOKES PRACTICE
203 SCHOOL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S10 1GN
ODS code C88079
1.6 km
THE BURNGREAVE SURGERY
SPITAL STREET HEALTH CENTRE, SPITAL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 9LB
ODS code C88048
1.6 km
TRAMWAYS MEDICAL CENTRE
54 HOLME LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4JQ
ODS code C88018
1.6 km
CLOVER CITY PRACTICE
1 MULBERRY STREET, SHEFFIELD, S1 2PJ
ODS code Y05349
1.6 km
DYKES HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
156 DYKES HALL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 4GQ
ODS code C88045
2.0 km
BROOMHILL SURGERY
5 LAWSON ROAD, BROOMHILL, SHEFFIELD, S10 5BU
ODS code C88028
2.1 km
DUKE MEDICAL CENTRE
28 TALBOT ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S2 2TD
ODS code C88030
2.4 km
FAR LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FAR LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4FA
ODS code C88021
2.4 km
PORTER BROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
9 SUNDERLAND STREET, SHEFFIELD, S11 8HN
ODS code C88007
2.4 km
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
360 HERRIES ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7HD
ODS code C88014
2.5 km
SELBORNE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1 SELBORNE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S10 5ND
ODS code C88083
2.8 km
MANCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
484 MANCHESTER ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S10 5PN
ODS code C88044
2.8 km
SHARROW LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
129 SHARROW LANE, SHEFFIELD, S11 8AN
ODS code C88060
2.8 km
PAGE HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
101 OWLER LANE, SHEFFIELD, S4 8GB
ODS code C88051
2.9 km
Showing 20 of 47 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
- 0.1 miles
Infirmary Road/Portland Street
BCT · Upperthorpe
- 0.1 miles
Infirmary Road/Portland Street
BCT · Upperthorpe
- 0.1 miles
Penistone Road/West Don Street
BCT · Neepsend
- 0.1 miles
Penistone Road/West Don Street
BCT · Neepsend
- 0.1 miles
Albert Terrace Road/Infirmary Road
BCT · Upperthorpe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sheffield 026C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,400 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 6
- 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
9,001 published events cover 12 months, averaging 750.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,994 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.