Property market
The five-year median is £190,000 from 5 recorded sales in S61 2RT. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Rotherham is £190,069 in June 2026, up 2.4% year on year.
S61 2RT
Hoober · Rotherham · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S61 2RT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S61
- Postcode sector
- S61 2
- Latitude
- 53.462973
- Longitude
- -1.438720
- British National Grid easting
- 437,362
- British National Grid northing
- 396,392
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Rotherham · E08000018
- Electoral ward
- Hoober · E05013003
- Parish or community
- E04012118
- Westminster constituency
- Rawmarsh and Conisbrough · E14001436
- Output area
- E00038996
- Lower layer super output area
- Rotherham 007A · E01007696
- Middle layer super output area
- Rotherham 007 · E02001584
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 S61
Property
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Strafford Place, Thorpe Hesley, Rotherham, S61 2RT | 12 June 2025 | £209,000 |
| 13, Strafford Place, Thorpe Hesley, Rotherham, S61 2RT | 27 March 2025 | £210,000 |
| 16, Strafford Place, Thorpe Hesley, Rotherham, S61 2RT | 9 October 2024 | £105,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 6
- 676 m
Thorpe Hesley Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Chapeltown Academy
Free schools 16 to 19
- 2.0 km
Ecclesfield School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 261
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 90
- Anti social behaviour 57
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Vehicle crime 22
- Burglary 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- S61 2 residents
- 12,242
26 female, 24 male
Age bands in S61 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.6%
1,917 residents
1,293 residents
2,960 residents
3,574 residents
2,523 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S61 2 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
13
within 5 km
THORPE HESLEY SURGERY
SOUGH HALL ROAD, THORPE HESLEY, ROTHERHAM, S61 2QP
ODS code C87604
630 m
ECCLESFIELD GROUP PRACT
96A MILL ROAD, ECCLESFIELD, SHEFFIELD, S35 9XQ
ODS code C88039
2.7 km
MILL ROAD SURGERY
98A MILL ROAD, ECCLESFIELD, SHEFFIELD, S35 9XQ
ODS code C88095
2.7 km
CHAPELGREEN PRACTICE
1 BEVAN WAY, CHAPELTOWN, SHEFFIELD, S35 1RN
ODS code C88010
2.7 km
SHIREGREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
492 BELLHOUSE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 0RG
ODS code C88070
3.7 km
HOYLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HOYLAND CENTRE, HIGH CROFT, HOYLAND, BARNSLEY, S74 9AF
ODS code C85022
4.1 km
WALDERSLADE SURGERY
HIGH CROFT, HOYLAND, BARNSLEY, S74 9AF
ODS code C85008
4.1 km
BARNSLEY ROAD SURGERY
899 BARNSLEY ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 0QJ
ODS code C88091
4.4 km
GREASBROUGH MEDICAL CENTRE
MUNSBROUGH RISE, GREASBROUGH, ROTHERHAM, S61 4RB
ODS code C87603
4.6 km
GREENSIDE SURGERY
GREENSIDE, GREASBROUGH, ROTHERHAM, S61 4PT
ODS code C87020
4.7 km
GRENOSIDE SURGERY
60 GRENO CRESCENT, GRENOSIDE, SHEFFIELD, S35 8NX
ODS code C88054
4.7 km
ELM LANE SURGERY
104 ELM LANE, SHEFFIELD, S5 7TW
ODS code C88049
4.8 km
BUCHANAN ROAD SURGERY
72 BUCHANAN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8AL
ODS code C88011
4.9 km
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
Barnsley Road/Strafford Place
BCT · Thorpe Hesley
- 0.1 miles
Barnsley Road/Wentworth Close
BCT · Thorpe Hesley
- 0.1 miles
Barnsley Road/Wentworth Close
BCT · Thorpe Hesley
- 0.2 miles
Hesley Lane/Brook Hill
BCT · Thorpe Hesley
- 0.2 miles
Chapelfield Road/Thornwell Lane
BCT · Thorpe Hesley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rotherham 007A, 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
13,999 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
50 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 6 secondary schools. Thorpe Hesley Primary School is the nearest published school at 676 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
261 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 90 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.