S8 9DA Sheffield

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Gleadless Valley. Region: Yorkshire and The Humber.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Sheffield in 2026-27: Band D £2,510 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,673£1,952£2,231£2,510£3,068£3,626£4,184£5,020

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (44% of about 680 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsSheffield 10 million journeys in 2024–253.0 km
Dore and Totley 240,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km
Darnall 22,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m, 72 within 800 m; nearest Norton Lees Road/Cliffe Field Road70 m
Bus or coach stationSheffield Interchange/B6 Sheffield Centre3.2 km
Car parksAlderson Road Car Park1.8 km
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.0 km
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN53.5 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Veritas Health Centre410 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots490 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Broadfield Dental660 m
HospitalRoyal Hallamshire Hospital3.1 km
Police stationWoodseats Police Station890 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Rontec - Woodbank Cashzone440 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m; nearest Meersbrook Park 17 ha70 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,540 m²300 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5,520 m²720 m
Allotments3 within 800 m; nearest Norton St Pauls Allotment Gardens 6,620 m²200 m

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 317 residents in 151 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age3840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work76%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)51%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Welby Place.