Dronfield
Dronfield is covered by postcode district S18. It is in the North East Derbyshire council area, Derbyshire.
Every postcode in Dronfield, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 11
- In use before 2020: 462
Of the 473 postcodes in Dronfield that ONS places, 11 are new since 2020 and 462 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.3023, longitude -1.4750. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The 5 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Dronfield?
Homes sold for a typical £303,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 5.7% on the 12 months before. At 360 of the 462 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 16 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 8 of its 473 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Dronfield, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Dronfield?
Homes in Dronfield sold for a typical £303,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 228 sales, up 5.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £397,475 96 sales
- Semi-detached £278,750 96 sales
- Terraced £217,250 26 sales
- Flat or maisonette £135,000 10 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole S18 district, Dronfield's main postcode district: a typical £300,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Dronfield: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Dronfield?
11 of the 473 postcodes now in use in Dronfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 332 homes sold in Dronfield were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S18 district, 0%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Dronfield | Across the S18 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 228 (0%) | 0 of 263 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 0 of 332 (0%) | 0 of 371 (0%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Dronfield?
Ofcom reports on 462 of the 473 postcodes in Dronfield. At 360 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Dronfield at risk of flooding?
8 of the 473 postcodes in Dronfield have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 16 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Dronfield?
The open schools at the postcodes in Dronfield (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Dronfield Infant School450 m 199 pupils, 270 places
- Dronfield Junior School450 m 319 pupils, 360 places
- Lenthall Infant and Nursery School800 m 82 pupils, 90 places
- Holmesdale Infant School950 m 150 pupils, 150 places
- Dronfield Stonelow Junior School1.2 km 139 pupils, 172 places
- Gorseybrigg Primary School and Nursery1.2 km 252 pupils, 210 places
- St Andrew's CofE Methodist (Aided) Primary School1.3 km 193 pupils, 226 places
- Northfield Junior School1.5 km 165 pupils, 160 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Dronfield?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Dronfield is Dronfield Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.
- Dronfield Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
- Dore & Totley Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
- Chesterfield Rail Station Railway station 8.0 kmDrive
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Dronfield?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Dronfield. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Dronfield Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01246 412242 0 mWalk
- Stubley Medical Centre Phone 01246 296970 950 mWalk
- Oakhill Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01246 296900 1.2 kmWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Dronfield safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 851 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Dronfield over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 75 September 2025
- 65 October 2025
- 75 November 2025
- 72 December 2025
- 48 January 2026
- 59 February 2026
- 89 March 2026
- 66 April 2026
- 69 May 2026
- 75 June 2026
- 82 July 2026
- 76 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 23, other crime 16, robbery 5, possession of weapons 5, theft from the person 4, bicycle theft 2.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Dronfield?
- District, borough or city council
- North East Derbyshire
- County council
- Derbyshire
- Parliamentary constituency
- North East Derbyshire
- Police force area
- Derbyshire
- Region
- East Midlands
- Country
- England
- MP
- Louise Sandher-Jones (Labour)
All 473 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources
Moving to Dronfield
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell North East Derbyshire about council tax Council tax, on ne-derbyshire.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Dronfield
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Dronfield postcodes
473 postcodes in use in Dronfield, by district:
That district is in the S postcode area.
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Places near Dronfield
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Dronfield's £303,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Dronfield
- What is it like to live in Dronfield?
- Homes sold for a typical £303,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 5.7% on the 12 months before. At 360 of the 462 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 16 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 8 of its 473 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Dronfield, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Dronfield?
- Dronfield is covered by postcode district S18, across 473 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Dronfield in?
- Dronfield is in the North East Derbyshire council area, and Derbyshire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Dronfield?
- Dronfield is in the North East Derbyshire parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Louise Sandher-Jones (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Dronfield?
- Homes in Dronfield sold for a typical £303,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 228 sales, up 5.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Dronfield?
- In Dronfield, primary schools at its postcodes include Dronfield Infant School, Dronfield Junior School and Lenthall Infant and Nursery School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Dronfield have a railway station?
- Yes: Dronfield is 400 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Dronfield, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Dronfield?
- Ofcom reports on 462 of the 473 postcodes in Dronfield. At 360 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Dronfield at risk of flooding?
- 8 of the 473 postcodes in Dronfield have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 16 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Dronfield?
- 11 of the 473 postcodes now in use in Dronfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 332 homes sold in Dronfield were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S18 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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