Rotherham
Rotherham is covered by postcode districts S9, S60, S61, S65, S66 and S95. It is mostly in the Rotherham council area: 1,819 of its 1,828 postcodes. The others are in Sheffield.
Every postcode in Rotherham, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 50
- At medium risk at worst: 20
- At low risk at worst: 40
- At very low risk only: 11
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,707
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 1,828 postcodes in Rotherham that ONS places, 50 have a home or business at high risk, 20 are at medium risk at worst, 40 are at low risk at worst, 11 are at very low risk only and 1,707 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 53.4318, longitude -1.3597. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
50 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 12 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. S60 1ER, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. S60 1FS, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. S60 1RR, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. S60 1RY, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Rotherham?
Homes sold for a typical £170,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,635 of the 1,733 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 606 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 121 of its 1,828 postcodes. It has 23 primary schools and 5 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Rotherham Central, 50 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Rotherham?
Homes in Rotherham sold for a typical £170,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 532 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £170,000 from 689 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £310,000 73 sales
- Semi-detached £190,000 295 sales
- Terraced £115,000 125 sales
- Flat or maisonette £90,000 39 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole S61 district, Rotherham's main postcode district: a typical £165,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Rotherham: 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 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Rotherham?
44 of the 1,828 postcodes now in use in Rotherham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 37 of the 689 homes sold in Rotherham were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S61 district, 9%.
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 Rotherham | Across the S61 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 13 of 532 (2%) | 1 of 305 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 37 of 689 (5%) | 39 of 431 (9%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Rotherham?
Ofcom reports on 1,733 of the 1,828 postcodes in Rotherham. At 1,635 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Rotherham at risk of flooding?
121 of the 1,828 postcodes in Rotherham 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 606 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Rotherham?
The open schools at the postcodes in Rotherham (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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- St Ann's Primary School950 m 374 pupils, 420 places
- Ferham Primary School1.1 km 228 pupils, 210 places
- Thornhill Primary School1.3 km 316 pupils, 360 places
- Eastwood Village Primary School1.4 km 195 pupils, 315 places
- Broom Valley Community School1.6 km 401 pupils, 482 places
- Coleridge Primary1.6 km 253 pupils, 210 places
- East Dene Primary1.8 km 326 pupils, 350 places
- Canklow Woods Primary School1.9 km 245 pupils, 210 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Rotherham?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Rotherham is Rotherham Central Rail Station, 50 m away in a straight line.
- Rotherham Central Rail Station Railway station 50 mWalk
- Meadowhall Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
- Darnall Rail Station Railway station 6.3 kmDrive
- Rotherham Station Underground, metro or tram 100 mWalk
- Parkgate Underground, metro or tram 1.6 kmCycle
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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Rotherham?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Rotherham, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Clifton Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01709 363950 500 mWalk
- Gateway Primary Care Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report June 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01709 373371 500 mWalk
- St Ann's Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01709 375500 500 mWalk
- York Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01709 836290 800 mWalk
- Woodstock Bower Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2026 · Phone 01709 560005 1.2 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Rotherham safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 6,106 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Rotherham 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
- 443 September 2025
- 537 October 2025
- 505 November 2025
- 527 December 2025
- 470 January 2026
- 357 February 2026
- 458 March 2026
- 512 April 2026
- 567 May 2026
- 589 June 2026
- 584 July 2026
- 557 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 172, robbery 169, drugs 144, possession of weapons 73, theft from the person 45, bicycle theft 30.
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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Rotherham?
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Rotherham (1,640), Rother Valley (176), Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (5) and 2 others
- Police force area
- South Yorkshire
- Region
- Yorkshire and The Humber
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Rotherham
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Rotherham is in Rotherham; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Rotherham about council tax Council tax, on rotherham.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Rotherham
- 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 Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Rotherham postcodes
1,828 postcodes in use in Rotherham, by district:
Those districts are all in the S postcode area.
Check a Rotherham postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Rotherham
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Rotherham's £170,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Rotherham
- What is the postcode for Rotherham?
- Postcode districts S9, S60, S61, S65, S66 and S95, with 1,828 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Rotherham?
- A typical £170,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 532 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Rotherham?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St Ann's Primary School, Ferham Primary School and Thornhill Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Clifton Community School, Oakwood High School and Wingfield Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Rotherham have a railway station?
- Yes: Rotherham Central station, 50 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Rotherham?
- Ofcom reports on 1,733 of the 1,828 postcodes in Rotherham. At 1,635 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Rotherham at risk of flooding?
- 121 of the 1,828 postcodes in Rotherham 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 606 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Rotherham?
- 44 of the 1,828 postcodes now in use in Rotherham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 37 of the 689 homes sold in Rotherham were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S61 district, 9%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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