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, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 44
- In use before 2020: 1,784
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 1,828 postcodes in Rotherham that ONS places, 44 are new since 2020 and 1,784 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. 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
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 Rotherham?
Homes sold for a typical £170,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.6% on the 12 months before. 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 at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. 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.
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 Rotherham?
Homes in Rotherham sold for a typical £170,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 525 sales, up 0.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £325,000 71 sales
- Semi-detached £190,000 294 sales
- Terraced £113,000 122 sales
- Flat or maisonette £90,000 38 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 £170,000.
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 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 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 August 2025, 38 of the 686 homes sold in Rotherham were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S61 district, 8%.
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 August 2026 | 12 of 525 (2%) | 3 of 302 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 38 of 686 (6%) | 37 of 436 (8%) |
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 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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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, 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 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.
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
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 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Rotherham?
- Councils
- Rotherham (1,819) and Sheffield (9)
- 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: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
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.
Questions about Rotherham
- What is it like to live in Rotherham?
- Homes sold for a typical £170,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.6% on the 12 months before. 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 at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. 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. 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 Rotherham?
- Rotherham is covered by postcode districts S9, S60, S61, S65, S66 and S95, across 1,828 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Rotherham?
- Homes in Rotherham sold for a typical £170,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 525 sales, up 0.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Rotherham?
- 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 Kelford School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Does Rotherham have a railway station?
- Yes: Rotherham Central is 50 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Rotherham, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 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). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 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. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out 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 August 2025, 38 of the 686 homes sold in Rotherham were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S61 district, 8%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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