Wath upon Dearne
Wath upon Dearne is covered by postcode districts S63, S64 and S97. It is in the Rotherham council area, England.
Every postcode in Wath upon Dearne, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 2
- At medium risk at worst: 1
- At low risk at worst: 4
- At very low risk only: 16
- Not on the at-risk list: 495
Of the 518 postcodes in Wath upon Dearne that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 4 are at low risk at worst, 16 are at very low risk only and 495 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. 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 53.5017, longitude -1.3469. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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 postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Wath upon Dearne?
Homes sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.8% on the 12 months before. At 390 of the 461 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 6 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 23 of its 518 postcodes. It has 6 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bolton-Upon-Dearne, 3.0 km 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 Wath upon Dearne?
Homes in Wath upon Dearne sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 148 sales, down 2.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £290,000 31 sales
- Semi-detached £188,000 51 sales
- Terraced £132,500 62 sales
- Flat or maisonette 4 sales, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole S63 district, Wath upon Dearne's main postcode district: a typical £165,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Wath upon Dearne: 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 Wath upon Dearne?
19 of the 518 postcodes now in use in Wath upon Dearne came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 15 of the 203 homes sold in Wath upon Dearne were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S63 district, 18%.
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 Wath upon Dearne | Across the S63 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 4 of 148 (3%) | 30 of 466 (6%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 15 of 203 (7%) | 127 of 696 (18%) |
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 Wath upon Dearne?
Ofcom reports on 461 of the 518 postcodes in Wath upon Dearne. At 390 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 5 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 Wath upon Dearne at risk of flooding?
23 of the 518 postcodes in Wath upon Dearne 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 6 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 Wath upon Dearne?
The open schools at the postcodes in Wath upon Dearne. 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
- Our Lady and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School200 m
- Wath Central Primary School200 m 408 pupils, 420 places
- Wath Church of England Primary School500 m 423 pupils, 315 places
- Wath Victoria Primary School850 m 279 pupils, 285 places
- Highfield Farm Primary School1.1 km 76 pupils, 180 places
- Brampton Ellis CofE Primary School1.3 km 441 pupils, 510 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 Wath upon Dearne?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wath upon Dearne is Bolton-Upon-Dearne Rail Station, 3.0 km away in a straight line.
- Bolton-Upon-Dearne Rail Station Railway station 3.0 kmCycle
- Swinton (South Yorks) Rail Station Railway station 3.2 kmCycle
- Mexborough Rail Station Railway station 4.0 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 Wath upon Dearne?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Wath upon Dearne. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Market Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01709 870150 150 mWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Wath upon Dearne safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,837 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Wath upon Dearne 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
- 140 September 2025
- 140 October 2025
- 132 November 2025
- 158 December 2025
- 161 January 2026
- 138 February 2026
- 138 March 2026
- 193 April 2026
- 165 May 2026
- 142 June 2026
- 162 July 2026
- 168 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: shoplifting 50, drugs 26, robbery 13, possession of weapons 12, theft from the person 5, bicycle theft 3.
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 Wath upon Dearne?
- Council
- Rotherham
- Parliamentary constituency
- Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
- Police force area
- South Yorkshire
- Region
- Yorkshire and The Humber
- Country
- England
- MP
- John Healey (Labour)
All 518 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 Wath upon Dearne
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- 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 Wath upon Dearne
- 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
Wath upon Dearne postcodes
518 postcodes in use in Wath upon Dearne, by district:
Those districts are all in the S postcode area.
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Places near Wath upon Dearne
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Wath upon Dearne's £175,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Wath upon Dearne
- What is it like to live in Wath upon Dearne?
- Homes sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.8% on the 12 months before. At 390 of the 461 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 6 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 23 of its 518 postcodes. It has 6 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bolton-Upon-Dearne, 3.0 km 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 Wath upon Dearne?
- Wath upon Dearne is covered by postcode districts S63, S64 and S97, across 518 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Wath upon Dearne in?
- Wath upon Dearne is in the Rotherham council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Wath upon Dearne?
- Wath upon Dearne is in the Rawmarsh and Conisbrough parliamentary constituency. Its MP is John Healey (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Wath upon Dearne?
- Homes in Wath upon Dearne sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 148 sales, down 2.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Wath upon Dearne?
- In Wath upon Dearne, primary schools at its postcodes include Our Lady and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Wath Central Primary School and Wath Church of England Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Wath Academy and Saint Pius X Catholic High School A Specialist School in Humanities. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Wath upon Dearne have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wath upon Dearne is Bolton-Upon-Dearne, 3.0 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Wath upon Dearne?
- Ofcom reports on 461 of the 518 postcodes in Wath upon Dearne. At 390 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 5 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Wath upon Dearne at risk of flooding?
- 23 of the 518 postcodes in Wath upon Dearne 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 6 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 Wath upon Dearne?
- 19 of the 518 postcodes now in use in Wath upon Dearne came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 15 of the 203 homes sold in Wath upon Dearne were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S63 district, 18%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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