Doncaster
TownTown in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Doncaster is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Doncaster add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 28% of people in Doncaster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Doncaster compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Doncaster safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Doncaster at a rate of 189.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 1,565 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Doncaster.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (5,700), other crime (3,067) and shoplifting (2,544).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Doncaster was 190.7 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Doncaster, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Doncaster has no single figure. Of its 55 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 17 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Doncaster
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doncaster 015A | 1,435 | 52.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Doncaster 015B | 1,655 | 115.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Doncaster 015C | 1,837 | 117.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 015D | 2,074 | 192.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Doncaster 015E | 1,574 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Doncaster 015F | 1,636 | 230.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Doncaster 018A | 1,548 | 67.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 018B | 1,508 | 148.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 018C | 1,626 | 152.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Doncaster 018D | 1,316 | 577.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| Doncaster 018E | 1,541 | 133.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 018F | 1,608 | 81.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 019A | 1,767 | 151.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.4% |
| Doncaster 019B | 1,590 | 125.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 019C | 1,534 | 104.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 019E | 1,472 | 93.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Doncaster 019F | 1,527 | 291.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Doncaster 019G | 1,097 | 127.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 019H | 1,050 | 216.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.5% |
| Doncaster 022A | 2,309 | 420.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.5% |
| Doncaster 022B | 1,546 | 276.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Doncaster 022C | 1,603 | 158.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Doncaster 022D | 1,631 | 111.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Doncaster 022F | 2,027 | 581.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.6% |
| Doncaster 022G | 1,189 | 1,866.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 78.5% |
| Doncaster 022H | 1,484 | 176.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 023A | 1,506 | 180.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Doncaster 023B | 1,804 | 241.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Doncaster 023C | 1,519 | 150.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Doncaster 023D | 1,467 | 106.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 024A | 1,523 | 167.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 024B | 1,529 | 82.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 024C | 1,440 | 79.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| Doncaster 024D | 1,329 | 37.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 025A | 1,458 | 28.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Doncaster 025B | 1,480 | 83.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Doncaster 025C | 1,597 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Doncaster 025D | 2,027 | 135.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Doncaster 025E | 1,529 | 66.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Doncaster 027A | 1,305 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 027C | 1,475 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Doncaster 027D | 2,209 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Doncaster 027E | 1,461 | 275.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Doncaster 027F | 1,372 | 36.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 028A | 1,733 | 153.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.6% |
| Doncaster 028B | 1,260 | 181.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 028D | 1,965 | 335.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.6% |
| Doncaster 028E | 1,746 | 118.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Doncaster 028F | 1,913 | 160.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.7% |
| Doncaster 029A | 1,607 | 247.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 029B | 1,327 | 104.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 029C | 1,539 | 164.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Doncaster 029D | 1,401 | 121.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 029E | 1,294 | 136.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Doncaster 029F | 1,525 | 48.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Sally JamesonLabour (Co-op)MP for Doncaster Central
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Doncaster3
Middle areas in Doncaster10
Towns near Doncaster6
Doncaster in brief
Doncaster is a town in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 93,545 people lived in Doncaster in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £175,000 in 2025 across 1,090 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 189.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Doncaster was £175,000 in 2025.
Doncaster had 87,440 usual residents at the census.
About 28% of people in Doncaster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Doncaster, 98.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.