# Sprotbrough

Town in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber.

Sprotbrough is a town in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber. Median sale price £268,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 77.7 per 1,000 people. About 7,476 people.

Town. Code E63001228. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Doncaster](https://openindex.co.uk/doncaster)

Sprotbrough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sprotbrough 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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £268,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Sprotbrough was £268,000 in 2025. Joint 525th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/sprotbrough#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 7,546** (2021). Sprotbrough had 7,546 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). Joint 8th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/sprotbrough#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 86%** (2022). About 86% of people in Sprotbrough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/sprotbrough#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 99.0%** (January 2026). In Sprotbrough, 99.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/sprotbrough#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001228) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 86% of people in Sprotbrough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63001228) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 139 homes were sold in Sprotbrough in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63001228) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Sprotbrough.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001228) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Sprotbrough had 7,546 usual residents at the census.

## How Sprotbrough compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Sprotbrough | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £268,000 | 17th most expensive | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2025 |
| Population | 7,546 | 2nd least populated | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 86% | 42nd fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 99.0% | joint 19th highest | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · Jan 2026 |

## Is Sprotbrough safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sprotbrough at a rate of 77.7 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, 39 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sprotbrough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (138), violence and sexual offences (129) and shoplifting (112).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sprotbrough was 70.8 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 Sprotbrough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sprotbrough has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Sprotbrough

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Doncaster 021A](https://openindex.co.uk/doncaster/neighbourhood/e01007584) | 1,532 | 151.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| [Doncaster 021B](https://openindex.co.uk/doncaster/neighbourhood/e01007585) | 1,533 | 94.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Doncaster 021C](https://openindex.co.uk/doncaster/neighbourhood/e01007617) | 1,457 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.1% |
| [Doncaster 021D](https://openindex.co.uk/doncaster/neighbourhood/e01007618) | 1,189 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Doncaster 021E](https://openindex.co.uk/doncaster/neighbourhood/e01007619) | 1,835 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |

## Your MP

- [Doncaster North](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/doncaster-north): Ed Miliband (Labour), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Doncaster](https://openindex.co.uk/doncaster)

## Postcode districts covering Sprotbrough

[DN5](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/dn5)

## Middle areas in Sprotbrough

[Sprotbrough](https://openindex.co.uk/doncaster/sprotbrough)

## Towns near Sprotbrough

[Bentley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bentley), [Doncaster](https://openindex.co.uk/town/doncaster), [Scawthorpe and Cusworth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/scawthorpe-and-cusworth), [Warmsworth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/warmsworth), [Conisbrough](https://openindex.co.uk/town/conisbrough), [Adwick le Street](https://openindex.co.uk/town/adwick-le-street)

## Sprotbrough in brief

Sprotbrough is a town in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 7,476 people lived in Sprotbrough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £268,000 in 2025 across 139 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 77.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sprotbrough was £268,000 in 2025.
Sprotbrough had 7,546 usual residents at the census.
About 86% of people in Sprotbrough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sprotbrough, 99.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001228
- Constituency: [Doncaster North †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/doncaster-north)
- Council: [Doncaster †](https://openindex.co.uk/doncaster)
- Region: [Yorkshire and The Humber](https://openindex.co.uk/yorkshire-and-the-humber)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 2.10 km²
- People, mid-2024: 7,476*
- Neighbourhoods: 5
- Output areas: 24

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Bentley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bentley), [Doncaster](https://openindex.co.uk/town/doncaster), [Scawthorpe and Cusworth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/scawthorpe-and-cusworth), [Warmsworth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/warmsworth), [Conisbrough](https://openindex.co.uk/town/conisbrough), [Adwick le Street](https://openindex.co.uk/town/adwick-le-street)

## Latest updates for Sprotbrough

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63001228

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/sprotbrough, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/sprotbrough#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/sprotbrough