S5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,052 of the district's 1,260 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 53.42227, -1.46331, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in S5

Companies House lists 1,400 companies with a registered office in S5; none of them at an address shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for S5

• Sheffield
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Ecclesfield

Roads filed under S5

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Acacia Road
• Addison Road
• Adkins Drive
• Adkins Road
• Adlington Crescent
• Adlington Road
• Adrian Crescent
• Aldfield Way
• Austen Road
• Avisford Drive
• Avisford Road
• Axe Edge Close
• Bardolph Way
• Barnsley Road
• Barnsley Road Drive
• Barrie Crescent
• Barrie Drive
• Barrie Road
• Bartlett Road
• Batworth Drive
• Batworth Road
• Beck Close
• Beckford Lane
• Beck Road
• Bellhouse Mews
• Bellhouse Road
• Bernshall Crescent
• Bevercotes Road
• Binsted Avenue
• Binsted Close
• Binsted Crescent
• Binsted Croft
• Binsted Drive
• Binsted Gardens
• Binsted Glade
• Binsted Grove
• Binsted Road
• Binsted Way
• Bishopsholme Close
• Bishopsholme Road
• Bluebell Close
• Bluebell Road
• Blyde Road
• Bolsover Road
• Bolsover Road East
• Bourne Road
• Bowfield Road
• Boynton Crescent
• Boynton Road
• Bracken Road
• Brailsford Avenue
• Brailsford Road
• Brearley Drive
• Britland Close
• Buchanan Crescent
• Buchanan Drive
• Buchanan Road
• Burrows Drive
• Busk Knoll
• Busk Meadow

Check an address in S5

Check an address in S5

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=S5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about S5

What does an S5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the S5 district of the S (Sheffield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Sheffield. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,052 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest S5

• S42.5 km
• S982.9 km
• S963.4 km
• S64.0 km
• S34.0 km
• S94.0 km
• S954.2 km
• S354.7 km
• S14.7 km
• S615.1 km
• S26.0 km
• S106.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids