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On Oswin Avenue, in Hexthorpe & Balby North
What it's like at DN4 0PA: every home that has sold on Oswin Avenue since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Oswin Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 32 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 12, Oswin AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2003 | £69,950 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12a, Oswin AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2002 | £39,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 16, Oswin AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Feb 2024 | £165,000 | 89 m² | £1,854/m² | 2 |
| 18, Oswin AvenueTerraced | Feb 2020 | £100,000 | 93 m² | £1,075/m² | 4 |
| 20, Oswin AvenueTerraced | Apr 2012 | £72,000 | 116 m² | £621/m² | 1 |
| 24, Oswin AvenueTerraced | Mar 2019 | £81,000 | 91 m² | £890/m² | 2 |
| 26, Oswin AvenueTerraced | Oct 2000 | £17,000 | 51 m² | £333/m² | 2 |
| 30, Oswin AvenueTerraced | Mar 2007 | £82,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 32, Oswin AvenueTerraced | Sept 2025 | £111,000 | 86 m² | £1,291/m² | 3 |
| 34, Oswin AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2007 | £76,000 | 103 m² | £738/m² | 1 |
| 40, Oswin AvenueTerraced | Dec 2000 | £24,500 | 89 m² | £275/m² | 2 |
| 42, Oswin AvenueDetached | May 2011 | £155,750 | 95 m² | £1,639/m² | 4 |
| 44, Oswin AvenueDetached | Feb 2002 | £86,000 | 104 m² | £827/m² | 3 |
| 46, Oswin AvenueDetached | Jul 2026 | £277,901 | 116 m² | £2,396/m² | 5 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Doncaster, a short drive or bike ride (2.0 km), with 4.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Kings Cross.
The nearest bus stop is Thomson Avenue/Oswin Avenue, 150 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 314); 70 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 11 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
44% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Hexthorpe Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (800 m); 21% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Astrea Academy Woodfields, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 36.8 · 3.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 550 m away, with Top Shop Convenience Store closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is St. Johns Group Practice (300 m), with Balby Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Looks Barber is 1.5 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Doncaster Royal Infirmary, 3.2 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 66% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
McDonalds Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Plough Inn the nearest pub (300 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 189 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 32% flats and 8% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Hexthorpe Park, 400 m away; for exercise, Choose Fitness (600 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 52 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 77 km.
Most households own their home, 29% rent privately.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
31 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Doncaster Central constituency: Sally Jameson MP (Labour (Co-op)), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,551 (25.2%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 46%, Conservative 21%, Reform UK 21%, Green Party 5%.
24 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near DN4 0PA →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Doncaster since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 32 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 1 of 26 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 2.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.9% | 95.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 1.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.3% | 2.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.6% | 0.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Cleethorpes · about 58 min
Nearest: Albert Avenue Pools · about 50 min
Nearest: Elsecar Heritage Railway · about 33 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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