Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Thurlstone Primary School is the nearest published school at 124 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S30 6QZ
Penistone West · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Penistone West
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge
- Postcode district
- S30
- Postcode sector
- S30 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S30 6QZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S30
- Postcode sector
- S30 6
- Latitude
- 53.528504
- Longitude
- -1.650286
- British National Grid easting
- 423,280
- British National Grid northing
- 403,593
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- Penistone West · E05016582
- Parish or community
- E04000050
- Westminster constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge · E14001423
- Output area
- E00037659
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 024A · E01007427
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 024 · E02001532
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore S30
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 124 m
Thurlstone Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Penistone Grammar School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Penistone St John's Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 423
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 169
- Shoplifting 59
- Anti social behaviour 59
- Burglary 38
- Public order 32
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
PENISTONE GROUP PMS PRACTICE
19 HIGH STREET, PENISTONE, SHEFFIELD, S36 6BR
ODS code C85004
1.4 km
KINGSWELL SURGERY PMS PRACTICE
40 SHREWSBURY ROAD, PENISTONE, SHEFFIELD, S36 6DY
ODS code C85623
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Towngate/New Smithy Avenue
BCT · Thurlstone
- 0.1 miles
Manchester Road/Towngate
BCT · Thurlstone
- 0.1 miles
Manchester Road/High Bank
BCT · Thurlstone
- 0.2 miles
Westfield Avenue/Westfield Lane
BCT · Thurlstone
- 0.2 miles
Manchester Road/Mill Lane
BCT · Thurlstone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 024A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,275 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
423 published events cover 12 months, averaging 35.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 169 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.