S36 4AF

Penistone West · Barnsley · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Penistone West
Local authority: Barnsley
Constituency: Penistone and Stocksbridge
Postcode district: S36
Postcode sector: S36 4

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
S36 4TE	224 m
S36 4TF	280 m
S36 4TG	1.0 km
HD9 2RZ	1.6 km
HD9 2TE	1.9 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: S36 4AF
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 March 2019
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: S
Postcode district: S36
Postcode sector: S36 4
Latitude: 53.517336
Longitude: -1.762763
British National Grid easting: 415,828
British National Grid northing: 402,320

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: E04000042
Westminster constituency: Penistone and Stocksbridge · E14001423
Output area: E00037628
Lower layer super output area: Barnsley 027D · E01007426
Middle layer super output area: Barnsley 027 · E02001535

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 S36

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 2
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

Hade Edge Junior, Infant and Nursery School

Community school
3.5 km
Hepworth Junior and Infant School

Academy converter
4.3 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 9
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Anti social behaviour 4
Violence and sexual offences 3
Other theft 2

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
S36 4 residents: 916

Age bands in S36 4

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 15.3%
Age 15 to 24: 9.1%
Age 25 to 44: 19.7%
Age 45 to 64: 34.9%
Age 65 and over: 20.9%

Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.

Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.

Nearby transport

Dunford Bridge Car Park/Windle Edge

BCT · Dunford Bridge
0.0 miles
Windle Edge/Bridge Hill Road

BCT · Dunford Bridge
0.1 miles
Brook Hill Lane/Townhead

BCT · Townhead
0.5 miles
Brook Hill Lane/Townhead

BCT · Townhead
0.5 miles
Brook Hill Lane/Cliff Lane

BCT · Carlecotes
0.9 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 027D, 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

17,837 of 33,755

Income: 8 of 10
Employment: 7 of 10
Education and skills: 8 of 10
Health and disability: 5 of 10
Crime: 7 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 3 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.

Flood risk

Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.

High risk addresses: 0
Medium risk addresses: 0
Low risk addresses: 0
Groundwater flood alert area: Unlikely

Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Evidence in context

Schools

2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Hade Edge Junior, Infant and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 4 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.