Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Millhouse Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.2 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S36 4YA
Penistone West · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Penistone West
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge
- Postcode district
- S36
- Postcode sector
- S36 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S36 4YA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 2001
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S36
- Postcode sector
- S36 4
- Latitude
- 53.509953
- Longitude
- -1.693759
- British National Grid easting
- 420,407
- British National Grid northing
- 401,516
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
- E04000047
- Westminster constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge · E14001423
- Output area
- E00037631
- 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 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.2 km
Millhouse Primary School
Community school
- 3.6 km
Thurlstone Primary School
Community school
- 4.3 km
Penistone St John's Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 30
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Vehicle crime 7
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Burglary 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%
- 159 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- 95 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.7%
- 205 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 34.9%
- 363 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 20.9%
- 217 residents
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
PENISTONE GROUP PMS PRACTICE
19 HIGH STREET, PENISTONE, SHEFFIELD, S36 6BR
ODS code C85004
4.4 km
KINGSWELL SURGERY PMS PRACTICE
40 SHREWSBURY ROAD, PENISTONE, SHEFFIELD, S36 6DY
ODS code C85623
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 87 m
Manchester Road/Whams Road
BCT · Fullshaw
- 97 m
Manchester Road/Fulshaw Lane
BCT · Fullshaw
- 480 m
Manchester Road/Whams Lane
BCT · Flouch
- 486 m
Manchester Road/Whams Lane
BCT · Flouch
- 564 m
Manchester Road/Fulshaw Lane
BCT · Fullshaw
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
30 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.