Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Penistone Grammar School is the nearest published school at 380 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S36 8AJ
Penistone West · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sheffield
- Ward
- Penistone West
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge
- Postcode district
- S36
- Postcode sector
- S36 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S36 8AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2017
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S36
- Postcode sector
- S36 8
- Latitude
- 53.530492
- Longitude
- -1.632770
- British National Grid easting
- 424,440
- British National Grid northing
- 403,820
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
- E00037656
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 016D · E01007425
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 016 · E02001524
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
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Watermill Gardens, Penistone, Sheffield, S36 8AJ | 25 May 2021 | £530,000 |
| 2, Watermill Gardens, Penistone, Sheffield, S36 8AJ | 8 June 2018 | £490,000 |
| 4, Watermill Gardens, Penistone, Sheffield, S36 8AJ | 15 December 2017 | £454,999 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 380 m
Penistone Grammar School
Community school
- 865 m
Penistone St John's Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Thurlstone Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 523
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 216
- Anti social behaviour 66
- Shoplifting 59
- Public order 46
- Criminal damage and arson 36
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- S36 8 residents
- 1,887
10 female, 6 male
Age bands in S36 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.2%
303 residents
145 residents
343 residents
521 residents
442 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S36 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
KINGSWELL SURGERY PMS PRACTICE
40 SHREWSBURY ROAD, PENISTONE, SHEFFIELD, S36 6DY
ODS code C85623
604 m
PENISTONE GROUP PMS PRACTICE
19 HIGH STREET, PENISTONE, SHEFFIELD, S36 6BR
ODS code C85004
816 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Barnsley Road/Watermill Gardens
BCT · Penistone
- 0.1 miles
Huddersfield Road/Barnsley Road
BCT · Penistone
- 0.1 miles
Bridge Street/Wentworth Road
BCT · Penistone
- 0.2 miles
Thurlstone Road/Talbot Road
BCT · Penistone
- 0.2 miles
Thurlstone Road/Talbot Road
BCT · Penistone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 016D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,348 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
523 published events cover 12 months, averaging 43.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 216 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.