Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Penistone Grammar School is the nearest published school at 424 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S36 8AU
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S36 8AU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S36
- Postcode sector
- S36 8
- Latitude
- 53.533079
- Longitude
- -1.629504
- British National Grid easting
- 424,655
- British National Grid northing
- 404,109
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 424 m
Penistone Grammar School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Penistone St John's Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.5 km
Thurlstone Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 498
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 193
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Shoplifting 59
- Public order 46
- Criminal damage and arson 37
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S36 8 residents
- 1,887
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
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
KINGSWELL SURGERY PMS PRACTICE
40 SHREWSBURY ROAD, PENISTONE, SHEFFIELD, S36 6DY
ODS code C85623
815 m
PENISTONE GROUP PMS PRACTICE
19 HIGH STREET, PENISTONE, SHEFFIELD, S36 6BR
ODS code C85004
1.1 km
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
- 0.1 miles
Barnsley Road/Wellhouse Lane
BCT · Penistone
- 0.1 miles
Well House Lane/Well House Way
BCT · Penistone
- 0.1 miles
Wellhouse Lane/Halifax Road
BCT · Penistone
- 0.1 miles
Barnsley Road/Wellhouse Lane
BCT · Penistone
- 0.2 miles
Barnsley Road/Watermill Gardens
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
498 published events cover 12 months, averaging 41.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 193 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.