Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Millhouse Primary School is the nearest published school at 96 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S36 9LL
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S36 9LL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S36
- Postcode sector
- S36 9
- Latitude
- 53.524693
- Longitude
- -1.672913
- British National Grid easting
- 421,782
- British National Grid northing
- 403,162
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
- E00037654
- 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
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 96 m
Millhouse Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Thurlstone Primary School
Community school
- 2.6 km
Penistone Grammar School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 95
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 56
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Burglary 8
- Public order 4
- Criminal damage and arson 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S36 9 residents
- 3,748
Age bands in S36 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
529 residents
240 residents
653 residents
967 residents
583 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
PENISTONE GROUP PMS PRACTICE
19 HIGH STREET, PENISTONE, SHEFFIELD, S36 6BR
ODS code C85004
2.8 km
KINGSWELL SURGERY PMS PRACTICE
40 SHREWSBURY ROAD, PENISTONE, SHEFFIELD, S36 6DY
ODS code C85623
3.0 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
- 0.0 miles
Lee Lane/Manchester Road
BCT · Millhouse Green
- 0.1 miles
Manchester Road/West End Avenue
BCT · Millhouse Green
- 0.1 miles
West End Avenue/Manchester Road
BCT · Millhouse Green
- 0.1 miles
Manchester Road/West End Avenue
BCT · Millhouse Green
- 0.2 miles
Birks Lane/Manchester Road
BCT · Millhouse Green
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
95 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 56 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.