Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 5 secondary schools. Lacewood Primary School is the nearest published school at 331 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S63 8AF
Dearne South · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rotherham
- Ward
- Dearne South
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley South
- Postcode district
- S63
- Postcode sector
- S63 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S63 8AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S63
- Postcode sector
- S63 8
- Latitude
- 53.519649
- Longitude
- -1.318098
- British National Grid easting
- 445,310
- British National Grid northing
- 402,767
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- Dearne South · E05016574
- Parish or community
- E43000251
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley South · E14001075
- Output area
- E00037346
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 025C · E01007366
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 025 · E02001533
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 S63
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Manressa, Thurnscoe Road, Bolton Upon Dearne, Rotherham, S63 8AF | 7 May 2019 | £275,000 |
| Trouville, Thurnscoe Road, Bolton Upon Dearne, Rotherham, S63 8AF | 5 September 2018 | £270,000 |
| Trouville, Thurnscoe Road, Bolton Upon Dearne, Rotherham, S63 8AF | 14 June 2000 | £90,050 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 5
- 331 m
Lacewood Primary School
Community school
- 611 m
Carrfield Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 691 m
Heather Garth Primary School Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,013
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 391
- Anti social behaviour 137
- Criminal damage and arson 96
- Burglary 80
- Vehicle crime 74
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- S63 8 residents
- 7,569
4 female, 2 male
Age bands in S63 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17%
1,426 residents
758 residents
2,000 residents
1,996 residents
1,263 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S63 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
10
within 5 km
GOLDTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE
GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code C85001
1.1 km
HOLLYGREEN PRACTICE
GOLDTHOPE CENTRE, GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code C85023
1.1 km
LAKESIDE SURGERY
GOLDTHOPE CENTRE, GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code Y04809
1.1 km
MARKET SURGERY
WAREHOUSE LANE, WATH-UPON-DEARNE, ROTHERHAM, S63 7RA
ODS code C87029
2.6 km
DEARNE VALLEY GROUP PRACTICE
THE THURNSCOE LIFT BUILDING, HOLLY BUSH DRIVE, THURNSCOE, ROTHERHAM, S63 0LU
ODS code Y00411
3.2 km
CROWN STREET SURGERY
17 CROWN STREET, SWINTON, MEXBOROUGH, S64 8NB
ODS code C87030
3.6 km
THE NEW SURGERY
ADWICK ROAD, MEXBOROUGH, S64 0DB
ODS code C86034
3.7 km
MEXBOROUGH HEALTH CENTRE
HEALTH CENTRE, ADWICK ROAD, MEXBOROUGH, S64 0BY
ODS code C86005
3.8 km
GARLAND HOUSE SURGERY
GARLAND HOUSE, 1 CHURCH STREET, DARFIELD, BARNSLEY, S73 9JX
ODS code C85016
3.8 km
THE MAGNA GROUP PRACTICE
HIGHTHORN ROAD, KILNHURST, MEXBOROUGH, S64 5UP
ODS code C87006
4.8 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Carr Head Lane/Thurnscoe Road
BCT · Bolton-upon-Dearne
- 0.1 miles
Carr Head Lane/Thurnscoe Road
BCT · Bolton-upon-Dearne
- 0.1 miles
Furlong Road/Station Road
BCT · Bolton-upon-Dearne
- 0.1 miles
Furlong Road/Station Road
BCT · Bolton-upon-Dearne
- 0.1 miles
High Street/Church Street
BCT · Bolton-upon-Dearne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 025C, 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
18,335 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
- 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
Recorded crime
1,013 published events cover 12 months, averaging 84.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 391 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.