Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 5 secondary schools. Lacewood Primary School is the nearest published school at 976 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S63 8WY
Dearne South · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 8WY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2002
- Terminated
- 1 October 2003
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S63
- Postcode sector
- S63 8
- Latitude
- 53.514274
- Longitude
- -1.311820
- British National Grid easting
- 445,732
- British National Grid northing
- 402,173
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
- E00037355
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 5
- 976 m
Lacewood Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Carrfield Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Heather Garth Primary School Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 749
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 293
- Anti social behaviour 114
- Burglary 64
- Criminal damage and arson 60
- Public order 55
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S63 8 residents
- 7,569
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
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
10
within 5 km straight-line
GOLDTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE
GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code C85001
1.5 km
HOLLYGREEN PRACTICE
GOLDTHOPE CENTRE, GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code C85023
1.5 km
LAKESIDE SURGERY
GOLDTHOPE CENTRE, GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code Y04809
1.5 km
MARKET SURGERY
WAREHOUSE LANE, WATH-UPON-DEARNE, ROTHERHAM, S63 7RA
ODS code C87029
2.6 km
CROWN STREET SURGERY
17 CROWN STREET, SWINTON, MEXBOROUGH, S64 8NB
ODS code C87030
3.0 km
THE NEW SURGERY
ADWICK ROAD, MEXBOROUGH, S64 0DB
ODS code C86034
3.0 km
MEXBOROUGH HEALTH CENTRE
HEALTH CENTRE, ADWICK ROAD, MEXBOROUGH, S64 0BY
ODS code C86005
3.1 km
DEARNE VALLEY GROUP PRACTICE
THE THURNSCOE LIFT BUILDING, HOLLY BUSH DRIVE, THURNSCOE, ROTHERHAM, S63 0LU
ODS code Y00411
3.7 km
THE MAGNA GROUP PRACTICE
HIGHTHORN ROAD, KILNHURST, MEXBOROUGH, S64 5UP
ODS code C87006
4.2 km
GARLAND HOUSE SURGERY
GARLAND HOUSE, 1 CHURCH STREET, DARFIELD, BARNSLEY, S73 9JX
ODS code C85016
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mexborough Road/Garbutt Street
BCT · Bolton-upon-Dearne
- 0.1 miles
Mexborough Road/Willow Lane
BCT · Bolton-upon-Dearne
- 0.2 miles
High Street/Angel Street
BCT · Bolton-upon-Dearne
- 0.3 miles
High Street/Angel Street
BCT · Bolton-upon-Dearne
- 0.3 miles
Angel Street/High 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
749 published events cover 12 months, averaging 62.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 293 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.