Property market
The five-year median is £140,000 from 2 recorded sales in S70 5UH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Barnsley is £175,733 in June 2026, up 6.0% year on year.
S70 5UH
Rockingham · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barnsley
- Ward
- Rockingham
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley South
- Postcode district
- S70
- Postcode sector
- S70 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S70 5UH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S70
- Postcode sector
- S70 5
- Latitude
- 53.505080
- Longitude
- -1.481585
- British National Grid easting
- 434,482
- British National Grid northing
- 401,055
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- Rockingham · E05016583
- Parish or community
- E43000251
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley South · E14001075
- Output area
- E00037489
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 028D · E01007399
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 028 · E02001536
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 S70
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Farrand Street, Birdwell, Barnsley, S70 5UH | 3 March 2025 | £135,000 |
| 7, Farrand Street, Birdwell, Barnsley, S70 5UH | 9 October 2024 | £145,000 |
| 6, Farrand Street, Birdwell, Barnsley, S70 5UH | 22 May 2020 | £80,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 3
- 398 m
Birdwell Primary School
Academy converter
- 836 m
Tankersley St Peter's CofE (Aided) Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.3 km
Hoyland Common Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 542
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 143
- Anti social behaviour 98
- Other theft 63
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Shoplifting 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- S70 5 residents
- 7,794
6 female, 7 male
Age bands in S70 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.8%
1,155 residents
769 residents
1,688 residents
2,340 residents
2,072 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S70 5 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 57.1%
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
7
within 5 km
HOYLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HOYLAND CENTRE, HIGH CROFT, HOYLAND, BARNSLEY, S74 9AF
ODS code C85022
3.0 km
WALDERSLADE SURGERY
HIGH CROFT, HOYLAND, BARNSLEY, S74 9AF
ODS code C85008
3.0 km
THE DOVE VALLEY PMS PRACTICE
WORSBROUGH HEALTHCARE CENTRE, POWELL STREET, WORSBROUGH, BARNSLEY, S70 5NZ
ODS code C85007
3.0 km
ASHVILLE MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
OAKS PARK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, THORNTON ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 3NE
ODS code C85003
4.5 km
THE KAKOTY PRACTICE
170 SHEFFIELD ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 4NW
ODS code C85009
4.6 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
124-126 PARK GROVE, BARNSLEY, S70 1QE
ODS code C85019
4.7 km
BURLEIGH MEDICAL CENTRE
BURLEIGH STREET, BARNSLEY, S70 1DR
ODS code C85017
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
Sheffield Road/Wentworth Street
BCT · Birdwell
- 0.1 miles
Sheffield Road/Rockingham Street
BCT · Birdwell
- 0.1 miles
Chapel Street/Sheffield Road
BCT · Birdwell
- 0.1 miles
Sheffield Road/Chapel Street
BCT · Birdwell
- 0.2 miles
Sheffield Road/Chapel Street
BCT · Birdwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 028D, 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
17,054 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
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
Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 3 secondary schools. Birdwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 398 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
542 published events cover 12 months, averaging 45.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 143 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.