Property market
The five-year median is £136,500 from 8 recorded sales in S71 2AB. 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.
S71 2AB
Old Town · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S71 2AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S71
- Postcode sector
- S71 2
- Latitude
- 53.563170
- Longitude
- -1.468693
- British National Grid easting
- 435,289
- British National Grid northing
- 407,524
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- Old Town · E05016580
- Parish or community
- E43000251
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley North · E14001074
- Output area
- E00037509
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 010J · E01034259
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 010 · E02001518
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 S71
Property
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 35, Burton Bank Road, Barnsley, S71 2AB | 11 February 2025 | £89,000 |
| 43, Burton Bank Road, Barnsley, S71 2AB | 15 January 2025 | £99,950 |
| 19, Burton Bank Road, Barnsley, S71 2AB | 20 August 2024 | £162,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 47
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 4
- 216 m
Burton Road Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Queens Road Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Springwell Alternative Academy
Academy alternative provision converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,862
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,330
- Public order 417
- Anti social behaviour 372
- Shoplifting 344
- Criminal damage and arson 331
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 47
- Postcode households
- 23
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- S71 2 residents
- 9,368
21 female, 26 male
Age bands in S71 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
1,345 residents
794 residents
1,953 residents
2,584 residents
2,337 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S71 2 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
17
within 5 km
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, BARNSLEY, S71 2EQ
ODS code C85622
1.2 km
HUDDERSFIELD ROAD SURGERY
6 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 2LT
ODS code C85020
1.3 km
BURLEIGH MEDICAL CENTRE
BURLEIGH STREET, BARNSLEY, S70 1DR
ODS code C85017
1.6 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
7 VICTORIA CRESCENT WEST, BARNSLEY, S75 2AE
ODS code C85033
1.6 km
THE KAKOTY PRACTICE
170 SHEFFIELD ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 4NW
ODS code C85009
1.9 km
ST GEORGE'S MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
ROUNDHOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, LANGSETT COURT, NEW LODGE, BARNSLEY, S71 1RY
ODS code C85619
2.0 km
BHF LUNDWOOD SURGERY
LUNDWOOD PRIORY CAMPUS, PONTEFRACT ROAD, LUNDWOOD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code Y05364
2.1 km
LUNDWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
PONTEFRACT ROAD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code C85028
2.1 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
124-126 PARK GROVE, BARNSLEY, S70 1QE
ODS code C85019
2.1 km
ASHVILLE MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
OAKS PARK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, THORNTON ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 3NE
ODS code C85003
2.4 km
WOODLAND DRIVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOODLAND DRIVE, BARNSLEY, S70 6QW
ODS code C85006
3.0 km
HILL BROW SURGERY PMS PRACTICE
HILL BROW SURGERY, LONGCROFT, MAPPLEWELL, BARNSLEY, S75 6FH
ODS code C85010
3.8 km
THE ROSE TREE PMS PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
3.8 km
THE DOVE VALLEY PMS PRACTICE
WORSBROUGH HEALTHCARE CENTRE, POWELL STREET, WORSBROUGH, BARNSLEY, S70 5NZ
ODS code C85007
3.8 km
HIGH STREET PRACTICE
48 HIGH STREET, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4RF
ODS code C85024
3.9 km
ROYSTON GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 65D MIDLAND ROAD, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4QW
ODS code C85005
4.3 km
DARTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, DARTON, BARNSLEY, S75 5HQ
ODS code C85614
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
Burton Road/Burton Bank Road
BCT · Honeywell
- 0.1 miles
Wakefield Road/Burton Road
BCT · Smithies
- 0.1 miles
Wakefield Road/Burton Road
BCT · Smithies
- 0.2 miles
Burton Road/Old Mill
BCT · Honeywell
- 0.2 miles
Burton Road/Old Mill
BCT · Honeywell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 010J, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,857 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
47 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 4 secondary schools. Burton Road Primary School is the nearest published school at 216 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,862 published events cover 12 months, averaging 321.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,330 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.