Property market
The five-year median is £215,000 from 4 recorded sales in S71 4EE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wakefield is £198,519 in June 2026, up 4.8% year on year.
S71 4EE
Crofton, Ryhill & Walton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barnsley
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- S71
- Postcode sector
- S71 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S71 4EE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S71
- Postcode sector
- S71 4
- Latitude
- 53.614586
- Longitude
- -1.447764
- British National Grid easting
- 436,631
- British National Grid northing
- 413,255
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Crofton, Ryhill & Walton · E05016528
- Parish or community
- E04000238
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00060241
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 038C · E01011942
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 038 · E02002475
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
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Midland Cottages, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4EE | 6 September 2024 | £240,000 |
| 2, Midland Cottages, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4EE | 18 December 2023 | £200,000 |
| 9, Midland Cottages, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4EE | 24 April 2023 | £140,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.8 km
Parkside Primary Academy
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- 1.9 km
Summerfields Primary Academy
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- 1.9 km
Royston St John Baptist CE Primary
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 314
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 115
- Anti social behaviour 41
- Criminal damage and arson 37
- Public order 31
- Vehicle crime 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- S71 4 residents
- 10,765
6 female, 6 male
Age bands in S71 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.1%
1,939 residents
1,149 residents
2,686 residents
2,930 residents
2,052 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S71 4 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
- 100%
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
ROYSTON GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 65D MIDLAND ROAD, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4QW
ODS code C85005
1.6 km
HIGH STREET PRACTICE
48 HIGH STREET, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4RF
ODS code C85024
2.0 km
THE ROSE TREE PMS PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
4.6 km
ST GEORGE'S MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
ROUNDHOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, LANGSETT COURT, NEW LODGE, BARNSLEY, S71 1RY
ODS code C85619
4.6 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Hudson Avenue
BCT · Notton
- 0.5 miles
Hudson Avenue
BCT · Notton
- 0.5 miles
Bleakley Terrace
BCT · Notton
- 0.5 miles
Bleakley Terrace
BCT · Notton
- 0.8 miles
Station Road/Summer Lane
BCT · Royston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 038C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,239 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
29 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Parkside Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
314 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 115 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.