Property market
The five-year median is £145,000 from 2 recorded sales in S71 4LQ. 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 4LQ
Royston · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S71 4LQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S71
- Postcode sector
- S71 4
- Latitude
- 53.595925
- Longitude
- -1.465322
- British National Grid easting
- 435,485
- British National Grid northing
- 411,170
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- Royston · E05016584
- Parish or community
- E43000251
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley North · E14001074
- Output area
- E00037690
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 001B · E01007435
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 001 · E02001509
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
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 45, West End Avenue, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4LQ | 26 May 2023 | £137,500 |
| 47, West End Avenue, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4LQ | 13 October 2022 | £152,500 |
| 28, West End Avenue, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4LQ | 16 April 2021 | £130,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 2
- 385 m
Lift Meadstead
Academy sponsor led
- 612 m
Summerfields Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 914 m
Parkside Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,265
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 528
- Anti social behaviour 191
- Criminal damage and arson 148
- Public order 95
- Other crime 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 58
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- S71 4 residents
- 10,765
32 female, 26 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 0.5% 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
11
within 5 km
HIGH STREET PRACTICE
48 HIGH STREET, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4RF
ODS code C85024
515 m
ROYSTON GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 65D MIDLAND ROAD, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4QW
ODS code C85005
1.1 km
ST GEORGE'S MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
ROUNDHOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, LANGSETT COURT, NEW LODGE, BARNSLEY, S71 1RY
ODS code C85619
2.2 km
HILL BROW SURGERY PMS PRACTICE
HILL BROW SURGERY, LONGCROFT, MAPPLEWELL, BARNSLEY, S75 6FH
ODS code C85010
3.1 km
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, BARNSLEY, S71 2EQ
ODS code C85622
3.4 km
THE ROSE TREE PMS PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
3.8 km
HUDDERSFIELD ROAD SURGERY
6 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 2LT
ODS code C85020
4.4 km
DARTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, DARTON, BARNSLEY, S75 5HQ
ODS code C85614
4.4 km
BHF LUNDWOOD SURGERY
LUNDWOOD PRIORY CAMPUS, PONTEFRACT ROAD, LUNDWOOD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code Y05364
4.6 km
LUNDWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
PONTEFRACT ROAD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code C85028
4.6 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
7 VICTORIA CRESCENT WEST, BARNSLEY, S75 2AE
ODS code C85033
4.7 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
Meadstead Drive/Manor Grove
BCT · Royston
- 0.2 miles
Meadstead Drive/Doles Avenue
BCT · Royston
- 0.2 miles
High Street/West End Avenue
BCT · Royston
- 0.2 miles
High Street/Summer Lane
BCT · Royston
- 0.3 miles
High Street/Oakwood Road
BCT · Royston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 001B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,913 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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
- 8
- 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
31 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 2 secondary schools. Lift Meadstead is the nearest published school at 385 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,265 published events cover 12 months, averaging 105.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 528 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.