Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 2 secondary schools. Lift Meadstead is the nearest published school at 132 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S71 4RJ
Royston · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S71 4RJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2015
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S71
- Postcode sector
- S71 4
- Latitude
- 53.598788
- Longitude
- -1.460285
- British National Grid easting
- 435,816
- British National Grid northing
- 411,491
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
- E00037684
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Fire Station, High Street, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4RJ | 1 April 2014 | £145,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 2
- 132 m
Lift Meadstead
Academy sponsor led
- 428 m
Summerfields Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 538 m
Parkside Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,097
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 447
- Anti social behaviour 178
- Criminal damage and arson 112
- Public order 91
- Other theft 55
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S71 4 residents
- 10,765
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
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
HIGH STREET PRACTICE
48 HIGH STREET, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4RF
ODS code C85024
161 m
ROYSTON GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 65D MIDLAND ROAD, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4QW
ODS code C85005
628 m
ST GEORGE'S MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
ROUNDHOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, LANGSETT COURT, NEW LODGE, BARNSLEY, S71 1RY
ODS code C85619
2.7 km
HILL BROW SURGERY PMS PRACTICE
HILL BROW SURGERY, LONGCROFT, MAPPLEWELL, BARNSLEY, S75 6FH
ODS code C85010
3.5 km
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, BARNSLEY, S71 2EQ
ODS code C85622
3.6 km
THE ROSE TREE PMS PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
3.7 km
BHF LUNDWOOD SURGERY
LUNDWOOD PRIORY CAMPUS, PONTEFRACT ROAD, LUNDWOOD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code Y05364
4.8 km
LUNDWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
PONTEFRACT ROAD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code C85028
4.8 km
HUDDERSFIELD ROAD SURGERY
6 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 2LT
ODS code C85020
4.8 km
DARTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, DARTON, BARNSLEY, S75 5HQ
ODS code C85614
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
High Street/Oakwood Road
BCT · Royston
- 0.1 miles
High Street/Hallcroft Rise
BCT · Royston
- 0.1 miles
High Street/Summer Lane
BCT · Royston
- 0.1 miles
Meadstead Drive/Doles Avenue
BCT · Royston
- 0.2 miles
Station Road/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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,097 published events cover 12 months, averaging 91.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 447 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.