Property market
The five-year median is £157,500 from 6 recorded sales in S72 0AX. 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.
S72 0AX
Darfield & Great Houghton · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barnsley
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley North
- Postcode district
- S72
- Postcode sector
- S72 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S72 0AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S72
- Postcode sector
- S72 0
- Latitude
- 53.557712
- Longitude
- -1.356707
- British National Grid easting
- 442,712
- British National Grid northing
- 406,978
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- Darfield & Great Houghton · E05016570
- Parish or community
- E04000043
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley North · E14001074
- Output area
- E00037265
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 020G · E01007354
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 020 · E02001528
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 S72
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Park Lane, Great Houghton, Barnsley, S72 0AX | 13 February 2026 | £165,000 |
| 28, Park Lane, Great Houghton, Barnsley, S72 0AX | 4 November 2025 | £190,000 |
| 34, Park Lane, Great Houghton, Barnsley, S72 0AX | 28 March 2025 | £170,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 3
- 876 m
Sandhill Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Ladywood Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
The Robert Ogden School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 230
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 91
- Criminal damage and arson 25
- Vehicle crime 22
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Other theft 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- S72 0 residents
- 3,316
19 female, 22 male
Age bands in S72 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
537 residents
344 residents
788 residents
992 residents
711 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S72 0 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
- 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
13
within 5 km
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
2.3 km
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
2.3 km
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
2.3 km
GARLAND HOUSE SURGERY
GARLAND HOUSE, 1 CHURCH STREET, DARFIELD, BARNSLEY, S73 9JX
ODS code C85016
2.8 km
DEARNE VALLEY GROUP PRACTICE
THE THURNSCOE LIFT BUILDING, HOLLY BUSH DRIVE, THURNSCOE, ROTHERHAM, S63 0LU
ODS code Y00411
3.4 km
GOLDTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE
GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code C85001
4.5 km
HOLLYGREEN PRACTICE
GOLDTHOPE CENTRE, GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code C85023
4.5 km
LAKESIDE SURGERY
GOLDTHOPE CENTRE, GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code Y04809
4.5 km
THE ROSE TREE PMS PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
4.6 km
WOMBWELL GMS PRACTICE
MAYFLOWER WAY, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0AJ
ODS code C85013
4.7 km
LANGTHWAITE SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, LANGTHWAITE RD, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87036
4.7 km
PARK GREEN SURGERY
LANGTHWAITE ROAD, LANGTHWAITE GRANGE IND ESTATE, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87006
4.7 km
WOMBWELL MEDICAL CENTRE PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0DD
ODS code C85030
4.9 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
High Street/Crabtree Drive
BCT · Great Houghton
- 0.2 miles
High Street/Pear Tree Close
BCT · Great Houghton
- 0.2 miles
High Street/School Street
BCT · Great Houghton
- 0.4 miles
High Street/Pinefield Close
BCT · Great Houghton
- 0.4 miles
Rotherham Road/Oak Haven Avenue
BCT · Great Houghton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 020G, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,542 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 5
- 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
28 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. Sandhill Primary School is the nearest published school at 876 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
230 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 91 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.