Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 2 secondary schools. Sandhill Primary School is the nearest published school at 194 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S72 0YX
Darfield & Great Houghton · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley North
- Postcode district
- S72
- Postcode sector
- S72 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S72 0YX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S72
- Postcode sector
- S72 0
- Latitude
- 53.549917
- Longitude
- -1.348010
- British National Grid easting
- 443,296
- British National Grid northing
- 406,116
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
- E00037270
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 020B · E01007349
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 2
- 194 m
Sandhill Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
The Robert Ogden School
Other independent special school
- 1.9 km
Gooseacre Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 317
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 127
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Anti social behaviour 32
- Vehicle crime 27
- Burglary 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S72 0 residents
- 3,316
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
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
GARLAND HOUSE SURGERY
GARLAND HOUSE, 1 CHURCH STREET, DARFIELD, BARNSLEY, S73 9JX
ODS code C85016
2.3 km
DEARNE VALLEY GROUP PRACTICE
THE THURNSCOE LIFT BUILDING, HOLLY BUSH DRIVE, THURNSCOE, ROTHERHAM, S63 0LU
ODS code Y00411
2.6 km
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
3.3 km
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
3.3 km
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
3.3 km
GOLDTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE
GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code C85001
3.5 km
HOLLYGREEN PRACTICE
GOLDTHOPE CENTRE, GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code C85023
3.5 km
LAKESIDE SURGERY
GOLDTHOPE CENTRE, GOLDTHORPE GREEN, GOLDTHORPE, ROTHERHAM, S63 9EH
ODS code Y04809
3.5 km
WOMBWELL GMS PRACTICE
MAYFLOWER WAY, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0AJ
ODS code C85013
4.4 km
WOMBWELL MEDICAL CENTRE PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0DD
ODS code C85030
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Rotherham Road/Turner Street
BCT · Great Houghton
- 0.1 miles
Rotherham Road/Edward Street
BCT · Great Houghton
- 0.1 miles
Rotherham Road/Thurnscoe Lane
BCT · Great Houghton
- 0.2 miles
Thurnscoe Lane/Byron Street
BCT · Great Houghton
- 0.2 miles
Thurnscoe Lane/Stonebridge Lane
BCT · Great Houghton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 020B, 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
3,664 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
317 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 127 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.