Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ladywood Primary School is the nearest published school at 657 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S72 7AU
North East · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- North East
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley North
- Postcode district
- S72
- Postcode sector
- S72 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S72 7AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 2006
- Terminated
- 1 March 2009
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S72
- Postcode sector
- S72 7
- Latitude
- 53.570542
- Longitude
- -1.381504
- British National Grid easting
- 441,057
- British National Grid northing
- 408,391
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- North East · E05016579
- Parish or community
- E43000251
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley North · E14001074
- Output area
- E00168694
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 006C · E01007332
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 006 · E02001514
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
- 28
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 3
- 657 m
Ladywood Primary School
Academy converter
- 846 m
Milefield Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Birkwood Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 662
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 247
- Anti social behaviour 83
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Vehicle crime 52
- Burglary 50
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S72 7 residents
- 5,261
Age bands in S72 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.3%
1,074 residents
569 residents
1,461 residents
1,240 residents
722 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.
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
- 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
382 m
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
382 m
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
382 m
THE ROSE TREE PMS PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
2.5 km
BHF LUNDWOOD SURGERY
LUNDWOOD PRIORY CAMPUS, PONTEFRACT ROAD, LUNDWOOD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code Y05364
4.0 km
LUNDWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
PONTEFRACT ROAD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code C85028
4.0 km
GARLAND HOUSE SURGERY
GARLAND HOUSE, 1 CHURCH STREET, DARFIELD, BARNSLEY, S73 9JX
ODS code C85016
4.1 km
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, BARNSLEY, S71 2EQ
ODS code C85622
4.7 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Springvale Road/Spring Hill Road
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.2 miles
Park Spring Road/Springvale Road
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.2 miles
Park Spring Road/Spring Vale Road
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.3 miles
Queensway/Carlton Terrace
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.3 miles
Queensway/Carlton Terrace
BCT · Grimethorpe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 006C, 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
2,658 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
662 published events cover 12 months, averaging 55.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 247 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.