Property market
The five-year median is £130,000 from 7 recorded sales in S72 7DR. 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 7DR
North East · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barnsley
- 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 7DR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S72
- Postcode sector
- S72 7
- Latitude
- 53.579720
- Longitude
- -1.381521
- British National Grid easting
- 441,047
- British National Grid northing
- 409,412
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
- E00037145
- 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
Property
44 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Michaels Estate, Grimethorpe, Barnsley, S72 7DR | 10 May 2024 | £140,000 |
| 25, Michaels Estate, Grimethorpe, Barnsley, S72 7DR | 28 February 2024 | £125,000 |
| 12, Michaels Estate, Grimethorpe, Barnsley, S72 7DR | 13 June 2023 | £89,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 3
- 509 m
Milefield Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Ladywood Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Outwood Academy Shafton
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 737
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 272
- Anti social behaviour 96
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Burglary 59
- Vehicle crime 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 55
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- S72 7 residents
- 5,261
27 female, 28 male
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
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S72 7 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
- 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
10
within 5 km
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
698 m
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
698 m
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
698 m
THE ROSE TREE PMS PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
2.3 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
4.0 km
BHF LUNDWOOD SURGERY
LUNDWOOD PRIORY CAMPUS, PONTEFRACT ROAD, LUNDWOOD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code Y05364
4.5 km
LUNDWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
PONTEFRACT ROAD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code C85028
4.5 km
LANGTHWAITE SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, LANGTHWAITE RD, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87036
4.9 km
PARK GREEN SURGERY
LANGTHWAITE ROAD, LANGTHWAITE GRANGE IND ESTATE, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87006
4.9 km
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, BARNSLEY, S71 2EQ
ODS code C85622
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
Meadow Crescent/Michaels Estate
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.1 miles
Michaels Estate/Brierley Road
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.1 miles
Michaels Estate/Brierley Road
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.1 miles
Brierley Road/Dell Avenue
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.1 miles
Stacey Crescent/Michaels Crescent
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.
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
- 4
- 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
26 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 3 secondary schools. Milefield Primary School is the nearest published school at 509 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
737 published events cover 12 months, averaging 61.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 272 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.