Property market
The five-year median is £200,000 from 7 recorded sales in S72 7GE. 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 7GE
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 7GE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S72
- Postcode sector
- S72 7
- Latitude
- 53.573521
- Longitude
- -1.380373
- British National Grid easting
- 441,129
- British National Grid northing
- 408,723
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
- E00168695
- 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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Portland Crescent, Grimethorpe, Barnsley, S72 7GE | 26 February 2026 | £199,500 |
| 9, Portland Crescent, Grimethorpe, Barnsley, S72 7GE | 21 August 2025 | £50,000 |
| 11, Portland Crescent, Grimethorpe, Barnsley, S72 7GE | 21 August 2025 | £50,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 3
- 560 m
Ladywood Primary School
Academy converter
- 639 m
Milefield Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Birkwood Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 661
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 244
- Anti social behaviour 82
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Vehicle crime 52
- Burglary 51
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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 50%
- 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
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
93 m
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
93 m
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
93 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
4.2 km
LUNDWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
PONTEFRACT ROAD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code C85028
4.2 km
GARLAND HOUSE SURGERY
GARLAND HOUSE, 1 CHURCH STREET, DARFIELD, BARNSLEY, S73 9JX
ODS code C85016
4.5 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
4.6 km
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, BARNSLEY, S71 2EQ
ODS code C85622
4.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Queensway/Carlton Terrace
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.1 miles
Queensway/Carlton Terrace
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.1 miles
Queensway/High Street
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.1 miles
Queensway/Highstreet
BCT · Grimethorpe
- 0.1 miles
High Street/Joseph Street
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
Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ladywood Primary School is the nearest published school at 560 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
661 published events cover 12 months, averaging 55.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 244 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.