Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 3 secondary schools. Outwood Academy Shafton is the nearest published school at 455 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S72 8QN
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S72 8QN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S72
- Postcode sector
- S72 8
- Latitude
- 53.585983
- Longitude
- -1.397246
- British National Grid easting
- 440,000
- British National Grid northing
- 410,100
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
- E04000051
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley North · E14001074
- Output area
- E00037164
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 003B · E01007331
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 003 · E02001511
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
- 29
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 3
- 455 m
Outwood Academy Shafton
Academy sponsor led
- 845 m
Lift Shafton
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Cherry Dale Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,039
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 438
- Anti social behaviour 129
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Public order 76
- Vehicle crime 75
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S72 8 residents
- 13,032
Age bands in S72 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
2,356 residents
1,398 residents
3,237 residents
3,594 residents
2,469 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
THE ROSE TREE PMS PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
1.6 km
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
1.8 km
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
1.8 km
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
1.8 km
ROYSTON GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 65D MIDLAND ROAD, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4QW
ODS code C85005
3.9 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
4.2 km
LUNDWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
PONTEFRACT ROAD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code C85028
4.2 km
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, BARNSLEY, S71 2EQ
ODS code C85622
4.2 km
HIGH STREET PRACTICE
48 HIGH STREET, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4RF
ODS code C85024
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Engine Lane/Hodroyd Lane
BCT · Shafton
- 0.2 miles
Engine Lane/Hodroyd Lane
BCT · Shafton
- 0.2 miles
Engine Lane/Collier Road
BCT · Shafton
- 0.4 miles
Brierley Road/Beech Road
BCT · Shafton
- 0.4 miles
Pontefract Road/Tollgate Close
BCT · Shafton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 003B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,591 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,039 published events cover 12 months, averaging 86.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 438 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.