Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 4 secondary schools. Birkwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 734 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S72 8SB
Cudworth · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S72 8SB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S72
- Postcode sector
- S72 8
- Latitude
- 53.563068
- Longitude
- -1.403460
- British National Grid easting
- 439,610
- British National Grid northing
- 407,547
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- Cudworth · E05016569
- Parish or community
- E43000251
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley North · E14001074
- Output area
- E00037227
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 008D · E01007347
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 008 · E02001516
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Pye Avenue, Cudworth, Barnsley, S72 8SB | 7 March 1997 | £14,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 4
- 734 m
Birkwood Primary School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Churchfield Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Milefield Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 410
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 163
- Criminal damage and arson 65
- Anti social behaviour 49
- Vehicle crime 42
- Burglary 21
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
12
within 5 km straight-line
THE ROSE TREE PMS PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
1.9 km
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
2.0 km
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
2.0 km
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
2.0 km
BHF LUNDWOOD SURGERY
LUNDWOOD PRIORY CAMPUS, PONTEFRACT ROAD, LUNDWOOD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code Y05364
2.4 km
LUNDWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
PONTEFRACT ROAD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code C85028
2.4 km
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
MONK BRETTON HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, BARNSLEY, S71 2EQ
ODS code C85622
3.2 km
GARLAND HOUSE SURGERY
GARLAND HOUSE, 1 CHURCH STREET, DARFIELD, BARNSLEY, S73 9JX
ODS code C85016
3.9 km
ASHVILLE MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
OAKS PARK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, THORNTON ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 3NE
ODS code C85003
4.2 km
WOMBWELL GMS PRACTICE
MAYFLOWER WAY, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0AJ
ODS code C85013
4.6 km
WOMBWELL MEDICAL CENTRE PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0DD
ODS code C85030
4.6 km
THE KAKOTY PRACTICE
170 SHEFFIELD ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 4NW
ODS code C85009
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Crown Avenue/Storrs Wood View
BCT · Cudworth
- 0.2 miles
Crown Avenue/Southfield Road
BCT · Cudworth
- 0.2 miles
Crown Avenue/Pleasant View
BCT · Cudworth
- 0.3 miles
Darfield Road/Emsley Avenue
BCT · Cudworth
- 0.3 miles
Darfield Road/Birkwood Avenue
BCT · Cudworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 008D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,187 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
410 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 163 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.