Property market
The five-year median is £86,250 from 2 recorded sales in S73 8HB. 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.
S73 8HB
Wombwell · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S73 8HB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S73
- Postcode sector
- S73 8
- Latitude
- 53.522491
- Longitude
- -1.398928
- British National Grid easting
- 439,948
- British National Grid northing
- 403,035
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- Wombwell · E05016586
- Parish or community
- E43000251
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley South · E14001075
- Output area
- E00037742
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 023C · E01007449
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 023 · E02001531
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 S73
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 27, High Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 8HB | 10 October 2023 | £72,500 |
| 39, High Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 8HB | 6 December 2021 | £100,000 |
| 41, High Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 8HB | 6 April 2017 | £60,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 4
- 405 m
Kings Oak Primary
Academy converter
- 499 m
Wombwell Park Street Primary School
Academy converter
- 839 m
High View Primary Learning Centre
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,672
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 705
- Anti social behaviour 273
- Criminal damage and arson 163
- Public order 113
- Vehicle crime 85
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S73 8 residents
- 9,701
Age bands in S73 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
1,790 residents
1,082 residents
2,791 residents
2,626 residents
1,765 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+
- 91.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 91.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 91.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 91.7%
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 straight-line
WOMBWELL MEDICAL CENTRE PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0DD
ODS code C85030
64 m
WOMBWELL GMS PRACTICE
MAYFLOWER WAY, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0AJ
ODS code C85013
215 m
GARLAND HOUSE SURGERY
GARLAND HOUSE, 1 CHURCH STREET, DARFIELD, BARNSLEY, S73 9JX
ODS code C85016
2.3 km
HOYLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HOYLAND CENTRE, HIGH CROFT, HOYLAND, BARNSLEY, S74 9AF
ODS code C85022
3.6 km
WALDERSLADE SURGERY
HIGH CROFT, HOYLAND, BARNSLEY, S74 9AF
ODS code C85008
3.6 km
THE DOVE VALLEY PMS PRACTICE
WORSBROUGH HEALTHCARE CENTRE, POWELL STREET, WORSBROUGH, BARNSLEY, S70 5NZ
ODS code C85007
4.1 km
MARKET SURGERY
WAREHOUSE LANE, WATH-UPON-DEARNE, ROTHERHAM, S63 7RA
ODS code C87029
4.1 km
ASHVILLE MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
OAKS PARK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, THORNTON ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 3NE
ODS code C85003
4.5 km
BHF LUNDWOOD SURGERY
LUNDWOOD PRIORY CAMPUS, PONTEFRACT ROAD, LUNDWOOD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code Y05364
4.7 km
LUNDWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
PONTEFRACT ROAD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code C85028
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
High Street/Marsh Street WW3
BCT · Wombwell
- 0.0 miles
High Street/Melville Street WW2
BCT · Wombwell
- 0.1 miles
Station Road/High Street
BCT · Wombwell
- 0.1 miles
Station Road/Smith Street
BCT · Wombwell
- 0.1 miles
Church Street/Kings Road
BCT · Wombwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 023C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,313 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
33 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 4 secondary schools. Kings Oak Primary is the nearest published school at 405 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,672 published events cover 12 months, averaging 139.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 705 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.