Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 2 secondary schools. Upperwood Academy is the nearest published school at 176 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S73 9DH
Darfield & Great Houghton · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley South
- Postcode district
- S73
- Postcode sector
- S73 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S73 9DH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S73
- Postcode sector
- S73 9
- Latitude
- 53.538402
- Longitude
- -1.390496
- British National Grid easting
- 440,492
- British National Grid northing
- 404,810
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- Darfield & Great Houghton · E05016570
- Parish or community
- E43000251
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley South · E14001075
- Output area
- E00037240
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 020C · E01007350
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 020 · E02001528
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 2
- 176 m
Upperwood Academy
Academy converter
- 809 m
Outwood Primary Academy Darfield
Academy sponsor led
- 972 m
Netherwood Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 840
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 305
- Anti social behaviour 141
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Burglary 64
- Vehicle crime 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- S73 9 residents
- 7,549
4 female, 4 male
Age bands in S73 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.9%
1,301 residents
714 residents
1,760 residents
1,922 residents
1,787 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S73 9 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
12
within 5 km
GARLAND HOUSE SURGERY
GARLAND HOUSE, 1 CHURCH STREET, DARFIELD, BARNSLEY, S73 9JX
ODS code C85016
1.4 km
WOMBWELL GMS PRACTICE
MAYFLOWER WAY, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0AJ
ODS code C85013
1.8 km
WOMBWELL MEDICAL CENTRE PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0DD
ODS code C85030
1.9 km
BHF LUNDWOOD SURGERY
LUNDWOOD PRIORY CAMPUS, PONTEFRACT ROAD, LUNDWOOD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code Y05364
3.8 km
LUNDWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
PONTEFRACT ROAD, BARNSLEY, S71 5PN
ODS code C85028
3.8 km
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
4.0 km
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
4.0 km
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
4.0 km
ASHVILLE MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
OAKS PARK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, THORNTON ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 3NE
ODS code C85003
4.4 km
THE ROSE TREE PMS PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
4.7 km
THE DOVE VALLEY PMS PRACTICE
WORSBROUGH HEALTHCARE CENTRE, POWELL STREET, WORSBROUGH, BARNSLEY, S70 5NZ
ODS code C85007
4.7 km
MARKET SURGERY
WAREHOUSE LANE, WATH-UPON-DEARNE, ROTHERHAM, S63 7RA
ODS code C87029
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
Upperwood Road/Modena Court
BCT · Darfield
- 0.1 miles
Upperwood Road/Sorrento Way
BCT · Darfield
- 0.1 miles
Upperwood Road/Ferrara Close
BCT · Darfield
- 0.1 miles
Upperwood Road/Palermo Fold
BCT · Darfield
- 0.2 miles
Barnsley Road/Upperwood Hall
BCT · Darfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 020C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,243 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
840 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 305 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.