Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 2 secondary schools. Upperwood Academy is the nearest published school at 251 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S73 9WW
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 9WW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 2004
- Terminated
- 1 March 2004
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S73
- Postcode sector
- S73 9
- Latitude
- 53.535881
- Longitude
- -1.387756
- British National Grid easting
- 440,676
- British National Grid northing
- 404,531
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
- E00037246
- 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
- 36
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 2
- 251 m
Upperwood Academy
Academy converter
- 477 m
Outwood Primary Academy Darfield
Academy sponsor led
- 867 m
St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 965
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 355
- Anti social behaviour 158
- Criminal damage and arson 108
- Burglary 71
- Public order 61
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S73 9 residents
- 7,549
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
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
11
within 5 km straight-line
GARLAND HOUSE SURGERY
GARLAND HOUSE, 1 CHURCH STREET, DARFIELD, BARNSLEY, S73 9JX
ODS code C85016
1.2 km
WOMBWELL GMS PRACTICE
MAYFLOWER WAY, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0AJ
ODS code C85013
1.6 km
WOMBWELL MEDICAL CENTRE PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0DD
ODS code C85030
1.7 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
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
4.2 km
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
4.2 km
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
4.2 km
MARKET SURGERY
WAREHOUSE LANE, WATH-UPON-DEARNE, ROTHERHAM, S63 7RA
ODS code C87029
4.6 km
ASHVILLE MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
OAKS PARK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, THORNTON ROAD, BARNSLEY, S70 3NE
ODS code C85003
4.7 km
THE DOVE VALLEY PMS PRACTICE
WORSBROUGH HEALTHCARE CENTRE, POWELL STREET, WORSBROUGH, BARNSLEY, S70 5NZ
ODS code C85007
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Roundwood Way/Oberon Crescent
BCT · Darfield
- 0.1 miles
Upperwood Road/Roundwood Way
BCT · Darfield
- 0.1 miles
Upperwood Road/Siena Close
BCT · Darfield
- 0.1 miles
Roundwood Way/Dartree Walk
BCT · Darfield
- 0.1 miles
Upperwood Road/Burnham Way
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
965 published events cover 12 months, averaging 80.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 355 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.