Property market
The five-year median is £180,000 from 4 recorded sales in S74 8JS. 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.
S74 8JS
Hoyland Milton · Barnsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barnsley
- Ward
- Hoyland Milton
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley South
- Postcode district
- S74
- Postcode sector
- S74 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S74 8JS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S74
- Postcode sector
- S74 8
- Latitude
- 53.498882
- Longitude
- -1.423518
- British National Grid easting
- 438,339
- British National Grid northing
- 400,395
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Barnsley · E08000038
- Electoral ward
- Hoyland Milton · E05016576
- Parish or community
- E43000251
- Westminster constituency
- Barnsley South · E14001075
- Output area
- E00037458
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnsley 029C · E01007394
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnsley 029 · E02001537
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 S74
Property
51 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 41, Wilkinson Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JS | 28 February 2025 | £225,000 |
| 26, Wilkinson Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JS | 21 August 2024 | £137,500 |
| 39, Wilkinson Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8JS | 24 November 2023 | £180,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 3
- 385 m
Elsecar Holy Trinity CofE Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 684 m
Greenfield Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Jump Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,090
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 388
- Anti social behaviour 157
- Vehicle crime 98
- Criminal damage and arson 97
- Shoplifting 75
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 108
- Postcode households
- 43
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- S74 8 residents
- 3,808
54 female, 54 male
Age bands in S74 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
612 residents
370 residents
953 residents
1,171 residents
666 residents
This postcode contained 2.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S74 8 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+
- 93.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 93.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 93.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
6
within 5 km
HOYLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HOYLAND CENTRE, HIGH CROFT, HOYLAND, BARNSLEY, S74 9AF
ODS code C85022
949 m
WALDERSLADE SURGERY
HIGH CROFT, HOYLAND, BARNSLEY, S74 9AF
ODS code C85008
949 m
WOMBWELL MEDICAL CENTRE PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0DD
ODS code C85030
3.0 km
WOMBWELL GMS PRACTICE
MAYFLOWER WAY, WOMBWELL, BARNSLEY, S73 0AJ
ODS code C85013
3.2 km
THE DOVE VALLEY PMS PRACTICE
WORSBROUGH HEALTHCARE CENTRE, POWELL STREET, WORSBROUGH, BARNSLEY, S70 5NZ
ODS code C85007
4.2 km
THORPE HESLEY SURGERY
SOUGH HALL ROAD, THORPE HESLEY, ROTHERHAM, S61 2QP
ODS code C87604
4.5 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cobcar Street/Grey Street
BCT · Elsecar
- 0.1 miles
Cobcar Street/Gray Street
BCT · Elsecar
- 0.1 miles
Cobcar Lane/Cobcar Street
BCT · Elsecar
- 0.1 miles
Cobcar Lane/Strafford Avenue
BCT · Elsecar
- 0.1 miles
Hill Street/Cobcar Street
BCT · Elsecar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnsley 029C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,456 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
- 3
- 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 27 primary and 3 secondary schools. Elsecar Holy Trinity CofE Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 385 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,090 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 388 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.