Barnsley
TownTown in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Barnsley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Barnsley add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Barnsley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Barnsley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Barnsley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Barnsley at a rate of 152.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 988 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Barnsley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,987), other crime (2,076) and anti-social behaviour (1,760).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Barnsley was 162.0 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Barnsley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Barnsley has no single figure. Of its 43 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 14 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Barnsley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsley 007A | 1,539 | 100.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Barnsley 007B | 1,645 | 336.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Barnsley 007C | 1,630 | 147.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Barnsley 007D | 1,696 | 106.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.1% |
| Barnsley 007E | 1,670 | 136.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.4% |
| Barnsley 007F | 1,485 | 164.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Barnsley 009A | 1,297 | 122.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.9% |
| Barnsley 009B | 1,403 | 72.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.7% |
| Barnsley 009C | 2,294 | 62.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Barnsley 009D | 1,308 | 61.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Barnsley 009E | 1,676 | 235.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Barnsley 010C | 1,441 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Barnsley 010D | 1,461 | 87.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Barnsley 010E | 1,774 | 213.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.6% |
| Barnsley 010H | 2,581 | 59.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.8% |
| Barnsley 010I | 1,489 | 91.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.7% |
| Barnsley 010J | 1,463 | 200.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.7% |
| Barnsley 011A | 2,626 | 67.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.0% |
| Barnsley 011B | 1,972 | 124.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.7% |
| Barnsley 011C | 1,454 | 142.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Barnsley 011D | 1,922 | 62.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.8% |
| Barnsley 012E | 1,452 | 64.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
| Barnsley 012F | 2,165 | 76.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.4% |
| Barnsley 012G | 1,281 | 167.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Barnsley 013A | 1,509 | 431.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.4% |
| Barnsley 013B | 1,876 | 915.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 58.8% |
| Barnsley 013C | 1,507 | 170.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.3% |
| Barnsley 013D | 1,849 | 94.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Barnsley 013E | 1,524 | 90.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.9% |
| Barnsley 013F | 2,254 | 146.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.8% |
| Barnsley 013G | 1,574 | 99.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.7% |
| Barnsley 015A | 1,424 | 130.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.1% |
| Barnsley 015B | 1,410 | 29.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Barnsley 015C | 2,117 | 155.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.9% |
| Barnsley 015D | 1,812 | 127.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.2% |
| Barnsley 017A | 1,580 | 184.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.5% |
| Barnsley 017B | 1,478 | 129.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.4% |
| Barnsley 017C | 1,454 | 131.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Barnsley 017D | 2,261 | 106.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.9% |
| Barnsley 018A | 1,521 | 182.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Barnsley 018B | 1,592 | 145.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Barnsley 018C | 1,712 | 146.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.1% |
| Barnsley 018D | 1,406 | 189.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Dan JarvisLabourMP for Barnsley North
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Barnsley3
Middle areas in Barnsley8
Towns near Barnsley6
Barnsley in brief
Barnsley is a town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 73,883 people lived in Barnsley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £165,000 in 2025 across 853 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 152.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Barnsley was £165,000 in 2025.
Barnsley had 71,394 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Barnsley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Barnsley, 94.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.