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Barugh Green and Redbrook

Town

Town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.

Barugh Green and Redbrook is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Barugh Green and Redbrook 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 100% of people in Barugh Green and Redbrook live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£230,000
Joint 381st cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
7,545
7th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
100%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
96.7%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Barugh Green and Redbrook compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

Barugh Green and RedbrookMiddle
Median sale price114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2025
Median sale price: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from £125,000 to £410,000. The middle area is £207,498. Barugh Green and Redbrook is £230,000.
£230,000joint 36th most expensive
Population114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2021
Population: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 7,545 to 536,262. The middle area is 14,857. Barugh Green and Redbrook is 7,545.
7,545least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 100.0%. Barugh Green and Redbrook is 100.0%.
100%joint most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 76.7% to 99.9%. The middle area is 96.2%. Barugh Green and Redbrook is 96.7%.
96.7%joint 50th highest

Is Barugh Green and Redbrook safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Barugh Green and Redbrook at a rate of 69.8 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, 66 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Barugh Green and Redbrook.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were shoplifting (155), violence and sexual offences (135) and anti-social behaviour (81).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Barugh Green and Redbrook was 50.3 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 Barugh Green and Redbrook, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Barugh Green and Redbrook has no single figure. Of its 4 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • 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 Barugh Green and Redbrook

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Barnsley 012A1,44942.5 per 1,000796.8%
Barnsley 012B1,84636.1 per 1,000995.9%
Barnsley 012C2,077106.0 per 1,0008100.0%
Barnsley 012D1,39393.5 per 1,000593.3%

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Postcode districts covering Barugh Green and Redbrook1

Middle areas in Barugh Green and Redbrook1

Towns near Barugh Green and Redbrook6

Barugh Green and Redbrook in brief

Barugh Green and Redbrook is a town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.

About 7,694 people lived in Barugh Green and Redbrook in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £230,000 in 2025 across 134 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Barugh Green and Redbrook was £230,000 in 2025.

Barugh Green and Redbrook had 7,545 usual residents at the census.

About 100% of people in Barugh Green and Redbrook live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Barugh Green and Redbrook, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.