Cudworth and Shafton
TownTown in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Cudworth and Shafton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cudworth and Shafton 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 Cudworth and Shafton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cudworth and Shafton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cudworth and Shafton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cudworth and Shafton at a rate of 99.0 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, 110 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cudworth and Shafton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (528), anti-social behaviour (204) and other crime (193).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cudworth and Shafton was 84.8 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 Cudworth and Shafton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cudworth and Shafton has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Cudworth and Shafton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsley 003A | 1,576 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.1% |
| Barnsley 003B | 1,819 | 145.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.0% |
| Barnsley 003C | 1,264 | 67.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 71.2% |
| Barnsley 003D | 1,461 | 99.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.8% |
| Barnsley 008A | 1,292 | 92.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Barnsley 008B | 1,602 | 161.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 73.9% |
| Barnsley 008C | 1,593 | 95.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.7% |
| Barnsley 008D | 1,806 | 73.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
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 Cudworth and Shafton1
Middle areas in Cudworth and Shafton2
Towns near Cudworth and Shafton6
Cudworth and Shafton in brief
Cudworth and Shafton is a town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 12,685 people lived in Cudworth and Shafton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £164,000 in 2025 across 164 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 99.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cudworth and Shafton was £164,000 in 2025.
Cudworth and Shafton had 12,472 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Cudworth and Shafton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cudworth and Shafton, 90.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.