Hoyland
TownTown in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Hoyland is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hoyland 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 Hoyland live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hoyland compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hoyland safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hoyland at a rate of 103.5 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, 173 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hoyland.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (532), other crime (267) and anti-social behaviour (256).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hoyland was 98.7 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 Hoyland, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hoyland has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hoyland
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsley 028A | 1,566 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.5% |
| Barnsley 028B | 1,536 | 91.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.5% |
| Barnsley 029A | 1,728 | 101.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 73.6% |
| Barnsley 029B | 1,813 | 89.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.1% |
| Barnsley 029C | 1,375 | 49.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.1% |
| Barnsley 030A | 1,332 | 57.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.5% |
| Barnsley 030B | 1,476 | 101.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.2% |
| Barnsley 030C | 1,512 | 167.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 71.6% |
| Barnsley 030D | 1,502 | 140.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.4% |
| Barnsley 030E | 2,092 | 145.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.7% |
Your MP
- Stephanie PeacockLabourMP for Barnsley South
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 Hoyland1
Middle areas in Hoyland2
Towns near Hoyland6
Hoyland in brief
Hoyland is a town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 15,536 people lived in Hoyland in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £168,750 in 2025 across 194 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 103.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hoyland was £168,750 in 2025.
Hoyland had 15,527 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Hoyland live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hoyland, 85.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.