# Penistone

Town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.

Penistone is a town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber. Median sale price £263,248 in 2025. Recorded crime 55.4 per 1,000 people. About 8,685 people.

Town. Code E63001218. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Barnsley](https://openindex.co.uk/barnsley)

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

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £263,248** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Penistone was £263,248 in 2025. 543rd cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penistone#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 8,541** (2021). Penistone had 8,541 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 110th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penistone#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 36%** (2022). About 36% of people in Penistone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penistone#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 95.6%** (January 2026). In Penistone, 95.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/penistone#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001218) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 36% of people in Penistone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63001218) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 178 homes were sold in Penistone in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63001218) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Penistone.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001218) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Penistone had 8,541 usual residents at the census.

## How Penistone compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Penistone | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £263,248 | 19th most expensive | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2025 |
| Population | 8,541 | 9th least populated | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 36% | 31st fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 95.6% | 46th lowest | 114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · Jan 2026 |

## Is Penistone safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Penistone at a rate of 55.4 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, 46 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Penistone.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (178), anti-social behaviour (84) and other crime (68).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Penistone was 51.7 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 Penistone, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Penistone has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Penistone

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Barnsley 024B](https://openindex.co.uk/barnsley/neighbourhood/e01007428) | 1,514 | 117.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.5% |
| [Barnsley 024C](https://openindex.co.uk/barnsley/neighbourhood/e01007429) | 1,441 | 62.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.0% |
| [Barnsley 024D](https://openindex.co.uk/barnsley/neighbourhood/e01007430) | 2,837 | 27.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| [Barnsley 024E](https://openindex.co.uk/barnsley/neighbourhood/e01007431) | 1,382 | 17.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.4% |
| [Barnsley 024F](https://openindex.co.uk/barnsley/neighbourhood/e01007432) | 1,692 | 31.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.5% |

## Your MP

- [Penistone and Stocksbridge](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/penistone-and-stocksbridge): Dr Marie Tidball (Labour), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Barnsley](https://openindex.co.uk/barnsley)

## Postcode districts covering Penistone

[S36](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/s36)

## Middle areas in Penistone

[Penistone](https://openindex.co.uk/barnsley/penistone)

## Towns near Penistone

[Barugh Green and Redbrook](https://openindex.co.uk/town/barugh-green-and-redbrook), [Barnsley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/barnsley), [Darton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/darton), [Honley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/honley), [Worsbrough](https://openindex.co.uk/town/worsbrough), [Chapeltown and High Green](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chapeltown-and-high-green)

## Penistone in brief

Penistone is a town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 8,685 people lived in Penistone in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £263,248 in 2025 across 178 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 55.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Penistone was £263,248 in 2025.
Penistone had 8,541 usual residents at the census.
About 36% of people in Penistone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Penistone, 95.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001218
- Constituency: [Penistone and Stocksbridge †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/penistone-and-stocksbridge)
- Council: [Barnsley †](https://openindex.co.uk/barnsley)
- Region: [Yorkshire and The Humber](https://openindex.co.uk/yorkshire-and-the-humber)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 2.60 km²
- People, mid-2024: 8,685*
- Neighbourhoods: 5
- Output areas: 27

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Barugh Green and Redbrook](https://openindex.co.uk/town/barugh-green-and-redbrook), [Barnsley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/barnsley), [Darton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/darton), [Honley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/honley), [Worsbrough](https://openindex.co.uk/town/worsbrough), [Chapeltown and High Green](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chapeltown-and-high-green)

## Latest updates for Penistone

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63001218

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/penistone, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/penistone#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/penistone