Thurnscoe
TownTown in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Thurnscoe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Thurnscoe 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 Thurnscoe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Thurnscoe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Thurnscoe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Thurnscoe at a rate of 109.0 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, 96 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Thurnscoe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (405), other crime (158) and anti-social behaviour (150).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Thurnscoe was 98.5 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 Thurnscoe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Thurnscoe has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Thurnscoe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsley 014A | 1,693 | 86.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.8% |
| Barnsley 014B | 1,731 | 146.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Barnsley 014C | 1,329 | 88.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| Barnsley 014D | 1,733 | 110.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Barnsley 014E | 1,406 | 102.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Barnsley 014F | 1,625 | 122.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 84.8% |
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 Thurnscoe1
Middle areas in Thurnscoe1
Towns near Thurnscoe6
Thurnscoe in brief
Thurnscoe is a town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 9,705 people lived in Thurnscoe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £174,995 in 2025 across 176 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 109.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Thurnscoe was £174,995 in 2025.
Thurnscoe had 9,133 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Thurnscoe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Thurnscoe, 96.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.