Wombwell
TownTown in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Wombwell is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wombwell 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 Wombwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wombwell compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wombwell safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wombwell at a rate of 95.3 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, 191 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wombwell.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (696), anti-social behaviour (328) and other crime (257).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wombwell was 98.6 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 Wombwell, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wombwell has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wombwell
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsley 023A | 1,718 | 61.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.4% |
| Barnsley 023B | 2,255 | 90.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.5% |
| Barnsley 023C | 1,735 | 119.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.2% |
| Barnsley 023D | 2,022 | 105.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.0% |
| Barnsley 026A | 1,853 | 140.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.7% |
| Barnsley 026B | 1,659 | 84.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.1% |
| Barnsley 026C | 1,684 | 80.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Barnsley 026E | 1,406 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.2% |
| Barnsley 026F | 1,586 | 114.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 62.4% |
| Barnsley 026G | 1,405 | 92.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.9% |
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 Wombwell1
Middle areas in Wombwell2
Towns near Wombwell6
Wombwell in brief
Wombwell is a town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 17,533 people lived in Wombwell in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £185,000 in 2025 across 255 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 95.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wombwell was £185,000 in 2025.
Wombwell had 16,758 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Wombwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wombwell, 95.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.