Worsbrough
TownTown in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Worsbrough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Worsbrough 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 Worsbrough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Worsbrough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Worsbrough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Worsbrough at a rate of 124.4 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, 92 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Worsbrough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (406), other crime (206) and anti-social behaviour (158).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Worsbrough was 121.7 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 Worsbrough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Worsbrough has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Worsbrough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsley 021A | 1,467 | 101.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.2% |
| Barnsley 021B | 1,513 | 95.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.4% |
| Barnsley 021C | 1,440 | 48.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Barnsley 021D | 1,710 | 116.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Barnsley 021E | 1,566 | 135.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.5% |
| Barnsley 021F | 1,738 | 209.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
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 Worsbrough1
Middle areas in Worsbrough1
Towns near Worsbrough6
Worsbrough in brief
Worsbrough is a town in Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 9,037 people lived in Worsbrough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £170,000 in 2025 across 97 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 124.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Worsbrough was £170,000 in 2025.
Worsbrough had 8,840 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Worsbrough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Worsbrough, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.