Goldthorpe

Goldthorpe is covered by postcode district S63. It is in the Barnsley council area, England.

Typical price £153,000 Homes sold in Goldthorpe, last 12 months. ▲ 14.6% on the year before Gigabit broadband 179 of 193 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 1 of 193 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 4 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Goldthorpe, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Goldthorpe, by flood risk Of the 193 postcodes in Goldthorpe that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 192 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Goldthorpe. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A635 S63 9AA: not on the flood risk listS63 9AE: not on the flood risk listS63 9AF: not on the flood risk listS63 9AG: not on the flood risk listS63 9AH: not on the flood risk listS63 9AJ: not on the flood risk listS63 9AL: not on the flood risk listS63 9AN: not on the flood risk listS63 9AP: not on the flood risk listS63 9AQ: not on the flood risk listS63 9AS: not on the flood risk listS63 9AU: not on the flood risk listS63 9AW: not on the flood risk listS63 9AX: not on the flood risk listS63 9AY: not on the flood risk listS63 9AZ: not on the flood risk listS63 9BA: not on the flood risk listS63 9BB: not on the flood risk listS63 9BD: not on the flood risk listS63 9BE: not on the flood risk listS63 9BF: not on the flood risk listS63 9BG: not on the flood risk listS63 9BH: not on the flood risk listS63 9BJ: not on the flood risk listS63 9BL: not on the flood risk listS63 9BN: not on the flood risk listS63 9BQ: not on the flood risk listS63 9BS: not on the flood risk listS63 9BT: not on 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listS63 9NX: not on the flood risk listS63 9NZ: not on the flood risk listS63 9PA: not on the flood risk listS63 9PB: not on the flood risk listS63 9PD: not on the flood risk listS63 9PE: not on the flood risk listS63 9PF: not on the flood risk listS63 9PG: not on the flood risk listS63 9PH: not on the flood risk listS63 9PL: not on the flood risk listS63 9PP: not on the flood risk listS63 9PR: not on the flood risk listS63 9PS: not on the flood risk listS63 9PT: not on the flood risk listS63 9PU: not on the flood risk listS63 9PX: not on the flood risk listS63 9PY: not on the flood risk listS63 9PZ: not on the flood risk listS63 9QA: not on the flood risk listS63 9QB: not on the flood risk listS63 9AT: high flood risk Goldthorpe Map of every postcode in Goldthorpe, by flood risk Of the 193 postcodes in Goldthorpe that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 192 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Goldthorpe. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Goldthorpe
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 192

Of the 193 postcodes in Goldthorpe that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 192 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.5318, longitude -1.3056. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

S63 9AT3 at high risk

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

S63 9FA

What is it like to live in Goldthorpe?

Homes sold for a typical £153,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 14.6% on the 12 months before. At 179 of the 193 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 193 postcodes. It has 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Goldthorpe, 550 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Goldthorpe?

Homes in Goldthorpe sold for a typical £153,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 102 sales, up 14.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£153,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£133,500
12 months to August 2026
£153,000

▲ up 14.6% on the 12 months before

Detached£250,000 26 sales
Semi-detached£156,500 38 sales
Terraced£75,000 38 sales

Across the whole S63 district, Goldthorpe's main postcode district: a typical £165,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Goldthorpe: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Goldthorpe?

9 of the 193 postcodes now in use in Goldthorpe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 132 homes sold in Goldthorpe were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S63 district, 18%.

The newest postcodes

S63 9PLsince January 2024S63 9FRsince November 2022S63 9FQsince September 2022S63 9FUsince August 2022S63 9FWsince April 2022S63 9FTsince February 2022

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn GoldthorpeAcross the S63 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 102 (0%) 30 of 466 (6%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 132 (0%) 127 of 696 (18%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Goldthorpe?

Ofcom reports on 193 of the 193 postcodes in Goldthorpe. At 179 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit179 of 193
Postcodes where every home can get superfast188 of 193

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Goldthorpe at risk of flooding?

1 of the 193 postcodes in Goldthorpe has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 4 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1 of 193 postcodes High: 3Medium: 1Low: 3

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Goldthorpe?

The open schools at the postcodes in Goldthorpe. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Goldthorpe?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Goldthorpe is Goldthorpe Rail Station, 550 m away in a straight line.

  • Goldthorpe Rail Station Railway station 550 mWalk
  • Bolton-Upon-Dearne Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
  • Thurnscoe Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Goldthorpe?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Goldthorpe. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Goldthorpe safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,582 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Goldthorpe over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 136 September 2025
  2. 150 October 2025
  3. 136 November 2025
  4. 101 December 2025
  5. 113 January 2026
  6. 107 February 2026
  7. 151 March 2026
  8. 164 April 2026
  9. 146 May 2026
  10. 130 June 2026
  11. 129 July 2026
  12. 119 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences557 reports
Anti-social behaviour225 reports
Criminal damage and arson160 reports
Burglary125 reports
Other theft120 reports
Vehicle crime100 reports
Shoplifting91 reports
Public order90 reports

Also: other crime 57, drugs 28, robbery 17, bicycle theft 5, possession of weapons 5, theft from the person 2.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Goldthorpe?

Council
Barnsley
Parliamentary constituency
Barnsley South
Police force area
South Yorkshire
Region
Yorkshire and The Humber
Country
England
MP
Stephanie Peacock (Labour)

All 193 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Goldthorpe postcodes

193 postcodes in use in Goldthorpe, by district:

S63 postcode district,193 postcodes

That district is in the S postcode area.

Check a Goldthorpe postcode

Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.

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Places near Goldthorpe

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Goldthorpe's £153,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Bolton upon Dearne1.7 km, £140,000Thurnscoe1.7 km, £148,000Barnburgh and Harlington2.4 km, £250,000Great Houghton3.7 km, £160,000Mexborough4.1 km, £156,500Wath upon Dearne4.3 km, £175,000Darfield4.9 km, £160,000Swinton, Rotherham5.4 km, £182,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Goldthorpe

What is it like to live in Goldthorpe?
Homes sold for a typical £153,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 14.6% on the 12 months before. At 179 of the 193 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 193 postcodes. It has 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Goldthorpe, 550 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Goldthorpe?
Goldthorpe is covered by postcode district S63, across 193 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Goldthorpe in?
Goldthorpe is in the Barnsley council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Goldthorpe?
Goldthorpe is in the Barnsley South parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Stephanie Peacock (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Goldthorpe?
Homes in Goldthorpe sold for a typical £153,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 102 sales, up 14.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Goldthorpe?
In Goldthorpe, primary schools at its postcodes include Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Goldthorpe Primary Academy and Highgate Primary Academy; secondary schools at its postcodes include Astrea Academy Dearne. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Goldthorpe have a railway station?
Yes: Goldthorpe is 550 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Goldthorpe, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Goldthorpe?
Ofcom reports on 193 of the 193 postcodes in Goldthorpe. At 179 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Goldthorpe at risk of flooding?
1 of the 193 postcodes in Goldthorpe has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 4 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Goldthorpe?
9 of the 193 postcodes now in use in Goldthorpe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 132 homes sold in Goldthorpe were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S63 district, 18%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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