Great Houghton

Great Houghton is covered by postcode district S72. It is in the Barnsley council area, England.

ONS publishes this built-up area as Great Houghton (Barnsley).

Typical price £160,000 Homes sold in Great Houghton, last 12 months. ▼ 3% on the year before Gigabit broadband 32 of 69 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 4 of 69 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 11 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Great Houghton, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Great Houghton, by flood risk Of the 69 postcodes in Great Houghton that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 65 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Great Houghton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. S72 0AA: not on the flood risk listS72 0AB: not on the flood risk listS72 0AD: not on the flood risk listS72 0AE: not on the flood risk listS72 0AF: not on the flood risk listS72 0AG: not on the flood risk listS72 0AL: not on the flood risk listS72 0AN: not on the flood risk listS72 0AP: not on the flood risk listS72 0AQ: not on the flood risk listS72 0AR: not on the flood risk listS72 0AS: not on the flood risk listS72 0AT: not on the flood risk listS72 0AU: not on the flood risk listS72 0AW: not on the flood risk listS72 0AX: not on the flood risk listS72 0AY: not on the flood risk listS72 0AZ: not on the flood risk listS72 0BA: not on the flood risk listS72 0BB: not on the flood risk listS72 0BD: not on the flood risk listS72 0BE: not on the flood risk listS72 0BG: not on the flood risk listS72 0BJ: not on the flood risk listS72 0BL: not on the flood risk listS72 0BN: not on the flood risk listS72 0BP: not on the flood risk listS72 0BS: not on the flood risk listS72 0BT: not on the flood risk listS72 0BU: not on the flood risk listS72 0BW: not on the flood risk listS72 0BY: not on the flood risk listS72 0BZ: not on the flood risk listS72 0DA: not on the flood risk listS72 0DB: not on the flood risk listS72 0DD: not on the flood risk listS72 0DE: not on the flood risk listS72 0DF: not on the flood risk listS72 0DG: not on the flood risk listS72 0DH: not on the flood risk listS72 0DJ: not on the flood risk listS72 0DL: not on the flood risk listS72 0DN: not on the flood risk listS72 0DP: not on the flood risk listS72 0DQ: not on the flood risk listS72 0DR: not on the flood risk listS72 0DS: not on the flood risk listS72 0DT: not on the flood risk listS72 0DU: not on the flood risk listS72 0DW: not on the flood risk listS72 0DY: not on the flood risk listS72 0DZ: not on the flood risk listS72 0EA: not on the flood risk listS72 0EB: not on the flood risk listS72 0ED: not on the flood risk listS72 0EE: not on the flood risk listS72 0EF: not on the flood risk listS72 0EG: not on the flood risk listS72 0EH: not on the flood risk listS72 0EJ: not on the flood risk listS72 0EL: not on the flood risk listS72 0EN: not on the flood risk listS72 0EQ: not on the flood risk listS72 0ER: not on the flood risk listS72 0ES: not on the flood risk listS72 0BQ: low flood risk at worstS72 0AJ: high flood riskS72 0BF: high flood riskS72 0BH: high flood risk Great Houghton Map of every postcode in Great Houghton, by flood risk Of the 69 postcodes in Great Houghton that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 65 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Great Houghton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Great Houghton
  • A home or business at high risk: 3
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 65

Of the 69 postcodes in Great Houghton that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 65 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.5534, longitude -1.3491. 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.

S72 0BH9 at high riskS72 0AJ1 at high riskS72 0BF1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Great Houghton?

Homes sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3% on the 12 months before. At 32 of the 69 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 11 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4 of its 69 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Garland House Surgery, 2.6 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Thurnscoe, 2.8 km 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 Great Houghton?

Homes in Great Houghton sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 33 sales, down 3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£160,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£165,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 3% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £282,500 6 sales
  • Semi-detached £165,500 12 sales
  • Terraced £130,000 15 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole S72 district, Great Houghton's main postcode district: a typical £168,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Great Houghton: 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 Great Houghton?

None of the 69 postcodes now in use in Great Houghton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 27 homes sold in Great Houghton were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S72 district, 2%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Great HoughtonAcross the S72 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 33 (0%) 0 of 280 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 1 of 27 (4%) 6 of 332 (2%)

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 Great Houghton?

Ofcom reports on 69 of the 69 postcodes in Great Houghton. At 32 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit32 of 69
Postcodes where every home can get superfast69 of 69

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 Great Houghton at risk of flooding?

4 of the 69 postcodes in Great Houghton have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 11 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 4 of 69 postcodes High: 11Low: 4

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 Great Houghton?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Great Houghton. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. 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 Great Houghton?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Great Houghton is Thurnscoe Rail Station, 2.8 km away in a straight line.

  • Thurnscoe Rail Station Railway station 2.8 kmCycle
  • Goldthorpe Rail Station Railway station 3.2 kmCycle
  • Bolton-Upon-Dearne Rail Station Railway station 4.6 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 Great Houghton?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Great Houghton. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. 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 Great Houghton safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 322 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Great Houghton 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. 25 September 2025
  2. 15 October 2025
  3. 39 November 2025
  4. 25 December 2025
  5. 29 January 2026
  6. 20 February 2026
  7. 29 March 2026
  8. 20 April 2026
  9. 30 May 2026
  10. 18 June 2026
  11. 29 July 2026
  12. 43 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences114 reports
Criminal damage and arson39 reports
Anti-social behaviour36 reports
Vehicle crime35 reports
Burglary27 reports
Other theft20 reports
Shoplifting15 reports
Public order14 reports

Also: other crime 7, drugs 6, bicycle theft 3, robbery 3, possession of weapons 3.

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 Great Houghton?

Council
Barnsley
Parliamentary constituency
Barnsley North
Police force area
South Yorkshire
Region
Yorkshire and The Humber
Country
England
MP
Dan Jarvis (Labour)

All 69 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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Great Houghton postcodes

69 postcodes in use in Great Houghton, by district:

S72 postcode district,69 postcodes

That district is in the S postcode area.

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Places near Great Houghton

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Great Houghton's £160,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Thurnscoe2.5 km, £148,000Darfield2.8 km, £160,000Grimethorpe3.2 km, £152,500Goldthorpe3.7 km, £153,000Bolton upon Dearne4.3 km, £140,000South Kirkby4.7 km, £174,000Wombwell4.9 km, £175,000Brierley5.1 km, £205,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Great Houghton

What is it like to live in Great Houghton?
Homes sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3% on the 12 months before. At 32 of the 69 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 11 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4 of its 69 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Garland House Surgery, 2.6 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Thurnscoe, 2.8 km 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 Great Houghton?
Great Houghton is covered by postcode district S72, across 69 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Great Houghton in?
Great Houghton is in the Barnsley council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Great Houghton?
Great Houghton is in the Barnsley North parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Dan Jarvis (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Great Houghton?
Homes in Great Houghton sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 33 sales, down 3% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Great Houghton?
In Great Houghton, primary schools at its postcodes include Sandhill Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Robert Ogden School, 1.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Does Great Houghton have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Great Houghton is Thurnscoe, 2.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Great Houghton?
Ofcom reports on 69 of the 69 postcodes in Great Houghton. At 32 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Great Houghton at risk of flooding?
4 of the 69 postcodes in Great Houghton have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 11 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 Great Houghton?
None of the 69 postcodes now in use in Great Houghton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 27 homes sold in Great Houghton were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S72 district, 2%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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