Grimethorpe

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

Typical price £152,500 Homes sold in Grimethorpe, last 12 months. ▲ 3.7% on the year before Gigabit broadband 79 of 141 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 10 of 142 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 26 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Grimethorpe, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Grimethorpe, by flood risk Of the 142 postcodes in Grimethorpe that ONS places, 7 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 132 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Grimethorpe. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A6195 S72 7AA: not on the flood risk listS72 7AB: not on the flood risk listS72 7AD: not on the flood risk listS72 7AE: not on the flood risk listS72 7AF: not on the flood risk listS72 7AG: not on the flood risk listS72 7AH: not on the flood risk listS72 7AL: not on the flood risk listS72 7AN: not on the flood risk listS72 7AP: not on the flood risk listS72 7AQ: not on the flood risk listS72 7AR: not on the flood risk listS72 7AT: not on the flood risk listS72 7AW: not on the flood risk listS72 7AX: not on the flood risk listS72 7AZ: not on the flood risk listS72 7BA: not on the flood risk listS72 7BB: not on the flood risk listS72 7BE: not on the flood risk listS72 7BF: not on the flood risk listS72 7BH: not on the flood risk listS72 7BL: not on the flood risk listS72 7BQ: not on the flood risk listS72 7DB: not on the flood risk listS72 7DH: not on the flood risk listS72 7DJ: not on the flood risk listS72 7DL: not on the flood risk listS72 7DN: not on the flood risk listS72 7DP: not on the flood risk listS72 7DR: not on the flood risk listS72 7DS: not on the flood risk listS72 7DT: not on the flood risk listS72 7DU: not on the flood risk listS72 7DW: not on the flood risk listS72 7DX: not on the flood risk listS72 7DZ: not on the flood risk listS72 7EB: not on the flood risk listS72 7EE: not on the flood risk listS72 7EF: not on the flood risk listS72 7EG: not on the flood risk listS72 7EL: not on the flood risk listS72 7EN: not on the flood risk listS72 7EQ: not on the flood risk listS72 7ER: not on the flood risk listS72 7ES: not on the flood risk listS72 7ET: not on the flood risk listS72 7EU: not on the flood risk listS72 7EW: not on the flood risk listS72 7EX: not on the flood risk listS72 7EY: not on the flood risk listS72 7EZ: not on the flood risk listS72 7FB: not on the flood risk listS72 7FD: not on the flood risk listS72 7FE: not on the flood risk listS72 7FF: not on the flood risk listS72 7FG: not on the flood risk listS72 7FH: not on the flood risk listS72 7FJ: not on the flood risk listS72 7FN: not on the flood risk listS72 7FP: not on the flood risk listS72 7FQ: not on the flood risk listS72 7FS: not on the flood risk listS72 7FU: not on the flood risk listS72 7FW: not on the flood risk listS72 7FX: not on the flood risk listS72 7FY: not on the flood risk listS72 7GD: not on the flood risk listS72 7GH: not on the flood risk listS72 7HA: not on the flood risk listS72 7HB: not on the flood risk listS72 7HD: not on the flood risk listS72 7HE: not on the flood risk listS72 7HG: not on the flood risk listS72 7HL: not on the flood risk listS72 7HN: not on the flood risk listS72 7HP: not on the flood risk listS72 7HW: not on the flood risk listS72 7HZ: not on the flood risk listS72 7JB: not on the flood risk listS72 7JD: not on the flood risk listS72 7JE: not on the flood risk listS72 7JF: not on the flood risk listS72 7JG: not on the flood risk listS72 7JH: not on the flood risk listS72 7JJ: not on the flood risk listS72 7JL: not on the flood risk listS72 7JN: not on the flood risk listS72 7JP: not on the flood risk listS72 7JQ: not on the flood risk listS72 7JR: not on the flood risk listS72 7JU: not on the flood risk listS72 7JW: not on the flood risk listS72 7JX: not on the flood risk listS72 7JY: not on the flood risk listS72 7JZ: not on the flood risk listS72 7LB: not on the flood risk listS72 7LD: not on the flood risk listS72 7LE: not on the flood risk listS72 7LF: not on the flood risk listS72 7LG: not on the flood risk listS72 7LJ: not on the flood risk listS72 7LP: not on the flood risk listS72 7LQ: not on the flood risk listS72 7LR: not on the flood risk listS72 7LS: not on the flood risk listS72 7LT: not on the flood risk listS72 7LW: not on the flood risk listS72 7LX: not on the flood risk listS72 7NA: not on the flood risk listS72 7NB: not on the flood risk listS72 7ND: not on the flood risk listS72 7NE: not on the flood risk listS72 7NF: not on the flood risk listS72 7NG: not on the flood risk listS72 7NH: not on the flood risk listS72 7NJ: not on the flood risk listS72 7NL: not on the flood risk listS72 7NN: not on the flood risk listS72 7NP: not on the flood risk listS72 7NQ: not on the flood risk listS72 7NR: not on the flood risk listS72 7NS: not on the flood risk listS72 7NT: not on the flood risk listS72 7NU: not on the flood risk listS72 7NW: not on the flood risk listS72 7NX: not on the flood risk listS72 7NY: not on the flood risk listS72 7NZ: not on the flood risk listS72 7PA: not on the flood risk listS72 7PB: not on the flood risk listS72 7PD: not on the flood risk listS72 7PE: not on the flood risk listS72 7EJ: low flood risk at worstS72 7FL: low flood risk at worstS72 7FZ: medium flood risk at worstS72 7BD: high flood riskS72 7BN: high flood riskS72 7EH: high flood riskS72 7EP: high flood riskS72 7FR: high flood riskS72 7FT: high flood riskS72 7GA: high flood risk Grimethorpe Map of every postcode in Grimethorpe, by flood risk Of the 142 postcodes in Grimethorpe that ONS places, 7 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 132 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Grimethorpe. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A6195 Grimethorpe
  • A home or business at high risk: 7
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 2
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 132

Of the 142 postcodes in Grimethorpe that ONS places, 7 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 132 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 53.5768, longitude -1.3782. 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 7GA7 at high riskS72 7BD5 at high riskS72 7FT3 at high riskS72 7EH1 at high riskS72 7EP1 at high riskS72 7BN1 at high riskS72 7FR1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Grimethorpe?

Homes sold for a typical £152,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 3.7% on the 12 months before. At 79 of the 141 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 26 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 10 of its 142 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Moorthorpe, 5.2 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 Grimethorpe?

Homes in Grimethorpe sold for a typical £152,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 50 sales, up 3.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£152,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£147,000 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 3.7% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £309,000 8 sales
  • Semi-detached £150,000 28 sales
  • Terraced £138,000 14 sales

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

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

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Grimethorpe: 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 Grimethorpe?

3 of the 142 postcodes now in use in Grimethorpe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 3 of the 57 homes sold in Grimethorpe were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the S72 district, 2%.

The newest postcodes

S72 7FQsince November 2020S72 7FYsince June 2020S72 7FZsince April 2020

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 GrimethorpeAcross the S72 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 50 (0%) 0 of 280 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 3 of 57 (5%) 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 Grimethorpe?

Ofcom reports on 141 of the 142 postcodes in Grimethorpe. At 79 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit79 of 141
Postcodes where every home can get superfast134 of 141

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 Grimethorpe at risk of flooding?

10 of the 142 postcodes in Grimethorpe 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 26 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 10 of 142 postcodes High: 19Medium: 7Low: 13

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 Grimethorpe?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Grimethorpe. 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 Grimethorpe?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Grimethorpe is Moorthorpe Rail Station, 5.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Moorthorpe Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
  • Thurnscoe Rail Station Railway station 5.8 kmDrive
  • Fitzwilliam Rail Station Railway station 6.2 kmDrive

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 Grimethorpe?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Grimethorpe. 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 Grimethorpe safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 696 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Grimethorpe 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. 50 September 2025
  2. 65 October 2025
  3. 56 November 2025
  4. 47 December 2025
  5. 63 January 2026
  6. 52 February 2026
  7. 61 March 2026
  8. 52 April 2026
  9. 50 May 2026
  10. 72 June 2026
  11. 71 July 2026
  12. 57 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences255 reports
Anti-social behaviour97 reports
Criminal damage and arson78 reports
Vehicle crime54 reports
Burglary53 reports
Public order39 reports
Shoplifting32 reports
Other crime26 reports

Also: other theft 25, drugs 16, possession of weapons 11, robbery 5, bicycle theft 3, 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 Grimethorpe?

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

All 142 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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Grimethorpe postcodes

142 postcodes in use in Grimethorpe, by district:

S72 postcode district,142 postcodes

That district is in the S postcode area.

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Places near Grimethorpe

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Grimethorpe's £152,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Brierley2.0 km, £205,000Cudworth and Shafton2.3 km, £170,000Great Houghton3.2 km, £160,000South Hiendley3.7 km, £170,000South Kirkby4.0 km, £174,000Hemsworth4.2 km, £180,000Darfield4.6 km, £160,000Carlton, Barnsley4.9 km, £190,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Grimethorpe

What is it like to live in Grimethorpe?
Homes sold for a typical £152,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 3.7% on the 12 months before. At 79 of the 141 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 26 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 10 of its 142 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Moorthorpe, 5.2 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 Grimethorpe?
Grimethorpe is covered by postcode district S72, across 142 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Grimethorpe in?
Grimethorpe is in the Barnsley council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Grimethorpe?
Grimethorpe 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 Grimethorpe?
Homes in Grimethorpe sold for a typical £152,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 50 sales, up 3.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Grimethorpe?
In Grimethorpe, primary schools at its postcodes include Ladywood Primary School and Milefield Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Outwood Academy Shafton, 1.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Grimethorpe have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Grimethorpe is Moorthorpe, 5.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Grimethorpe?
Ofcom reports on 141 of the 142 postcodes in Grimethorpe. At 79 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Grimethorpe at risk of flooding?
10 of the 142 postcodes in Grimethorpe 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 26 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 Grimethorpe?
3 of the 142 postcodes now in use in Grimethorpe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 3 of the 57 homes sold in Grimethorpe were newly built (5%), 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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