Dearne North
WardEast Barnsley. About 12,647 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 6.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Dearne North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dearne North compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dearne North safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dearne North at a rate of 128.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 107.1 per 1,000 people across Barnsley.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 154 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dearne North.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (637), other crime (284) and anti-social behaviour (246).
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.
Figures for the whole of Barnsley
These figures are published for the whole of Barnsley, not for each ward, so they describe all of Barnsley and not Dearne North alone. See Barnsley
Dearne North in brief
Dearne North had 11,901 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Dearne North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dearne North, 96.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Dearne North, 4.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.