Property market
The five-year median is £210,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF1 3RF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wakefield is £198,519 in June 2026, up 4.8% year on year.
WF1 3RF
Wakefield East · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Ward
- Wakefield East
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell
- Postcode district
- WF1
- Postcode sector
- WF1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF1 3RF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF1
- Postcode sector
- WF1 3
- Latitude
- 53.689104
- Longitude
- -1.498108
- British National Grid easting
- 433,242
- British National Grid northing
- 421,521
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Wakefield East · E05016539
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell · E14001560
- Output area
- E00060052
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 017B · E01011912
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 017 · E02002454
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore WF1
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, College Grove, Wakefield, WF1 3RF | 3 November 2025 | £210,000 |
| 13, College Grove, Wakefield, WF1 3RF | 15 April 2013 | £175,000 |
| 13, College Grove, Wakefield, WF1 3RF | 24 March 2005 | £189,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 7
- 226 m
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School
Other independent school
- 444 m
Wakefield Girls' High School
Other independent school
- 470 m
St Austin's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,924
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,828
- Shoplifting 875
- Public order 609
- Anti social behaviour 441
- Other theft 418
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- WF1 3 residents
- 8,882
8 female, 7 male
Age bands in WF1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.8%
1,354 residents
951 residents
2,319 residents
2,187 residents
1,380 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF1 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 44.4%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
15
within 5 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
572 m
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
868 m
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
1.0 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
1.4 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
1.4 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
1.6 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
2.2 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
2.5 km
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
2.6 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
3.1 km
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
4.5 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
4.6 km
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
4.7 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
4.9 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
5.0 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
College Grove Road College Grove View
BCT · St Johns
- 0.1 miles
College Grove Rd Back Hatfield Street
BCT · Wakefield City Centre
- 0.1 miles
College Grove Rd Hepworth Gardens
BCT · St Johns
- 0.1 miles
College Grove Rd Arundel Street
BCT · Wakefield City Centre
- 0.1 miles
Eastmoor Rd North Avenue
BCT · Newton Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 017B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,036 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 7 secondary schools. Queen Elizabeth Grammar School is the nearest published school at 226 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6,924 published events cover 12 months, averaging 577 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,828 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.