Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 6 secondary schools. Meadowcroft School is the nearest published school at 161 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF1 4EF
Wakefield East · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wakefield East
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell
- Postcode district
- WF1
- Postcode sector
- WF1 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF1 4EF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 2005
- Terminated
- 1 January 2017
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF1
- Postcode sector
- WF1 4
- Latitude
- 53.695024
- Longitude
- -1.486724
- British National Grid easting
- 433,989
- British National Grid northing
- 422,185
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
- E00168723
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 017A · E01011884
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 6
- 161 m
Meadowcroft School
Other independent special school
- 568 m
Ivy Lane School
Other independent special school
- 739 m
Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,357
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,805
- Shoplifting 490
- Public order 412
- Criminal damage and arson 268
- Other theft 264
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF1 4 residents
- 11,655
Age bands in WF1 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.3%
2,507 residents
1,320 residents
3,792 residents
2,767 residents
1,595 residents
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.
GP practices
14
within 5 km straight-line
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
857 m
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
1.2 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
1.4 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
1.8 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
2.2 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
2.4 km
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
2.4 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
2.5 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
2.8 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
3.5 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
3.6 km
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
3.9 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
4.1 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bar Lane
BCT · Pinderfields
- 0.1 miles
Pinderfields North
BCT · Pinderfields
- 0.1 miles
Pinderfields North
BCT · Pinderfields
- 0.1 miles
Bar Lane Pinderflds Hospital
BCT · Pinderfields
- 0.1 miles
Ouchthorpe Lane Bar Ln
BCT · Pinderfields
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 017A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,081 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,357 published events cover 12 months, averaging 363.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,805 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.