Property market
The five-year median is £282,621 from 2 recorded sales in WF1 5GF. 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 5GF
Wakefield South · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Ward
- Wakefield South
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale
- Postcode district
- WF1
- Postcode sector
- WF1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF1 5GF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF1
- Postcode sector
- WF1 5
- Latitude
- 53.671309
- Longitude
- -1.473404
- British National Grid easting
- 434,888
- British National Grid northing
- 419,553
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Wakefield South · E05016542
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale · E14001418
- Output area
- E00060078
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 030D · E01011917
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 030 · E02002467
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Haywards Way, Wakefield, WF1 5GF | 26 September 2025 | £261,246 |
| 5, Haywards Way, Wakefield, WF1 5GF | 26 September 2025 | £303,996 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 37
- Secondary
- 7
- 836 m
Sandal Magna Community Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 951 m
The Castle Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 1.3 km
St Thomas � Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,400
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,067
- Criminal damage and arson 201
- Public order 185
- Anti social behaviour 161
- Other theft 159
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF1 5 residents
- 7,328
Age bands in WF1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.6%
1,292 residents
905 residents
2,440 residents
1,664 residents
905 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
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
1.1 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
1.7 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
1.7 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
2.1 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
3.1 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
3.2 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
3.3 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
3.4 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
3.5 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
3.7 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
4.2 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
4.5 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
4.7 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
4.8 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
- 0.2 miles
St Catherine's Villas
BCT · Agbrigg
- 0.2 miles
Agbrigg Road
BCT · Belle Vue
- 0.2 miles
Agbrigg Road
BCT · Belle Vue
- 0.2 miles
Frederick Avenue
BCT · Belle Vue
- 0.2 miles
Frederick Avenue
BCT · Belle Vue
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 030D, 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
1,489 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 37 primary and 7 secondary schools. Sandal Magna Community Academy is the nearest published school at 836 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,400 published events cover 12 months, averaging 200 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,067 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.