Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 6 secondary schools. Enrich Academy is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF1 5SJ
Normanton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Normanton
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF1
- Postcode sector
- WF1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF1 5SJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF1
- Postcode sector
- WF1 5
- Latitude
- 53.670857
- Longitude
- -1.450811
- British National Grid easting
- 436,381
- British National Grid northing
- 419,514
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Normanton · E05016533
- Parish or community
- E04000248
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059620
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 016C · E01011815
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 016 · E02002453
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
- 42
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 6
- 1.6 km
Enrich Academy
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- 1.7 km
Shay Lane Primary (J and I) School
Community school
- 2.1 km
Crofton Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 467
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 198
- Criminal damage and arson 54
- Other theft 42
- Public order 39
- Anti social behaviour 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- WF1 5 residents
- 7,328
1 female, 1 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF1 5 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
13
within 5 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
2.2 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
2.5 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
2.7 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
2.9 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
3.1 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
3.2 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
3.8 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
3.9 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
4.3 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
4.7 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
4.7 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
4.8 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
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
Heath Farm
BCT · Heath Common
- 0.2 miles
Heath Farm
BCT · Heath Common
- 0.4 miles
Kendal Rise
BCT · Heath Common
- 0.4 miles
Kendal Rise
BCT · Heath Common
- 0.5 miles
Bar House
BCT · Heath Common
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 016C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,319 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
467 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 198 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.