Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Grange School is the nearest published school at 283 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF10 1BY
Castleford Central & Glasshoughton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Postcode district
- WF10
- Postcode sector
- WF10 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF10 1BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF10
- Postcode sector
- WF10 1
- Latitude
- 53.724956
- Longitude
- -1.369874
- British National Grid easting
- 441,675
- British National Grid northing
- 425,577
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Castleford Central & Glasshoughton · E05016527
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley · E14001428
- Output area
- E00059295
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 004B · E01011759
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 004 · E02002441
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 WF10
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 5
- 283 m
The Grange School
Other independent special school
- 375 m
Castleford Three Lane Ends Academy
Academy converter
- 848 m
Half Acres Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,130
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,153
- Other theft 375
- Shoplifting 337
- Anti social behaviour 228
- Public order 220
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF10 1 residents
- 3,698
Age bands in WF10 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.1%
773 residents
419 residents
1,431 residents
1,054 residents
554 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.
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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 66.7%
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
11
within 5 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
853 m
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
905 m
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
1.1 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
2.0 km
NOVA SCOTIA MEDICAL CNTR
22A LEEDS ROAD, ALLERTON BYWATER, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2DP
ODS code B86089
2.5 km
TIEVE TARA
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
3.7 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
4.3 km
KIPPAX HALL SURGERY
54 HIGH STREET, KIPPAX, LEEDS, LS25 7AB
ODS code B86092
4.6 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
4.8 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
4.9 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.9 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
Bryan Close
BCT · Castleford
- 0.1 miles
Phillips Street
BCT · Castleford
- 0.1 miles
Bryan Close
BCT · Castleford
- 0.2 miles
Three Lane Ends Academy
BCT · Castleford
- 0.2 miles
Wellington Street Business Pk
BCT · Castleford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 004B, 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
5,015 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 3
- 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
Recorded crime
3,130 published events cover 12 months, averaging 260.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,153 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.