Property market
The five-year median is £430,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF10 2RJ. 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.
WF10 2RJ
Castleford Central & Glasshoughton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Castleford
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Postcode district
- WF10
- Postcode sector
- WF10 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF10 2RJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 2010
- Terminated
- 1 March 2024
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF10
- Postcode sector
- WF10 2
- Latitude
- 53.731512
- Longitude
- -1.338733
- British National Grid easting
- 443,723
- British National Grid northing
- 426,325
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
- E00059272
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 002A · E01011752
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 002 · E02002439
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| One Stop Scaffolding & Netting Services Ltd, Smith Street, Castleford, WF10 2RJ | 3 February 2023 | £430,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 4
- 732 m
Castleford Wheldon Infant School and Nursery
Community school
- 787 m
Castleford Academy
Academy converter
- 902 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Castleford
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,535
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,007
- Shoplifting 240
- Anti social behaviour 200
- Vehicle crime 199
- Public order 192
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF10 2 residents
- 10,132
Age bands in WF10 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.6%
2,310 residents
1,115 residents
3,162 residents
2,641 residents
1,572 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
1.3 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
1.4 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
1.6 km
TIEVE TARA
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
1.6 km
NOVA SCOTIA MEDICAL CNTR
22A LEEDS ROAD, ALLERTON BYWATER, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2DP
ODS code B86089
2.9 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
3.7 km
KIPPAX HALL SURGERY
54 HIGH STREET, KIPPAX, LEEDS, LS25 7AB
ODS code B86092
4.4 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
4.5 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
4.6 km
GIBSON LANE PRACTICE
GIBSON LANE, KIPPAX, LEEDS, LS25 7JN
ODS code B86036
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Smith Street
BCT · Castleford
- 0.1 miles
Smith Street
BCT · Castleford
- 0.1 miles
Castleford Tigers
BCT · Castleford
- 0.2 miles
Castleford Tigers
BCT · Castleford
- 0.2 miles
Wheldon Pit Memorial
BCT · Castleford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 002A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,945 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 1
- 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
33 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 4 secondary schools. Castleford Wheldon Infant School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 732 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,535 published events cover 12 months, averaging 211.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,007 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.