Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 7 secondary schools. Airedale Academy is the nearest published school at 641 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF10 3XA
Airedale & Ferry Fryston · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Postcode district
- WF10
- Postcode sector
- WF10 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF10 3XA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF10
- Postcode sector
- WF10 3
- Latitude
- 53.715840
- Longitude
- -1.309022
- British National Grid easting
- 445,700
- British National Grid northing
- 424,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Airedale & Ferry Fryston · E05016525
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley · E14001428
- Output area
- E00059190
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 003A · E01011743
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 003 · E02002440
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
- 46
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 7
- 641 m
Airedale Academy
Academy converter
- 860 m
Airedale Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 864 m
Airedale Infant Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,031
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 856
- Anti social behaviour 204
- Vehicle crime 169
- Criminal damage and arson 166
- Shoplifting 164
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF10 3 residents
- 13,221
Age bands in WF10 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
2,384 residents
1,372 residents
3,091 residents
3,484 residents
2,467 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
TIEVE TARA
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
1.9 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
2.4 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
2.5 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
3.1 km
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
3.1 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
3.3 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
3.5 km
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Davis Avenue
BCT · Townville
- 0.1 miles
Davis Avenue
BCT · Townville
- 0.1 miles
Hillcrest Avenue
BCT · Townville
- 0.1 miles
Hillcrest Avenue
BCT · Townville
- 0.1 miles
Sheepwalk Ln Poplar Avenue
BCT · Townville
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 003A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,501 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
2,031 published events cover 12 months, averaging 169.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 856 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.