Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 5 secondary schools. Castleford Academy is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF10 4AN
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF10 4AN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF10
- Postcode sector
- WF10 4
- Latitude
- 53.724939
- Longitude
- -1.343125
- British National Grid easting
- 443,440
- British National Grid northing
- 425,591
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
- E00059275
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 002B · E01011753
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 5
- 0 m
Castleford Academy
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- 123 m
Castleford Park Junior Academy
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- 253 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Castleford
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,983
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,463
- Other theft 462
- Shoplifting 429
- Vehicle crime 286
- Anti social behaviour 285
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF10 4 residents
- 10,380
Age bands in WF10 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,458 residents
1,005 residents
2,556 residents
3,159 residents
2,032 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
11
within 5 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
862 m
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
881 m
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
1.0 km
TIEVE TARA
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
2.1 km
NOVA SCOTIA MEDICAL CNTR
22A LEEDS ROAD, ALLERTON BYWATER, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2DP
ODS code B86089
3.2 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
3.6 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
4.0 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
4.1 km
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
4.7 km
KIPPAX HALL SURGERY
54 HIGH STREET, KIPPAX, LEEDS, LS25 7AB
ODS code B86092
4.9 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
5.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Castleford Civic Centre
BCT · Castleford
- 0.0 miles
Castleford Civic Centre
BCT · Castleford
- 0.1 miles
St Joseph's School
BCT · Castleford
- 0.1 miles
Smawthorne Lane
BCT · Castleford
- 0.2 miles
Smawthorne Lane
BCT · Castleford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 002B, 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
7,795 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
- 0
- 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
3,983 published events cover 12 months, averaging 331.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,463 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.