Property market
The five-year median is £770,333 from 2 recorded sales in WF10 5PZ. 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 5PZ
Altofts & Whitwood · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Castleford
- Ward
- Altofts & Whitwood
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Postcode district
- WF10
- Postcode sector
- WF10 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF10 5PZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF10
- Postcode sector
- WF10 5
- Latitude
- 53.716639
- Longitude
- -1.397107
- British National Grid easting
- 439,886
- British National Grid northing
- 424,636
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Altofts & Whitwood · E05016526
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley · E14001428
- Output area
- E00180083
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 013A · E01011758
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 013 · E02002450
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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Viamaster Transport Ltd, Altofts Lane, Castleford, WF10 5PZ | 9 August 2024 | £1,025,666 |
| The New Wheatsheaf, Altofts Lane, Castleford, WF10 5PZ | 15 July 2022 | £515,000 |
| Bridge Inn, Altofts Lane, Castleford, WF10 5PZ | 18 August 2020 | £400,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.2 km
Normanton Common Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Ackton Pastures Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Castleford Three Lane Ends Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 686
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 262
- Anti social behaviour 80
- Vehicle crime 59
- Other theft 55
- Criminal damage and arson 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- WF10 5 residents
- 14,311
4 female, 3 male
Age bands in WF10 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.9%
2,655 residents
1,422 residents
4,679 residents
3,363 residents
1,797 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF10 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+
- 33.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 33.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 33.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 33.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 33.3%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 11.1%
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
9
within 5 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
2.3 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
2.3 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
2.8 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
2.8 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
2.9 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
2.9 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
3.0 km
NOVA SCOTIA MEDICAL CNTR
22A LEEDS ROAD, ALLERTON BYWATER, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2DP
ODS code B86089
3.8 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.7 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
- 0.0 miles
Whitwood Ln Altofts Lane
BCT · Whitwood
- 0.0 miles
Whitwood Ln Altofts Lane
BCT · Whitwood
- 0.1 miles
California Drive North
BCT · Whitwood
- 0.1 miles
California Drive North
BCT · Whitwood
- 0.2 miles
Whitwood Hall
BCT · Whitwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 013A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,049 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 5 secondary schools. Normanton Common Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
686 published events cover 12 months, averaging 57.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 262 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.