Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 4 secondary schools. Simpson's Lane Academy is the nearest published school at 560 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF11 0BS
Knottingley & Ferrybridge · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Knottingley
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Postcode district
- WF11
- Postcode sector
- WF11 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF11 0BS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF11
- Postcode sector
- WF11 0
- Latitude
- 53.704593
- Longitude
- -1.269198
- British National Grid easting
- 448,341
- British National Grid northing
- 423,375
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Knottingley & Ferrybridge · E05016532
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley · E14001428
- Output area
- E00059531
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 011C · E01011806
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 011 · E02002448
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 WF11
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Barkston House, Great North Road, Knottingley, WF11 0BS | 3 December 2009 | £195,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 4
- 560 m
Simpson's Lane Academy
Academy converter
- 771 m
The Vale Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Willow Green Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,910
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 830
- Criminal damage and arson 185
- Anti social behaviour 176
- Vehicle crime 163
- Shoplifting 130
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- WF11 0 residents
- 6,912
5 female, 5 male
Age bands in WF11 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.6%
1,448 residents
720 residents
1,877 residents
1,612 residents
970 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF11 0 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+
- 87.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 75%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 75%
- Gigabit-capable
- 75%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 87.5%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
5
within 5 km
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
1.6 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
2.9 km
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
3.1 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
3.3 km
TIEVE TARA
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
4.3 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
Spurriers Avenue
BCT · Ferrybridge
- 0.1 miles
Spurriers Avenue
BCT · Ferrybridge
- 0.2 miles
Warren Avenue
BCT · Ferrybridge
- 0.2 miles
Warren Avenue
BCT · Ferrybridge
- 0.3 miles
A1 Business Park
BCT · Ferrybridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 011C, 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
7,996 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 3
- 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
Recorded crime
1,910 published events cover 12 months, averaging 159.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 830 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.