Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 4 secondary schools. Simpson's Lane Academy is the nearest published school at 280 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF11 0WA
Knottingley & Ferrybridge · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 0WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 2002
- Terminated
- 1 July 2004
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF11
- Postcode sector
- WF11 0
- Latitude
- 53.701503
- Longitude
- -1.257877
- British National Grid easting
- 449,092
- British National Grid northing
- 423,039
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
- E00059535
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 011E · E01011811
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 4
- 280 m
Simpson's Lane Academy
Academy converter
- 914 m
The Vale Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 939 m
England Lane Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,907
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 806
- Criminal damage and arson 185
- Vehicle crime 161
- Anti social behaviour 159
- Shoplifting 153
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF11 0 residents
- 6,912
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
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
904 m
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
3.5 km
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
3.6 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Poplar Grove
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.0 miles
Poplar Grove
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.1 miles
Kershaw Lane
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.1 miles
Kershaw Lane
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.1 miles
Sycamore Avenue
BCT · Knottingley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 011E, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
447 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,907 published events cover 12 months, averaging 158.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 806 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.