Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 4 secondary schools. The Vale Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 40 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF11 8BW
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF11 8BW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF11
- Postcode sector
- WF11 8
- Latitude
- 53.709303
- Longitude
- -1.260467
- British National Grid easting
- 448,912
- British National Grid northing
- 423,905
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
- E00059559
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 011D · E01011809
- 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
- 40 m
The Vale Primary Academy
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- 720 m
Balance Alternative Provision
Other independent special school
- 833 m
Simpson's Lane Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,045
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 874
- Criminal damage and arson 197
- Anti social behaviour 181
- Vehicle crime 169
- Shoplifting 153
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF11 8 residents
- 6,443
Age bands in WF11 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
1,127 residents
613 residents
1,763 residents
1,800 residents
1,495 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
1.1 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
3.7 km
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
3.9 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
4.0 km
TIEVE TARA
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hill Top
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.1 miles
Hill Top
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.1 miles
Pottery Lane
BCT · Ferrybridge
- 0.1 miles
Knottingley Rail Station
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.1 miles
Pottery Lane
BCT · Ferrybridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 011D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,296 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,045 published events cover 12 months, averaging 170.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 874 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.