Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Botolphs CE Academy is the nearest published school at 634 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF11 8DB
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 8DB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF11
- Postcode sector
- WF11 8
- Latitude
- 53.707402
- Longitude
- -1.231080
- British National Grid easting
- 450,854
- British National Grid northing
- 423,714
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
- E00059528
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 010D · E01011810
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 010 · E02002447
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
- 17
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 634 m
St Botolphs CE Academy
Academy converter
- 810 m
De Lacy Academy
Academy converter
- 950 m
England Lane Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 796
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 303
- Shoplifting 112
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Public order 64
- Anti social behaviour 62
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
1
within 5 km
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
992 m
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
Low Green
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.1 miles
Fernley Green
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.1 miles
Fernley Green
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.1 miles
Fernley Green
BCT · Knottingley
- 0.1 miles
Common Lane
BCT · Knottingley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 010D, 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
8,345 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
Recorded crime
796 published events cover 12 months, averaging 66.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 303 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.