Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 7 secondary schools. Silcoates School is the nearest published school at 127 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF2 0PL
Wrenthorpe & Outwood West · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF2 0PL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 September 2013
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 0
- Latitude
- 53.693898
- Longitude
- -1.532066
- British National Grid easting
- 430,996
- British National Grid northing
- 422,039
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Wrenthorpe & Outwood West · E05016544
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell · E14001560
- Output area
- E00059990
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 014E · E01011891
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 014 · E02002451
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 WF2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 7
- 127 m
Silcoates School
Other independent school
- 294 m
Alverthorpe St Paul's CofE (VA) School 3-11yrs
Voluntary aided school
- 490 m
Hall Cliffe Primary School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,806
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 898
- Anti social behaviour 151
- Shoplifting 146
- Criminal damage and arson 118
- Vehicle crime 111
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF2 0 residents
- 12,606
Age bands in WF2 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 20%
2,023 residents
1,282 residents
3,019 residents
3,495 residents
2,460 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
14
within 5 km straight-line
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
1.3 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
1.6 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
1.8 km
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
2.3 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
2.4 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
2.9 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
3.0 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
3.6 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
3.7 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
3.9 km
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
4.0 km
LEIGH VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEIGH VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE, BRADFORD ROAD, TINGLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 1RQ
ODS code B86064
4.2 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
4.3 km
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Silcoates Lane Toll Bar Ln
BCT · Wrenthorpe
- 0.1 miles
Silcoates School
BCT · Wrenthorpe
- 0.1 miles
Silcoates Lane The Mount
BCT · Wrenthorpe
- 0.2 miles
Silcoates Drive
BCT · Wrenthorpe
- 0.2 miles
Silcoates Drive
BCT · Wrenthorpe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 014E, 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
10,770 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
1,806 published events cover 12 months, averaging 150.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 898 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.