Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 6 secondary schools. Outwood Grange Academy is the nearest published school at 360 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF2 0YW
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 0YW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 July 2005
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 0
- Latitude
- 53.708700
- Longitude
- -1.518040
- British National Grid easting
- 431,911
- British National Grid northing
- 423,692
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
- E00059953
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 014A · E01011885
- 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
- 60
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 6
- 360 m
Outwood Grange Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 848 m
Wrenthorpe Academy
Academy converter
- 889 m
Outwood Primary Academy Ledger Lane
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,307
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 598
- Anti social behaviour 144
- Vehicle crime 101
- Public order 100
- Criminal damage and arson 89
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
13
within 5 km straight-line
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
456 m
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
2.0 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
2.6 km
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
2.8 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
2.8 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
2.9 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
3.4 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
3.4 km
LEIGH VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEIGH VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE, BRADFORD ROAD, TINGLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 1RQ
ODS code B86064
3.5 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
3.5 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
4.1 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
4.7 km
LINGWELL CROFT SURGERY
16 SHELLDRAKE DRIVE, MIDDLETON, LEEDS, LS10 3NB
ODS code B86042
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Robin Hood Hill
BCT · Carr Gate
- 0.1 miles
Robin Hood Hill
BCT · Carr Gate
- 0.1 miles
Wakefield 41 Business Park
BCT · Outwood
- 0.1 miles
Thompson Drive
BCT · Wrenthorpe
- 0.2 miles
Wakefield 41 Business Park
BCT · Carr Gate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 014A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,792 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,307 published events cover 12 months, averaging 108.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 598 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.