Property market
The five-year median is £895,000 from 3 recorded sales in WF2 6BX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wakefield is £198,519 in June 2026, up 4.8% year on year.
WF2 6BX
Wakefield South · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Ward
- Wakefield South
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF2 6BX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 6
- Latitude
- 53.655564
- Longitude
- -1.486113
- British National Grid easting
- 434,061
- British National Grid northing
- 417,795
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Wakefield South · E05016542
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale · E14001418
- Output area
- E00060232
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 033B · E01011945
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 033 · E02002470
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Farringford Court, Wakefield, WF2 6BX | 5 December 2024 | £950,000 |
| 2, Farringford Court, Wakefield, WF2 6BX | 29 October 2024 | £895,000 |
| 1, Farringford Court, Wakefield, WF2 6BX | 20 December 2023 | £875,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 6
- 56 m
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 627 m
St Thomas � Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
The Castle Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,459
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 667
- Anti social behaviour 114
- Other theft 108
- Public order 106
- Criminal damage and arson 105
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF2 6 residents
- 8,435
Age bands in WF2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 32%
1,105 residents
669 residents
1,476 residents
2,421 residents
2,665 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
11
within 5 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
1.6 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
1.9 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
2.8 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
3.0 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
3.1 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
3.7 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
3.9 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
3.9 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
4.0 km
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
4.2 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
4.3 km
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
- 0.0 miles
Chevet Lane
BCT · Sandal
- 0.1 miles
Chevet Lane
BCT · Sandal
- 0.1 miles
The Castle
BCT · Sandal
- 0.2 miles
The Castle
BCT · Sandal
- 0.2 miles
Milnthorpe Crescent
BCT · Sandal
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 033B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,944 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 6 secondary schools. Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 56 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,459 published events cover 12 months, averaging 121.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 667 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.