Property market
The five-year median is £275,000 from 9 recorded sales in WF2 6UJ. 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 6UJ
Crofton, Ryhill & Walton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF2 6UJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2021
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 6
- Latitude
- 53.646334
- Longitude
- -1.460025
- British National Grid easting
- 435,793
- British National Grid northing
- 416,781
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Crofton, Ryhill & Walton · E05016528
- Parish or community
- E04013435
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00060253
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 038B · E01011941
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 038 · E02002475
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
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Charles Court, Walton, Wakefield, WF2 6UJ | 20 December 2022 | £275,000 |
| 10, Charles Court, Walton, Wakefield, WF2 6UJ | 28 February 2022 | £280,000 |
| 4, Charles Court, Walton, Wakefield, WF2 6UJ | 3 December 2021 | £230,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 308 m
Walton Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.2 km
Shay Lane Primary (J and I) School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 115
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 57
- Anti social behaviour 14
- Other crime 12
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Vehicle crime 7
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
- 10%
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
6
within 5 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
2.5 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
3.1 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
3.3 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
4.4 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
4.5 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
5.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Walton School
BCT · Walton
- 0.2 miles
The Grove
BCT · Walton
- 0.3 miles
Walton School
BCT · Walton
- 0.3 miles
Cherry Tree Road
BCT · Walton
- 0.3 miles
Thornhill Drive
BCT · Walton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 038B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,806 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 0
- 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
Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Walton Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 308 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
115 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 57 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.