Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 5 secondary schools. Walton Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 128 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF2 6XD
Crofton, Ryhill & Walton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF2 6XD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 6
- Latitude
- 53.649221
- Longitude
- -1.464421
- British National Grid easting
- 435,500
- British National Grid northing
- 417,100
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
- E00060249
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 038D · E01011946
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 5
- 128 m
Walton Primary Academy
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- 1.6 km
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.8 km
St Thomas � Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 160
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 80
- Other crime 15
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Burglary 10
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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
2.6 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
2.9 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
2.9 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
4.0 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
4.1 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
4.6 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Walton School
BCT · Walton
- 0.1 miles
Thornhill Drive
BCT · Walton
- 0.1 miles
Walton School
BCT · Walton
- 0.1 miles
The Grove
BCT · Walton
- 0.1 miles
Walton Village Hall
BCT · Walton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 038D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,333 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
Recorded crime
160 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 80 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.