Property market
The five-year median is £1,740,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF2 7AX. 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 7AX
Wakefield West · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Ward
- Wakefield West
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF2 7AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2004
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 7
- Latitude
- 53.667926
- Longitude
- -1.506123
- British National Grid easting
- 432,729
- British National Grid northing
- 419,161
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Wakefield West · E05016543
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell · E14001560
- Output area
- E00060030
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 028A · E01011902
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 028 · E02002465
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Winston House, Monckton Road, Wakefield, WF2 7AX | 13 December 2024 | £1,740,000 |
| Winston House, Monckton Road, Wakefield, WF2 7AX | 5 January 2021 | £2,750,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 61
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 7
- 510 m
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication Resource
Voluntary controlled school
- 666 m
Trinity Academy Cathedral
Academy converter
- 883 m
The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,579
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,474
- Shoplifting 359
- Anti social behaviour 278
- Public order 273
- Criminal damage and arson 228
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF2 7 residents
- 8,569
Age bands in WF2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.3%
1,611 residents
836 residents
2,192 residents
2,319 residents
1,554 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
- 100%
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
1.1 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
1.3 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
1.5 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
1.8 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
1.9 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
2.1 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
2.6 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
2.8 km
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
3.0 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
3.1 km
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
4.8 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
- 0.0 miles
Holmfield Lane
BCT · Thornes
- 0.1 miles
Holmfield Lane
BCT · Thornes
- 0.1 miles
Wakefield Business Park
BCT · Thornes
- 0.1 miles
Thornes Rd Denby Dale Road
BCT · Thornes
- 0.1 miles
Wakefield Business Park
BCT · Thornes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 028A, 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
13,317 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 1
- 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
61 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 7 secondary schools. Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication Resource is the nearest published school at 510 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,579 published events cover 12 months, averaging 298.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,474 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.