Property market
The five-year median is £155,000 from 7 recorded sales in WF2 7QA. 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 7QA
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF2 7QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 7
- Latitude
- 53.638314
- Longitude
- -1.511551
- British National Grid easting
- 432,393
- British National Grid northing
- 415,864
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
- E00060221
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 037D · E01011943
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 037 · E02002474
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
41 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 139, Wharncliffe Road, Wakefield, WF2 7QA | 15 April 2026 | £200,000 |
| 62, Wharncliffe Road, Wakefield, WF2 7QA | 7 January 2026 | £210,000 |
| 68, Wharncliffe Road, Wakefield, WF2 7QA | 9 May 2025 | £147,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 486 m
Camphill Wakefield (Pennine Camphill Community Ltd)
Special post 16 institution
- 494 m
Hendal Primary School
Community school
- 942 m
Crigglestone Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,157
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 591
- Anti social behaviour 129
- Public order 108
- Criminal damage and arson 78
- Vehicle crime 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 91
- Postcode households
- 35
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- WF2 7 residents
- 8,569
52 female, 39 male
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
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF2 7 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
6
within 5 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
748 m
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
3.5 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
3.9 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
3.9 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
4.8 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Boyne Hill Almshouses
BCT · Chapelthorpe
- 0.1 miles
Boyne Hill Almshouses
BCT · Chapelthorpe
- 0.2 miles
Wharncliffe Road
BCT · Chapelthorpe
- 0.2 miles
Boyne Hill Wood Lane
BCT · Chapelthorpe
- 0.2 miles
Boyne Hill Wood Lane
BCT · Chapelthorpe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 037D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,378 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Camphill Wakefield (Pennine Camphill Community Ltd) is the nearest published school at 486 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,157 published events cover 12 months, averaging 96.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 591 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.