Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Hendal Primary School is the nearest published school at 699 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF2 7SL
Wakefield Rural · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Ward
- Wakefield Rural
- 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 7SL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 7
- Latitude
- 53.637955
- Longitude
- -1.500772
- British National Grid easting
- 433,106
- British National Grid northing
- 415,829
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Wakefield Rural · E05016541
- Parish or community
- E04013423
- Westminster constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale · E14001418
- Output area
- E00060168
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 037A · E01011934
- 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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Ashlea Court, Newmillerdam, Wakefield, WF2 7SL | 9 October 2007 | £195,000 |
| 5, Ashlea Court, Newmillerdam, Wakefield, WF2 7SL | 9 September 2005 | £112,500 |
| 6, Ashlea Court, Newmillerdam, Wakefield, WF2 7SL | 24 May 2005 | £159,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 699 m
Hendal Primary School
Community school
- 833 m
Camphill Wakefield (Pennine Camphill Community Ltd)
Special post 16 institution
- 1.0 km
Kettlethorpe High School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 905
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 434
- Anti social behaviour 105
- Public order 92
- Vehicle crime 53
- Criminal damage and arson 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- WF2 7 residents
- 8,569
3 female, 5 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 0.1% 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
5
within 5 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
851 m
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
3.7 km
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
4.1 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
4.1 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
4.7 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
Newmillerdam Lake
BCT · Newmillerdam
- 0.1 miles
Newmillerdam Lake
BCT · Newmillerdam
- 0.1 miles
School Hill Crab Lane
BCT · Newmillerdam
- 0.1 miles
Hill Top Road
BCT · Newmillerdam
- 0.1 miles
Hill Top Road
BCT · Newmillerdam
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 037A, 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
23,754 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
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
Recorded crime
905 published events cover 12 months, averaging 75.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 434 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.