Property market
The five-year median is £232,463 from 1 recorded sale in WF2 9AR. 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 9AR
Wakefield North · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Ward
- Wakefield North
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF2 9AR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 2015
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF2
- Postcode sector
- WF2 9
- Latitude
- 53.684377
- Longitude
- -1.513441
- British National Grid easting
- 432,233
- British National Grid northing
- 420,988
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Wakefield North · E05016540
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell · E14001560
- Output area
- E00179981
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 019A · E01011920
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 019 · E02002456
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria Works, Benjamin Street, Wakefield, WF2 9AR | 21 July 2023 | £232,463 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 60
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 7
- 554 m
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group
Further education
- 640 m
Wakefield Grammar Pre-Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 660 m
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,850
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,698
- Shoplifting 991
- Public order 553
- Anti social behaviour 485
- Criminal damage and arson 412
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF2 9 residents
- 10,589
Age bands in WF2 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.3%
1,913 residents
1,037 residents
3,140 residents
2,639 residents
1,339 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
- 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
355 m
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
421 m
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
1.1 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
1.3 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
1.5 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
1.5 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
2.2 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
2.5 km
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
3.0 km
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
3.6 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
4.1 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
4.5 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Moorhouse Avenue
BCT · St Johns
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Avenue
BCT · Flanshaw
- 0.1 miles
Moorhouse Avenue
BCT · St Johns
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Avenue
BCT · Flanshaw
- 0.1 miles
Darnley Avenue
BCT · St Johns
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 019A, 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
10,499 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 7 secondary schools. Heart of Yorkshire Education Group is the nearest published school at 554 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6,850 published events cover 12 months, averaging 570.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,698 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.