Property market
The five-year median is £258,750 from 2 recorded sales in WF3 3JD. 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.
WF3 3JD
Stanley & Outwood East · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell
- Postcode district
- WF3
- Postcode sector
- WF3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF3 3JD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF3
- Postcode sector
- WF3 3
- Latitude
- 53.717141
- Longitude
- -1.500912
- British National Grid easting
- 433,035
- British National Grid northing
- 424,639
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Stanley & Outwood East · E05016538
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell · E14001560
- Output area
- E00059942
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 006C · E01011894
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 006 · E02002443
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 WF3
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Rhodes Gardens, Lofthouse, Wakefield, WF3 3JD | 19 January 2023 | £265,000 |
| 3, Rhodes Gardens, Lofthouse, Wakefield, WF3 3JD | 27 January 2022 | £252,500 |
| 4, Rhodes Gardens, Lofthouse, Wakefield, WF3 3JD | 22 June 2018 | £223,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 5
- 652 m
Outwood Primary Academy Lofthouse Gate
Academy converter
- 844 m
Outwood Primary Academy Ledger Lane
Academy converter
- 912 m
Rooks Nest Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 922
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 436
- Anti social behaviour 108
- Public order 74
- Vehicle crime 58
- Criminal damage and arson 55
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- WF3 3 residents
- 9,916
8 female, 8 male
Age bands in WF3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
1,733 residents
939 residents
2,553 residents
2,756 residents
1,660 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF3 3 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
- 33.3%
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
12
within 5 km
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
1.0 km
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
1.4 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
1.7 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
2.7 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
3.4 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
3.7 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
3.9 km
LEIGH VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEIGH VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE, BRADFORD ROAD, TINGLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 1RQ
ODS code B86064
4.0 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
4.1 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
4.2 km
LINGWELL CROFT SURGERY
16 SHELLDRAKE DRIVE, MIDDLETON, LEEDS, LS10 3NB
ODS code B86042
4.3 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ridings Way
BCT · Lofthouse Gate
- 0.1 miles
Ridings Way
BCT · Lofthouse Gate
- 0.1 miles
Potovens Lane Partons Place
BCT · Lofthouse Gate
- 0.1 miles
Potovens Lane Partons Place
BCT · Lofthouse Gate
- 0.2 miles
Canal Lane
BCT · Lofthouse Gate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 006C, 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
27,210 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 5 secondary schools. Outwood Primary Academy Lofthouse Gate is the nearest published school at 652 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
922 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 436 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.