Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 6 secondary schools. Outwood Grange Academy is the nearest published school at 873 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF3 3JN
Wrenthorpe & Outwood West · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell
- Postcode district
- WF3
- Postcode sector
- WF3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF3 3JN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF3
- Postcode sector
- WF3 3
- Latitude
- 53.715944
- Longitude
- -1.513578
- British National Grid easting
- 432,200
- British National Grid northing
- 424,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Wrenthorpe & Outwood West · E05016544
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell · E14001560
- Output area
- E00059941
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 008C · E01011893
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 008 · E02002445
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 6
- 873 m
Outwood Grange Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 891 m
Outwood Primary Academy Ledger Lane
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Rooks Nest Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,044
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 504
- Anti social behaviour 113
- Public order 86
- Vehicle crime 75
- Criminal damage and arson 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF3 3 residents
- 9,916
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
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.
GP practices
12
within 5 km straight-line
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
561 m
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
1.9 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
2.5 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
2.7 km
LEIGH VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEIGH VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE, BRADFORD ROAD, TINGLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 1RQ
ODS code B86064
3.3 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
3.4 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
3.8 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
3.8 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
4.0 km
LINGWELL CROFT SURGERY
16 SHELLDRAKE DRIVE, MIDDLETON, LEEDS, LS10 3NB
ODS code B86042
4.0 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
4.2 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Outwood Station
BCT · Outwood
- 0.1 miles
Outwood Station
BCT · Outwood
- 0.1 miles
Virginia Drive
BCT · Outwood
- 0.1 miles
Outwood Rail Station
RSE · Outwood
- 0.1 miles
Outwood Rail Station
RSE · Outwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 008C, 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
25,645 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,044 published events cover 12 months, averaging 87 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 504 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.