Property market
The five-year median is £354,995 from 5 recorded sales in WF3 4LJ. 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 4LJ
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF3 4LJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF3
- Postcode sector
- WF3 4
- Latitude
- 53.697244
- Longitude
- -1.472309
- British National Grid easting
- 434,939
- British National Grid northing
- 422,439
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
- E00180012
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 007B · E01011876
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 007 · E02002444
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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Greenwood Way, Stanley, Wakefield, WF3 4LJ | 26 June 2024 | £399,995 |
| 3, Greenwood Way, Stanley, Wakefield, WF3 4LJ | 29 December 2023 | £354,995 |
| 2, Greenwood Way, Stanley, Wakefield, WF3 4LJ | 24 November 2023 | £354,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 7
- 1.0 km
Outwood Academy City Fields
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Stanley Grove Primary and Nursery Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Meadowcroft School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,537
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 774
- Public order 133
- Criminal damage and arson 103
- Other theft 102
- Vehicle crime 93
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF3 4 residents
- 7,032
Age bands in WF3 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
1,159 residents
674 residents
1,933 residents
2,174 residents
1,447 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
14
within 5 km straight-line
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
859 m
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
1.9 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
2.0 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
2.2 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
2.4 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
2.7 km
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
3.0 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
3.2 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
3.2 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
3.3 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
3.5 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
3.5 km
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
3.9 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Nellie Spindler Drive
BCT · Stanley Ferry
- 0.1 miles
Nellie Spindler Drive
BCT · Stanley Ferry
- 0.2 miles
Swithens Close
BCT · Pinderfields
- 0.2 miles
Blackwell Crescent
BCT · Pinderfields
- 0.2 miles
Swithens Close
BCT · East Moor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 007B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,555 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
55 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 7 secondary schools. Outwood Academy City Fields is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,537 published events cover 12 months, averaging 128.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 774 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.