Property market
The five-year median is £285,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF4 1EQ. 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.
WF4 1EQ
Featherstone · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Ward
- Featherstone
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF4 1EQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 1
- Latitude
- 53.673506
- Longitude
- -1.412223
- British National Grid easting
- 438,928
- British National Grid northing
- 419,829
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Featherstone · E05016529
- Parish or community
- E04013430
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059618
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 024E · E01011817
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 024 · E02002461
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 WF4
Property
35 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, The Oaks, Sharlston Common, Wakefield, WF4 1EQ | 3 December 2025 | £285,000 |
| 7, The Oaks, Sharlston Common, Wakefield, WF4 1EQ | 7 April 2017 | £165,000 |
| 11, The Oaks, Sharlston Common, Wakefield, WF4 1EQ | 3 March 2014 | £184,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 6
- 203 m
Sharlston Community School
Academy converter
- 528 m
Streethouse Junior, Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Enrich Academy
Academy alternative provision converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 447
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 267
- Criminal damage and arson 43
- Public order 33
- Other crime 26
- Anti social behaviour 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 36
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- WF4 1 residents
- 9,502
17 female, 19 male
Age bands in WF4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.6%
1,636 residents
942 residents
2,237 residents
2,754 residents
1,958 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF4 1 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
- 58.3%
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
7
within 5 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
2.1 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
2.5 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
3.1 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
3.6 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
3.7 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
3.7 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
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
- 0.2 miles
Hammer Lane
BCT · New Sharlston
- 0.2 miles
Hammer Lane
BCT · New Sharlston
- 0.2 miles
Gin Lane
BCT · Streethouse
- 0.2 miles
Gin Lane
BCT · Streethouse
- 0.3 miles
Weeland Crescent
BCT · Sharlston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 024E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,585 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
30 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 6 secondary schools. Sharlston Community School is the nearest published school at 203 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
447 published events cover 12 months, averaging 37.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 267 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.