Property market
The five-year median is £322,500 from 5 recorded sales in WF4 1FB. 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 1FB
Crofton, Ryhill & Walton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF4 1FB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2018
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 1
- Latitude
- 53.651041
- Longitude
- -1.422656
- British National Grid easting
- 438,259
- British National Grid northing
- 417,324
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Crofton, Ryhill & Walton · E05016528
- Parish or community
- E04013424
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00180132
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 032A · E01011765
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 032 · E02002469
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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Sward Way, Crofton, Wakefield, WF4 1FB | 30 January 2026 | £245,000 |
| 15, Sward Way, Crofton, Wakefield, WF4 1FB | 6 January 2025 | £347,000 |
| 17, Sward Way, Crofton, Wakefield, WF4 1FB | 11 December 2024 | £335,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 569 m
Crofton Infant School
Academy converter
- 671 m
Crofton Junior School
Community school
- 751 m
Crofton Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 310
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 164
- Anti social behaviour 32
- Vehicle crime 21
- Public order 20
- Criminal damage and arson 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- WF4 1 residents
- 9,502
19 female, 27 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 0.5% 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
- 100%
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
3
within 5 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
682 m
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
4.9 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
4.9 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
Ash Street
BCT · New Crofton
- 0.1 miles
Ash Street
BCT · New Crofton
- 0.2 miles
Meadowfields Road
BCT · New Crofton
- 0.2 miles
Meadowfields Road
BCT · New Crofton
- 0.2 miles
New Crofton
BCT · New Crofton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 032A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,091 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
21 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Crofton Infant School is the nearest published school at 569 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
310 published events cover 12 months, averaging 25.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 164 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.