Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Crofton Infant School is the nearest published school at 978 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF4 1JZ
Crofton, Ryhill & Walton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF4 1JZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1984
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 1
- Latitude
- 53.650786
- Longitude
- -1.414475
- British National Grid easting
- 438,800
- British National Grid northing
- 417,300
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
- E00059353
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 032B · E01011766
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 978 m
Crofton Infant School
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- 998 m
Crofton Junior School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Crofton Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 233
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 117
- Anti social behaviour 29
- Criminal damage and arson 17
- Public order 14
- Vehicle crime 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF4 1 residents
- 9,502
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
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
1.1 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.7 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
New Crofton
BCT · New Crofton
- 0.1 miles
New Crofton
BCT · New Crofton
- 0.2 miles
New Crofton
BCT · New Crofton
- 0.3 miles
Ash Street
BCT · New Crofton
- 0.3 miles
Ash Street
BCT · New Crofton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 032B, 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
15,985 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
233 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 117 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.