Property market
The five-year median is £378,500 from 1 recorded sale in WF4 1QT. 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 1QT
Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton · 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 1QT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 1
- Latitude
- 53.645859
- Longitude
- -1.392654
- British National Grid easting
- 440,247
- British National Grid northing
- 416,764
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton · E05016524
- Parish or community
- E04000234
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059365
- 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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, The Villas, Nostell, Wakefield, WF4 1QT | 28 April 2023 | £378,500 |
| School House, Swine Lane, Nostell, Wakefield, WF4 1QT | 29 April 2013 | £145,000 |
| 2, The Villas, Nostell, Wakefield, WF4 1QT | 9 May 2005 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.4 km
Fitzwilliam Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
King's Meadow Academy
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Crofton Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 151
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 74
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Shoplifting 12
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Other theft 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- WF4 1 residents
- 9,502
4 female, 9 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 0.1% 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
- 25%
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
5
within 5 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
2.6 km
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
3.7 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.0 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.5 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
4.6 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
- 0.3 miles
Independent School
BCT · Nostell
- 0.3 miles
Independent School
BCT · Nostell
- 0.4 miles
Nostell Priory
BCT · Nostell
- 0.4 miles
Priory Gates
BCT · Nostell
- 0.4 miles
Priory Gates
BCT · Nostell
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.
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
27 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 3 secondary schools. Fitzwilliam Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
151 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 74 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.