Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 5 secondary schools. Crofton Academy is the nearest published school at 87 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF4 1YX
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 1YX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 January 2014
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 1
- Latitude
- 53.656460
- Longitude
- -1.428135
- British National Grid easting
- 437,892
- British National Grid northing
- 417,924
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
- E00059346
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 5
- 87 m
Crofton Academy
Academy converter
- 135 m
Crofton Infant School
Academy converter
- 168 m
Crofton Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 371
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 190
- Anti social behaviour 34
- Criminal damage and arson 28
- Public order 25
- Vehicle crime 23
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
74 m
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
4.3 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
4.3 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
4.9 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Crofton Academy
BCT · Crofton
- 0.0 miles
Crofton Academy
BCT · Crofton
- 0.1 miles
High School
BCT · Crofton
- 0.1 miles
Crofton Junior School
BCT · Crofton
- 0.1 miles
Hare Park Lane
BCT · 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
371 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 190 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.