Property market
The five-year median is £948,750 from 2 recorded sales in WF4 2JU. 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 2JU
Wakefield Rural · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Ward
- Wakefield Rural
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF4 2JU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 2
- Latitude
- 53.612729
- Longitude
- -1.519465
- British National Grid easting
- 431,889
- British National Grid northing
- 413,014
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Wakefield Rural · E05016541
- Parish or community
- E04013438
- Westminster constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale · E14001418
- Output area
- E00060204
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 038A · E01011935
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 038 · E02002475
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
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Church Street, Woolley, Wakefield, WF4 2JU | 22 August 2025 | £645,000 |
| 10, Church Street, Woolley, Wakefield, WF4 2JU | 27 September 2024 | £1,252,500 |
| 1a, Church Street, Woolley, Wakefield, WF4 2JU | 7 October 2019 | £580,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.9 km
Crigglestone Dane Royd Junior and Infant School
Community school
- 2.4 km
Camphill Wakefield (Pennine Camphill Community Ltd)
Special post 16 institution
- 2.8 km
Wellgate Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 37
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Public order 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Burglary 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- WF4 2 residents
- 6,650
10 female, 7 male
Age bands in WF4 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
1,090 residents
644 residents
1,505 residents
1,899 residents
1,396 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF4 2 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
- 90.9%
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
HILL BROW SURGERY PMS PRACTICE
HILL BROW SURGERY, LONGCROFT, MAPPLEWELL, BARNSLEY, S75 6FH
ODS code C85010
2.9 km
DARTON HEALTH CENTRE PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, DARTON, BARNSLEY, S75 5HQ
ODS code C85614
3.0 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
3.6 km
HIGH STREET PRACTICE
48 HIGH STREET, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4RF
ODS code C85024
4.4 km
ST GEORGE'S MEDICAL CENTRE PMS PRACTICE
ROUNDHOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, LANGSETT COURT, NEW LODGE, BARNSLEY, S71 1RY
ODS code C85619
4.5 km
ROYSTON GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 65D MIDLAND ROAD, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4QW
ODS code C85005
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
The Green
BCT · Woolley Village
- 0.2 miles
The Green
BCT · Woolley Village
- 0.5 miles
Gallows Ln Common Lane
BCT · Woolley Village
- 0.5 miles
Gallows Ln Common Lane
BCT · Woolley Village
- 0.6 miles
New Road Woolley Hall
BCT · Woolley Village
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 038A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,144 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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 2 secondary schools. Crigglestone Dane Royd Junior and Infant School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
37 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.