Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 2 secondary schools. Denby Grange School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF4 4AY
Wakefield Rural · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wakefield Rural
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF4 4AY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2017
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 4
- Latitude
- 53.635280
- Longitude
- -1.614079
- British National Grid easting
- 425,616
- British National Grid northing
- 415,485
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
- E04000241
- Westminster constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale · E14001418
- Output area
- E00168748
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 035D · E01011938
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 035 · E02002472
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
- 25
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.4 km
Denby Grange School
Other independent special school
- 1.7 km
Flockton CofE (C) First School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.9 km
Middlestown Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 217
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 147
- Anti social behaviour 16
- Public order 14
- Other theft 10
- Other crime 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF4 4 residents
- 8,906
Age bands in WF4 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.9%
1,336 residents
818 residents
2,083 residents
2,751 residents
2,073 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
MIDDLESTOWN
MIDDLESTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW ROAD, MIDDLESTOWN, WAKEFIELD, WF4 4PA
ODS code B87001
1.9 km
THE PADDOCK SURGERY
CHAPEL LANE, THORNHILL, DEWSBURY, WF12 0DH
ODS code B85038
3.2 km
THORNHILL LEES MEDICAL CENTRE
140 SLAITHWAITE ROAD, THORNHILL LEES, DEWSBURY, WF12 9DW
ODS code B85606
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Lane End Farm
BCT · Flockton
- 0.4 miles
New Hall Lane
BCT · Flockton
- 0.4 miles
Lane End Farm
BCT · Flockton
- 0.4 miles
New Hall Lane
BCT · Flockton
- 0.4 miles
New Hall Approach
BCT · Overton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 035D, 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
18,151 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
217 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 147 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.