Property market
The five-year median is £181,000 from 6 recorded sales in WF4 4QS. 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 4QS
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF4 4QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 4
- Latitude
- 53.648677
- Longitude
- -1.604335
- British National Grid easting
- 426,252
- British National Grid northing
- 416,979
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
- E00060201
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 035A · E01011928
- 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
Property
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Ridge Crescent, Middlestown, Wakefield, WF4 4QS | 10 June 2026 | £192,000 |
| 27, Ridge Crescent, Middlestown, Wakefield, WF4 4QS | 29 August 2025 | £260,000 |
| 22, Ridge Crescent, Middlestown, Wakefield, WF4 4QS | 9 April 2025 | £113,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 3
- 419 m
Middlestown Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Denby Grange School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 456
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 273
- Anti social behaviour 47
- Public order 33
- Other crime 22
- Criminal damage and arson 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 85
- Postcode households
- 40
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- WF4 4 residents
- 8,906
52 female, 33 male
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
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF4 4 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
- 100%
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
11
within 5 km
MIDDLESTOWN
MIDDLESTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW ROAD, MIDDLESTOWN, WAKEFIELD, WF4 4PA
ODS code B87001
326 m
THE PADDOCK SURGERY
CHAPEL LANE, THORNHILL, DEWSBURY, WF12 0DH
ODS code B85038
2.1 km
THORNHILL LEES MEDICAL CENTRE
140 SLAITHWAITE ROAD, THORNHILL LEES, DEWSBURY, WF12 9DW
ODS code B85606
3.3 km
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
3.8 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
3.9 km
SAVILE TOWN MEDICAL CTR.
SCARBOROUGH STREET, SAVILE TOWN, DEWSBURY, DEWSBURY, WF12 9AY
ODS code B85645
4.0 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
4.1 km
DR MAHMOOD & PARTNERS
NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85650
5.0 km
NORTH ROAD SUITE,RAVENSTHORPE HEALTH CTR
RAVENSTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, NETHERFIELD ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 3JY
ODS code B85009
5.0 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
5.0 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
5.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ridge Road
BCT · Overton
- 0.1 miles
Ridge Road
BCT · Overton
- 0.1 miles
New Road Oakland Crest
BCT · Overton
- 0.2 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Overton
- 0.2 miles
Green Lane Crossfields
BCT · Overton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 035A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,420 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
39 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 3 secondary schools. Middlestown Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 419 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
456 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 273 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.