Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 6 secondary schools. Horbury Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 291 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF4 5EE
Horbury & South Ossett · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wakefield
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF4 5EE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 5
- Latitude
- 53.656718
- Longitude
- -1.544824
- British National Grid easting
- 430,180
- British National Grid northing
- 417,897
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Horbury & South Ossett · E05016531
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale · E14001418
- Output area
- E00059499
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 031C · E01011801
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 031 · E02002468
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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Poplar View, Horbury, Wakefield, WF4 5EE | 30 October 2020 | £203,000 |
| 1, Poplar View, Horbury, Wakefield, WF4 5EE | 15 April 2019 | £161,500 |
| 1, Poplar View, Horbury, Wakefield, WF4 5EE | 24 February 2017 | £129,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 6
- 291 m
Horbury Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 536 m
Horbury Academy
Academy converter
- 873 m
Horbury St Peter's and Clifton CofE (VC) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,191
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 539
- Shoplifting 123
- Public order 109
- Other theft 87
- Anti social behaviour 85
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- WF4 5 residents
- 5,629
1 female, 2 male
Age bands in WF4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
859 residents
546 residents
1,244 residents
1,685 residents
1,280 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF4 5 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
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
495 m
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
2.2 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
2.8 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
3.3 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
3.6 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
3.7 km
MIDDLESTOWN
MIDDLESTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW ROAD, MIDDLESTOWN, WAKEFIELD, WF4 4PA
ODS code B87001
3.7 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
4.0 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
4.2 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
4.6 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
4.8 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
- 0.0 miles
Millfield Road Castle View
BCT · Horbury Junction
- 0.0 miles
Millfield Road Castle View
BCT · Horbury Junction
- 0.1 miles
Daw Ln Dudfleet Lane
BCT · Horbury
- 0.1 miles
Daw Ln Dudfleet Lane
BCT · Horbury
- 0.2 miles
Calder Vale Road Millfield Rd
BCT · Horbury Junction
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 031C, 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
12,723 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
Recorded crime
1,191 published events cover 12 months, averaging 99.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 539 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.