Schools
61 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 6 secondary schools. Horbury Academy is the nearest published school at 492 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF4 5HR
Horbury & South Ossett · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 5HR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 5
- Latitude
- 53.664827
- Longitude
- -1.542921
- British National Grid easting
- 430,300
- British National Grid northing
- 418,800
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
- E00059484
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 031A · E01011797
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 61
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 6
- 492 m
Horbury Academy
Academy converter
- 652 m
Evolve Academy
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
- 702 m
Horbury Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,316
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,164
- Public order 208
- Anti social behaviour 176
- Criminal damage and arson 164
- Shoplifting 144
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF4 5 residents
- 5,629
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
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
11
within 5 km straight-line
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
704 m
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
1.5 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
2.5 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
2.8 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
3.2 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
3.3 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
THORNHILL STREET, WAKEFIELD, WF1 1PG
ODS code B87017
3.6 km
MAYBUSH MEDICAL CENTRE
BELLE ISLE HEALTH PARK, PORTOBELLO ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5PN
ODS code B87012
3.6 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
4.0 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
4.0 km
MIDDLESTOWN
MIDDLESTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW ROAD, MIDDLESTOWN, WAKEFIELD, WF4 4PA
ODS code B87001
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Rochester Drive
BCT · Horbury
- 0.1 miles
Benton Park
BCT · Horbury
- 0.1 miles
Benton Park
BCT · Horbury
- 0.2 miles
Elmwood Grove
BCT · Horbury
- 0.2 miles
Elmwood Grove
BCT · Horbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 031A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,819 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
2,316 published events cover 12 months, averaging 193 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,164 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.