Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 6 secondary schools. Hall Cliffe School is the nearest published school at 602 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF4 6EN
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF4 6EN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2024
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF4
- Postcode sector
- WF4 6
- Latitude
- 53.664061
- Longitude
- -1.566674
- British National Grid easting
- 428,731
- British National Grid northing
- 418,705
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
- E00059485
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 029E · E01011799
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 029 · E02002466
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
- 60
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 6
- 602 m
Hall Cliffe School
Other independent special school
- 739 m
St Ignatius Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 847 m
Horbury St Peter's and Clifton CofE (VC) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,214
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 597
- Public order 114
- Anti social behaviour 109
- Other theft 77
- Criminal damage and arson 75
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF4 6 residents
- 4,504
Age bands in WF4 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.3%
730 residents
400 residents
1,016 residents
1,201 residents
906 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
1.2 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
2.2 km
MIDDLESTOWN
MIDDLESTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW ROAD, MIDDLESTOWN, WAKEFIELD, WF4 4PA
ODS code B87001
2.7 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
3.0 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
3.8 km
THE PADDOCK SURGERY
CHAPEL LANE, THORNHILL, DEWSBURY, WF12 0DH
ODS code B85038
3.8 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
4.0 km
THORNHILL LEES MEDICAL CENTRE
140 SLAITHWAITE ROAD, THORNHILL LEES, DEWSBURY, WF12 9DW
ODS code B85606
4.3 km
SAVILE TOWN MEDICAL CTR.
SCARBOROUGH STREET, SAVILE TOWN, DEWSBURY, DEWSBURY, WF12 9AY
ODS code B85645
4.4 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
4.5 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
4.8 km
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Horbury Mews
BCT · Horbury
- 0.1 miles
Old Halfway House
BCT · Horbury
- 0.1 miles
Old Halfway House
BCT · Horbury
- 0.1 miles
Horbury Mews
BCT · Horbury
- 0.1 miles
Primrose Hall
BCT · Horbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 029E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,391 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
1,214 published events cover 12 months, averaging 101.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 597 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.