Property market
The five-year median is £422,500 from 4 recorded sales in WF5 0FA. 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.
WF5 0FA
Horbury & South Ossett · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ossett
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale
- Postcode district
- WF5
- Postcode sector
- WF5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF5 0FA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF5
- Postcode sector
- WF5 0
- Latitude
- 53.667474
- Longitude
- -1.570938
- British National Grid easting
- 428,447
- British National Grid northing
- 419,083
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
- E00059474
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 029D · E01011796
- 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 WF5
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Horbury View, Ossett, WF5 0FA | 6 March 2026 | £360,000 |
| 7, Horbury View, Ossett, WF5 0FA | 12 April 2024 | £460,000 |
| 6, Horbury View, Ossett, WF5 0FA | 23 September 2022 | £595,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 60
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 5
- 279 m
St Ignatius Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 399 m
South Ossett Infant Academy
Academy converter
- 482 m
Ossett Academy and Sixth Form College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,466
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 660
- Anti social behaviour 139
- Public order 130
- Other theft 95
- Criminal damage and arson 90
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- WF5 0 residents
- 9,070
9 female, 7 male
Age bands in WF5 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
1,428 residents
833 residents
2,004 residents
2,445 residents
2,351 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF5 0 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
- 41.7%
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
14
within 5 km
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
1.6 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
1.8 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
3.1 km
THE PADDOCK SURGERY
CHAPEL LANE, THORNHILL, DEWSBURY, WF12 0DH
ODS code B85038
3.6 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
3.8 km
THORNHILL LEES MEDICAL CENTRE
140 SLAITHWAITE ROAD, THORNHILL LEES, DEWSBURY, WF12 9DW
ODS code B85606
4.0 km
SAVILE TOWN MEDICAL CTR.
SCARBOROUGH STREET, SAVILE TOWN, DEWSBURY, DEWSBURY, WF12 9AY
ODS code B85645
4.0 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
4.0 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
4.4 km
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
4.5 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
4.9 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
4.9 km
CHAPELTHORPE
STANDBRIDGE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7GP
ODS code B87020
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Horbury Road Sowood Grange
BCT · Ossett
- 0.1 miles
Sowood Lane
BCT · Ossett Spa
- 0.1 miles
Sowood Lane
BCT · Ossett Spa
- 0.1 miles
Horbury Rd South Terrace
BCT · Ossett
- 0.3 miles
Old Halfway House
BCT · Horbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 029D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,168 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 3
- 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
60 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 5 secondary schools. St Ignatius Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 279 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,466 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 660 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.