Property market
The five-year median is £262,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF5 8ED. 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 8ED
Ossett · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF5 8ED
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF5
- Postcode sector
- WF5 8
- Latitude
- 53.688713
- Longitude
- -1.589226
- British National Grid easting
- 427,225
- British National Grid northing
- 421,439
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Ossett · E05016534
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale · E14001418
- Output area
- E00059647
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 021D · E01011826
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 021 · E02002458
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
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 256, Kingsway, Ossett, WF5 8ED | 15 September 2025 | £262,000 |
| 199, Kingsway, Ossett, WF5 8ED | 24 May 2018 | £495,000 |
| 256, Kingsway, Ossett, WF5 8ED | 2 February 2018 | £262,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 80
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 8
- 610 m
Gawthorpe Community Academy
Academy converter
- 794 m
Orchard Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 869 m
Ossett Holy Trinity CofE VA Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,006
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 955
- Anti social behaviour 210
- Criminal damage and arson 157
- Public order 139
- Vehicle crime 120
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 36
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- WF5 8 residents
- 6,272
20 female, 16 male
Age bands in WF5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
1,048 residents
635 residents
1,430 residents
1,840 residents
1,436 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF5 8 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
- 66.7%
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
26
within 5 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
900 m
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
2.3 km
SAVILE TOWN MEDICAL CTR.
SCARBOROUGH STREET, SAVILE TOWN, DEWSBURY, DEWSBURY, WF12 9AY
ODS code B85645
2.5 km
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
2.6 km
LOCALA KIRKLEES SAS
LOCALA SAS, PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y00081
2.6 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
3.0 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
3.0 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
3.0 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
3.0 km
THORNHILL LEES MEDICAL CENTRE
140 SLAITHWAITE ROAD, THORNHILL LEES, DEWSBURY, WF12 9DW
ODS code B85606
3.2 km
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
3.5 km
THE PADDOCK SURGERY
CHAPEL LANE, THORNHILL, DEWSBURY, WF12 0DH
ODS code B85038
3.6 km
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
3.8 km
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
4.1 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
4.2 km
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
4.2 km
CHERRY TREE SURGERY
132 UPPER COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DH
ODS code B85655
4.3 km
BATLEY HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, 130 COMMERCIAL STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5ED
ODS code B85008
4.3 km
MIDDLESTOWN
MIDDLESTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW ROAD, MIDDLESTOWN, WAKEFIELD, WF4 4PA
ODS code B87001
4.3 km
HEALDS ROAD SURGERY
HEALDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 4HT
ODS code B85055
4.3 km
Showing 20 of 26 matching practices.
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
Deneside
BCT · Ossett
- 0.1 miles
Deneside
BCT · Ossett
- 0.1 miles
Kingsway Gardens
BCT · Ossett
- 0.2 miles
Kingsway Gardens
BCT · Ossett
- 0.2 miles
Kingsway
BCT · Ossett
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 021D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,748 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
80 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 8 secondary schools. Gawthorpe Community Academy is the nearest published school at 610 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,006 published events cover 12 months, averaging 167.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 955 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.