Schools
75 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 6 secondary schools. Highfield School is the nearest published school at 917 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF5 9BB
Ossett · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF5 9BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF5
- Postcode sector
- WF5 9
- Latitude
- 53.698078
- Longitude
- -1.568264
- British National Grid easting
- 428,603
- British National Grid northing
- 422,489
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
- E00059644
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 021C · E01011825
- 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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Park Grange Farm, Gawthorpe Lane, Ossett, WF5 9BB | 9 April 2015 | £575,000 |
| Park Grange Farm, Gawthorpe Lane, Ossett, WF5 9BB | 23 July 1999 | £175,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 75
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 6
- 917 m
Highfield School
Foundation special school
- 1.2 km
Outwood Primary Academy Kirkhamgate
Academy sponsor led
- 1.5 km
Ossett Flushdyke Junior and Infant School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 370
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 176
- Vehicle crime 30
- Other theft 27
- Anti social behaviour 27
- Public order 26
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- WF5 9 residents
- 6,553
5 female, 5 male
Age bands in WF5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.8%
1,189 residents
655 residents
1,721 residents
1,701 residents
1,142 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF5 9 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
23
within 5 km
OSSETT SURGERY
OSSETT HEALTH VILLAGE, KINGSWAY, OSSETT, WF5 8DF
ODS code B87031
2.1 km
LOCALA CALDERDALE SAS
PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y02645
3.1 km
LOCALA KIRKLEES SAS
LOCALA SAS, PO BOX 227, LIVERSEDGE, WF17 1DR
ODS code Y00081
3.1 km
LEIGH VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEIGH VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE, BRADFORD ROAD, TINGLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 1RQ
ODS code B86064
3.5 km
ALVERTHORPE
BALNE LANE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 0DP
ODS code B87044
3.6 km
WINDSOR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 WILLIAM STREET, LEEDS ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF12 7BD
ODS code B85620
3.6 km
HOMESTEAD
HOMESTEAD MEDICAL CENTRE, HOMESTEAD DRIVE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 9PE
ODS code B87022
3.7 km
OUTWOOD PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
POTOVENS LANE, OUTWOOD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 2PE
ODS code B87013
4.0 km
GROVE HOUSE SURGERY
SOOTHILL LANE, BATLEY, WF17 5SS
ODS code B85018
4.0 km
LUPSET HEALTH CENTRE
GEORGE-A-GREEN COURT, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8FE
ODS code B87008
4.1 km
SAVILE TOWN MEDICAL CTR.
SCARBOROUGH STREET, SAVILE TOWN, DEWSBURY, DEWSBURY, WF12 9AY
ODS code B85645
4.2 km
NEW SOUTHGATE SURGERY
BUXTON PLACE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 3JQ
ODS code B87027
4.3 km
THE ALBION MOUNT MEDICAL PRACTICE
47 ALBION STREET, DEWSBURY, WF13 2AJ
ODS code B85646
4.3 km
ORCHARD CROFT
CLUNTERGATE, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, WF4 5BY
ODS code B87002
4.4 km
CALDER VIEW SURGERY
DEWSBURY HEALTH CENTRE, WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85004
4.5 km
EIGHTLANDS SURGERY
WELLINGTON ROAD, DEWSBURY, WF13 1HN
ODS code B85020
4.5 km
MOUNT PLEASANT MED CENTRE
69 PURLWELL LANE, MOUNT PLEASANT, BATLEY, WF17 7PF
ODS code B85041
4.7 km
SIDINGS HEALTHCARE CENTRE
SAVILLE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, THE SIDINGS, DEWSBURY, WF12 9QU
ODS code B85652
4.7 km
WELLINGTON HOUSE
WELLINGTON HOUSE SURGERY, HENRIETTA STREET, BATLEY, WF17 5DN
ODS code B85015
4.8 km
BROUGHTON HOUSE GP SURGERY
20 NEW WAY, BATLEY, WF17 5QT
ODS code Y07275
4.8 km
Showing 20 of 23 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
- 0.7 miles
Woodhouse Lane
BCT · Kirkhamgate
- 0.7 miles
Woodhouse Lane
BCT · Kirkhamgate
- 0.8 miles
Blind Lane
BCT · Kirkhamgate
- 0.8 miles
Blind Lane
BCT · Kirkhamgate
- 0.9 miles
Eldon Street
BCT · Flushdyke
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 021C, 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
24,283 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
370 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 176 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.