Property market
The five-year median is £145,750 from 4 recorded sales in WF6 1LD. 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.
WF6 1LD
Normanton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF6 1LD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF6
- Postcode sector
- WF6 1
- Latitude
- 53.687570
- Longitude
- -1.417207
- British National Grid easting
- 438,586
- British National Grid northing
- 421,391
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Normanton · E05016533
- Parish or community
- E04013429
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059583
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 016D · E01011816
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 016 · E02002453
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 WF6
Property
23 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 53, Hawthorne Mount, Normanton, WF6 1LD | 28 March 2025 | £151,500 |
| 43, Hawthorne Mount, Normanton, WF6 1LD | 27 March 2025 | £178,000 |
| 55, Hawthorne Mount, Normanton, WF6 1LD | 2 August 2024 | £140,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 4
- 588 m
Newlands Primary School
Community school
- 875 m
Outwood Academy Freeston
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Normanton Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,451
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 732
- Shoplifting 129
- Public order 115
- Criminal damage and arson 110
- Anti social behaviour 86
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 89
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- WF6 1 residents
- 11,994
43 female, 46 male
Age bands in WF6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 16%
2,217 residents
1,281 residents
3,239 residents
3,392 residents
1,934 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF6 1 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
- 86.2%
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
9
within 5 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
965 m
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
1.5 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
2.1 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
3.5 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
3.9 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
4.0 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.3 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
4.9 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
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
Queen Elizabeth Dr Greenwood Close
BCT · Normanton
- 0.1 miles
Greenwood Close
BCT · Normanton
- 0.1 miles
Hill Top View
BCT · Normanton
- 0.2 miles
Walnut Drive
BCT · Normanton
- 0.2 miles
Henderson Avenue
BCT · Normanton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 016D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,276 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 5
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
36 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 4 secondary schools. Newlands Primary School is the nearest published school at 588 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,451 published events cover 12 months, averaging 120.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 732 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.