Property market
The five-year median is £310,000 from 4 recorded sales in WF6 1WB. 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 1WB
Normanton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF6 1WB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2001
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF6
- Postcode sector
- WF6 1
- Latitude
- 53.694933
- Longitude
- -1.399250
- British National Grid easting
- 439,765
- British National Grid northing
- 422,220
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
- E00168749
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 013B · E01011812
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 013 · E02002450
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
33 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, St Andrews Place, Normanton, WF6 1WB | 12 June 2026 | £285,000 |
| 4, St Andrews Place, Normanton, WF6 1WB | 20 March 2026 | £290,000 |
| 2, St Andrews Place, Normanton, WF6 1WB | 12 January 2023 | £340,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 5
- 799 m
St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 859 m
Outwood Academy Freeston
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Normanton All Saints CofE Infant School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,797
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 690
- Public order 298
- Drugs 132
- Criminal damage and arson 132
- Shoplifting 131
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- WF6 1 residents
- 11,994
22 female, 24 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 0.4% 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
- 0%
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
10
within 5 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
1.5 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
1.7 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
2.5 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
3.1 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
3.6 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
4.1 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
4.4 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
4.6 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
4.6 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
4.7 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
- 0.2 miles
Normanton By-Pass
BCT · Normanton
- 0.2 miles
Normanton By-Pass
BCT · Normanton
- 0.3 miles
Western Gales Way
BCT · Normanton
- 0.3 miles
Newfield Crescent
BCT · Normanton
- 0.3 miles
Addison Avenue
BCT · Normanton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 013B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,553 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 3
- Low risk addresses
- 6
- 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
37 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 5 secondary schools. St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 799 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,797 published events cover 12 months, averaging 149.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 690 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.