Property market
The five-year median is £1,440,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF6 2AE. 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 2AE
Altofts & Whitwood · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Normanton
- Ward
- Altofts & Whitwood
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Postcode district
- WF6
- Postcode sector
- WF6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF6 2AE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2004
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF6
- Postcode sector
- WF6 2
- Latitude
- 53.718276
- Longitude
- -1.413767
- British National Grid easting
- 438,785
- British National Grid northing
- 424,809
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Altofts & Whitwood · E05016526
- Parish or community
- E04013429
- Westminster constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley · E14001428
- Output area
- E00059929
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 009D · E01011883
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 009 · E02002446
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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Tuscany Court, Unit 2-3, Express Way, Normanton, WF6 2AE | 30 March 2026 | £1,440,000 |
| Asda Wakefield (normanton) Asc, Express Way, Normanton, WF6 2AE | 23 June 2021 | £18,855,950 |
| Asda Wakefield Cdc 1, Express Way, Normanton, WF6 2AE | 23 June 2021 | £67,500,621 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.5 km
Normanton Common Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Martin Frobisher Infant School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Altofts Junior Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 326
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 137
- Anti social behaviour 45
- Vehicle crime 28
- Other theft 24
- Other crime 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF6 2 residents
- 10,425
Age bands in WF6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.3%
1,498 residents
970 residents
2,659 residents
2,992 residents
2,194 residents
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+
- 12.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 12.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 12.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 12.5%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 12.5%
- 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
2.0 km
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
2.1 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
2.5 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
2.7 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
3.8 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
3.9 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
3.9 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
4.2 km
NOVA SCOTIA MEDICAL CNTR
22A LEEDS ROAD, ALLERTON BYWATER, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2DP
ODS code B86089
4.2 km
OULTON MEDICAL CENTRE
QUARRY HILL, OULTON, LEEDS, LS26 8SZ
ODS code B86006
4.5 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
Express Way Tuscany Wy
BCT · Altofts
- 0.1 miles
Express Way Tuscany Wy
BCT · Altofts
- 0.2 miles
Tuscany Wy Express Way
BCT · Altofts
- 0.2 miles
Express Wy Tuscany Way
BCT · Altofts
- 0.2 miles
Tuscany Wy Express Way
BCT · Altofts
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 009D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,717 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 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
33 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Normanton Common Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
326 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 137 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.