Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. Altofts Junior Academy is the nearest published school at 634 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF6 2GR
Altofts & Whitwood · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 2GR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF6
- Postcode sector
- WF6 2
- Latitude
- 53.707349
- Longitude
- -1.421781
- British National Grid easting
- 438,266
- British National Grid northing
- 423,589
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
- E00059918
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 634 m
Altofts Junior Academy
Academy converter
- 712 m
Martin Frobisher Infant School
Community school
- 809 m
Lee Brigg Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,426
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 640
- Public order 123
- Anti social behaviour 114
- Shoplifting 107
- Criminal damage and arson 106
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.
GP practices
9
within 5 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
758 m
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
879 m
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
1.4 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
3.7 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
3.8 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
4.1 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
4.7 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
4.7 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
4.8 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
- 0.3 miles
Altofts Hall Road
BCT · Altofts
- 0.3 miles
Altofts Hall Road
BCT · Altofts
- 0.3 miles
Altofts School
BCT · Normanton
- 0.3 miles
St Mary Magdelene Church
BCT · Altofts
- 0.3 miles
Altofts School
BCT · Normanton
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,426 published events cover 12 months, averaging 118.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 640 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.