Property market
The five-year median is £160,000 from 3 recorded sales in WF6 2HY. 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 2HY
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 2HY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2004
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF6
- Postcode sector
- WF6 2
- Latitude
- 53.710109
- Longitude
- -1.431348
- British National Grid easting
- 437,632
- British National Grid northing
- 423,891
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
- E00059916
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 009A · E01011874
- 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
43 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Rose Farm Meadows, Normanton, WF6 2HY | 3 May 2024 | £250,000 |
| 32, Rose Farm Meadows, Normanton, WF6 2HY | 4 August 2023 | £160,000 |
| 26, Rose Farm Meadows, Normanton, WF6 2HY | 29 April 2022 | £88,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 4
- 212 m
Martin Frobisher Infant School
Community school
- 595 m
Lee Brigg Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 878 m
Altofts Junior Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 817
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 344
- Shoplifting 104
- Public order 68
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Criminal damage and arson 62
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 57
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- WF6 2 residents
- 10,425
25 female, 32 male
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
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF6 2 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
- 65.2%
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
PATIENCE LANE SURGERY
PATIENCE LANE, ALTOFTS, NORMANTON, WF6 2JZ
ODS code B87602
717 m
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
1.3 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
1.7 km
STANLEY
STANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, LAKE LOCK ROAD, STANLEY, WAKEFIELD, WF3 4HS
ODS code B87019
3.0 km
EASTMOOR HEALTH CENTRE
WINDHILL ROAD, EASTMOOR, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4SD
ODS code B87604
3.7 km
HEALTH CARE FIRST PARTNERSHIP
PINFOLD SURGERY, PINFOLD LANE, MICKLETOWN METHLEY, LEEDS, LS26 9AA
ODS code B87030
3.9 km
LOFTHOUSE SURGERY
2 CHURCH FARM CLOSE, LEEDS ROAD, LOFTHOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF3 3SA
ODS code B86020
4.7 km
OULTON MEDICAL CENTRE
QUARRY HILL, OULTON, LEEDS, LS26 8SZ
ODS code B86006
4.9 km
WARRENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
78 UPPER WARRENGATE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4PR
ODS code B87004
5.0 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
St Mary Magadelene Church
BCT · Altofts
- 0.1 miles
St Mary Magdelene Church
BCT · Altofts
- 0.2 miles
Altofts Cemetery
BCT · Altofts
- 0.2 miles
Altofts Hall Road
BCT · Altofts
- 0.2 miles
Altofts Cemetery
BCT · Altofts
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 009A, 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
26,730 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 4 secondary schools. Martin Frobisher Infant School is the nearest published school at 212 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
817 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 344 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.