Property market
The five-year median is £258,995 from 10 recorded sales in WF7 5QA. 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.
WF7 5QA
Featherstone · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pontefract
- Ward
- Featherstone
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF7
- Postcode sector
- WF7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF7 5QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2022
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF7
- Postcode sector
- WF7 5
- Latitude
- 53.677240
- Longitude
- -1.353313
- British National Grid easting
- 442,816
- British National Grid northing
- 420,278
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Featherstone · E05016529
- Parish or community
- E04013427
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059382
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 027C · E01011781
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 027 · E02002464
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 WF7
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Fox Close, Featherstone, Pontefract, WF7 5QA | 13 September 2024 | £280,000 |
| 10, Fox Close, Featherstone, Pontefract, WF7 5QA | 28 October 2022 | £274,995 |
| 12, Fox Close, Featherstone, Pontefract, WF7 5QA | 28 October 2022 | £299,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 5
- 474 m
Featherstone Purston St Thomas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
- 496 m
Featherstone Purston Infant School
Community school
- 756 m
The Featherstone Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,317
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 652
- Criminal damage and arson 106
- Public order 100
- Anti social behaviour 100
- Shoplifting 97
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF7 5 residents
- 8,047
Age bands in WF7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.9%
1,529 residents
837 residents
2,313 residents
1,985 residents
1,351 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+
- 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
- 9.1%
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
7
within 5 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
312 m
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
561 m
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
3.1 km
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
3.3 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
3.4 km
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
3.8 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
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
- 0.2 miles
Ackworth Road Jct
BCT · Featherstone
- 0.2 miles
Crossley Street
BCT · Featherstone
- 0.2 miles
Ackworth Road Jct
BCT · Featherstone
- 0.2 miles
Featherstone Station
BCT · Featherstone
- 0.2 miles
Featherstone Station
BCT · Featherstone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 027C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,449 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
39 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 5 secondary schools. Featherstone Purston St Thomas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School is the nearest published school at 474 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,317 published events cover 12 months, averaging 109.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 652 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.