Property market
The five-year median is £142,500 from 6 recorded sales in WF7 6AD. 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 6AD
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF7 6AD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF7
- Postcode sector
- WF7 6
- Latitude
- 53.687717
- Longitude
- -1.354455
- British National Grid easting
- 442,730
- British National Grid northing
- 421,443
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
- E00059416
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 024C · E01011777
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 024 · E02002461
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
32 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 196, Featherstone Lane, Featherstone, Pontefract, WF7 6AD | 10 April 2026 | £233,000 |
| 158, Featherstone Lane, Featherstone, Pontefract, WF7 6AD | 30 September 2025 | £145,000 |
| 156, Featherstone Lane, Featherstone, Pontefract, WF7 6AD | 12 May 2023 | £140,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 7
- 383 m
Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School
Community school
- 763 m
Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
St Wilfrid's Catholic High School & Sixth Form College: A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 861
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 431
- Criminal damage and arson 73
- Public order 63
- Anti social behaviour 63
- Other theft 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 35
- Postcode households
- 20
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- WF7 6 residents
- 6,554
14 female, 21 male
Age bands in WF7 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 21%
1,089 residents
690 residents
1,615 residents
1,860 residents
1,395 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF7 6 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
- 15.4%
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
11
within 5 km straight-line
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
780 m
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
1.4 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
2.7 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
3.1 km
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
3.1 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
3.7 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
4.1 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
4.5 km
KING'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
4.5 km
NEWLAND SURGERY
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
4.7 km
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Carlton Street
BCT · North Featherstone
- 0.1 miles
Carlton Street
BCT · North Featherstone
- 0.2 miles
Featherstone Drive
BCT · Featherstone
- 0.2 miles
Featherstone Drive
BCT · Featherstone
- 0.2 miles
Highfield Close
BCT · North Featherstone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 024C, 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
8,617 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 8
- 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
46 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 7 secondary schools. Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School is the nearest published school at 383 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
861 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 431 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.