Featherstone · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Featherstone Purston St Thomas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School
Community school
Featherstone Purston Infant School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
14 female, 14 male
1,089 residents
690 residents
1,615 residents
1,860 residents
1,395 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
10
within 5 km
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
110 m
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
609 m
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
3.2 km
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
3.5 km
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
3.6 km
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
4.2 km
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
4.5 km
KING EDWARD STREET, NORMANTON, WF6 2AZ
ODS code B87039
4.6 km
NEWLAND LANE, NORMANTON, WF6 1QD
ODS code B87033
4.7 km
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
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.
Featherstone Memorial Gardens
BCT · Featherstone
Featherstone Memorial Gardens
BCT · Featherstone
Featherstone Rail Station
RSE · Featherstone
Featherstone Rail Station
RLY · Featherstone
Featherstone Rail Station
RSE · Featherstone
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
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.
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.
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.
41 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 5 secondary schools. Featherstone Purston St Thomas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School is the nearest published school at 562 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,361 published events cover 12 months, averaging 113.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 669 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.