Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Oakfield Park School is the nearest published school at 322 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF7 7DY
Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF7
- Postcode sector
- WF7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF7 7DY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2018
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF7
- Postcode sector
- WF7 7
- Latitude
- 53.639672
- Longitude
- -1.337597
- British National Grid easting
- 443,893
- British National Grid northing
- 416,108
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton · E05016524
- Parish or community
- E04013421
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059337
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 034D · E01011770
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 034 · E02002471
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 322 m
Oakfield Park School
Community special school
- 399 m
Outwood Primary Academy Bell Lane
Academy converter
- 564 m
Ackworth Mill Dam School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 385
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 174
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Anti social behaviour 32
- Other theft 31
- Public order 26
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF7 7 residents
- 8,058
Age bands in WF7 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
1,365 residents
706 residents
2,076 residents
2,226 residents
1,567 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
554 m
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
3.3 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.1 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Barnsley Road Orchard Dr
BCT · Ackworth Moor Top
- 0.1 miles
Barnsley Road Orchard Dr
BCT · Ackworth Moor Top
- 0.1 miles
Beverley Arms Doncaster Road
BCT · Ackworth
- 0.1 miles
Beverley Arms Doncaster Road
BCT · Ackworth
- 0.1 miles
Beverley Arms
BCT · Ackworth Moor Top
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 034D, 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
16,039 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
385 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 174 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.