Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. Ackworth School is the nearest published school at 522 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF7 7QX
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 7QX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF7
- Postcode sector
- WF7 7
- Latitude
- 53.653048
- Longitude
- -1.331230
- British National Grid easting
- 444,300
- British National Grid northing
- 417,600
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
- E00059343
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 034A · E01011767
- 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
- 31
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 522 m
Ackworth School
Other independent school
- 679 m
Ackworth Howard Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.1 km
Ackworth Mill Dam School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 313
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 138
- Criminal damage and arson 33
- Public order 26
- Anti social behaviour 23
- Shoplifting 18
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
7
within 5 km straight-line
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
999 m
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
2.9 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
3.6 km
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
4.2 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
4.6 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
4.8 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Mill Hill
BCT · High Ackworth
- 0.2 miles
Mill Hill
BCT · High Ackworth
- 0.2 miles
Quaker School
BCT · Low Ackworth
- 0.2 miles
Ackworth School
BCT · High Ackworth
- 0.2 miles
Ackworth School
BCT · High Ackworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 034A, 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
26,353 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
313 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 138 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.