Property market
The five-year median is £332,500 from 4 recorded sales in WF7 7RD. 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 7RD
Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pontefract
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF7
- Postcode sector
- WF7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF7 7RD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF7
- Postcode sector
- WF7 7
- Latitude
- 53.637965
- Longitude
- -1.336187
- British National Grid easting
- 443,988
- British National Grid northing
- 415,919
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
- E00059340
- 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
Property
47 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Stratus Close, Ackworth, Pontefract, WF7 7RD | 5 June 2024 | £250,000 |
| 19, Stratus Close, Ackworth, Pontefract, WF7 7RD | 5 June 2024 | £352,000 |
| 1, Stratus Close, Ackworth, Pontefract, WF7 7RD | 19 April 2024 | £350,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 4
- 115 m
Oakfield Park School
Community special school
- 608 m
Outwood Primary Academy Bell Lane
Academy converter
- 662 m
Ackworth Mill Dam School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 383
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 173
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Other theft 30
- Public order 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 57
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- WF7 7 residents
- 8,058
26 female, 31 male
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
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF7 7 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
- 100%
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
3
within 5 km
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
737 m
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
3.1 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.3 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Barnsley Rd Camargue Orcheta
BCT · Ackworth Moor Top
- 0.0 miles
Barnsley Rd Camargue Orcheta
BCT · Ackworth Moor Top
- 0.1 miles
Barnsley Road Orchard Dr
BCT · Ackworth Moor Top
- 0.2 miles
Barnsley Road Orchard Dr
BCT · Ackworth Moor Top
- 0.2 miles
Beverley Arms Doncaster Road
BCT · Ackworth
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.
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
- 1
- 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
22 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. Oakfield Park School is the nearest published school at 115 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
383 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 173 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.