Schools
47 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 7 secondary schools. St Giles C of E Academy is the nearest published school at 791 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF8 1JS
Pontefract North · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Pontefract North
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF8 1JS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2005
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 1
- Latitude
- 53.701649
- Longitude
- -1.310949
- British National Grid easting
- 445,588
- British National Grid northing
- 423,020
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Pontefract North · E05016535
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley · E14001428
- Output area
- E00059724
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 015A · E01011834
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 015 · E02002452
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 WF8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 47
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 7
- 791 m
St Giles C of E Academy
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- 927 m
Orchard Head Junior and Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Pontefract
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,530
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,083
- Shoplifting 329
- Anti social behaviour 230
- Public order 206
- Criminal damage and arson 183
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF8 1 residents
- 5,134
Age bands in WF8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.2%
822 residents
553 residents
1,572 residents
1,442 residents
787 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
859 m
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
956 m
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
1.5 km
TIEVE TARA
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
3.5 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
3.6 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
3.9 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
3.9 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.2 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
4.3 km
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Lady Balk Lane Victoria St
BCT · Monkhill
- 0.1 miles
Monkhill Avenue
BCT · Monkhill
- 0.1 miles
Monkhill Avenue
BCT · Monkhill
- 0.1 miles
De Lacy Way
BCT · Monkhill
- 0.1 miles
De Lacy Way
BCT · Monkhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 015A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,843 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
2,530 published events cover 12 months, averaging 210.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,083 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.