Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. De Lacy Primary School is the nearest published school at 514 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF8 2AX
Pontefract South · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Pontefract South
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF8 2AX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 2
- Latitude
- 53.685221
- Longitude
- -1.298923
- British National Grid easting
- 446,400
- British National Grid northing
- 421,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Pontefract South · E05016536
- Parish or community
- E43000299
- Westminster constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley · E14001428
- Output area
- E00059740
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 018B · E01011850
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 018 · E02002455
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
- 41
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 6
- 514 m
De Lacy Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 523 m
High Well School
Community special school
- 655 m
Harewood Centre Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,963
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,333
- Shoplifting 325
- Anti social behaviour 281
- Public order 229
- Criminal damage and arson 223
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF8 2 residents
- 16,263
Age bands in WF8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.5%
3,164 residents
1,654 residents
4,430 residents
4,238 residents
2,671 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
644 m
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
1.2 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
1.4 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
3.9 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.0 km
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Chequerfield Circle
BCT · Chequerfield
- 0.0 miles
Holy Family Church
BCT · Chequerfield
- 0.1 miles
East Drive
BCT · Chequerfield
- 0.1 miles
Monument Lane
BCT · Chequerfield
- 0.1 miles
Monument Lane
BCT · Chequerfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 018B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,257 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
2,963 published events cover 12 months, averaging 246.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,333 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.