Schools
44 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 7 secondary schools. St Giles C of E Academy is the nearest published school at 549 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF8 2JA
Pontefract North · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pontefract
- Ward
- Pontefract North
- 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 2JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 2
- Latitude
- 53.695993
- Longitude
- -1.302682
- British National Grid easting
- 446,140
- British National Grid northing
- 422,396
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
- E00180075
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 015C · E01011838
- 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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Beech Hill, Pontefract, WF8 2JA | 15 July 2015 | £73,095 |
| 2, Beech Hill, Pontefract, WF8 2JA | 17 September 1997 | £44,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 44
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 7
- 549 m
St Giles C of E Academy
Academy converter
- 647 m
Harewood Centre Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 942 m
Holy Family and St Michael's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,422
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,582
- Shoplifting 359
- Anti social behaviour 314
- Public order 264
- Criminal damage and arson 251
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- WF8 2 residents
- 16,263
3 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF8 2 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
- 0%
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
9
within 5 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
499 m
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
879 m
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
910 m
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
3.9 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.0 km
TIEVE TARA
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
4.2 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.2 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
4.4 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
4.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Pontefract Castle C Monkhill Stn
BCT · Pontefract
- 0.1 miles
South Baileygate
BCT · Pontefract
- 0.1 miles
Pontefract Castle B Monkhill Stn
BCT · Pontefract
- 0.1 miles
South Baileygate
BCT · Pontefract
- 0.1 miles
Mill Dam Lane
BCT · Monkhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 015C, 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
2,926 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
3,422 published events cover 12 months, averaging 285.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,582 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.