Pontefract North · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Harewood Centre Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Holy Family and St Michael's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Cherry Tree Academy
Academy sponsor led
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
688 m
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
892 m
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
1.1 km
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
3.7 km
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.2 km
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
4.3 km
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.4 km
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
4.7 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.
Pontefract Aldi
BCT · Pontefract
South Baileygate
BCT · Pontefract
Baghill Lane Industrial Estate
BCT · Pontefract
Northfield Drive Springfield Ave
BCT · Willow Park
South Baileygate
BCT · Pontefract
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 012B, 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
14,483 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
44 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 7 secondary schools. Harewood Centre Nursery School is the nearest published school at 418 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
3,404 published events cover 12 months, averaging 283.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,562 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.