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 561 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF8 2NS
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF8 2NS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 May 2014
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 2
- Latitude
- 53.697193
- Longitude
- -1.303404
- British National Grid easting
- 446,091
- British National Grid northing
- 422,529
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
- E00179995
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 44
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 7
- 561 m
St Giles C of E Academy
Academy converter
- 787 m
Harewood Centre Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 978 m
Orchard Head Junior and Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,350
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,537
- Shoplifting 359
- Anti social behaviour 312
- Public order 260
- Criminal damage and arson 249
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
10
within 5 km straight-line
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
535 m
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
888 m
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
1.0 km
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
3.9 km
TIEVE TARA
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
4.0 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.1 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.3 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
4.3 km
CASTLEFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
4.6 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
SAVILE ROAD, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1PH
ODS code B87005
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Mill Dam Lane
BCT · Monkhill
- 0.0 miles
Mill Dam Lane
BCT · Monkhill
- 0.1 miles
Pontefract Castle C Monkhill Stn
BCT · Pontefract
- 0.1 miles
Pontefract Castle B Monkhill Stn
BCT · Pontefract
- 0.1 miles
Pontefract Monkhill Rail Station
RSE · Pontefract
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,350 published events cover 12 months, averaging 279.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,537 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.