Pontefract North · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Holy Family and St Michael's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
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Cherry Tree Academy
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Orchard Head Junior and Infant and Nursery School
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
25 female, 15 male
3,164 residents
1,654 residents
4,430 residents
4,238 residents
2,671 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% 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.
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
1.2 km
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
1.5 km
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
1.6 km
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
3.2 km
TIEVE TARA MEDICAL CENTRE, PARKDALE, AIREDALE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 2QP
ODS code B87042
4.0 km
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
4.8 km
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.8 km
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.9 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.
Cobbler's Lane Bexhill Close
BCT · Nevison
Cobblers Lane
BCT · Monkhill
Cobblers Ln Stella Gardens
BCT · Nevison
Cobblers Lane
BCT · Monkhill
Bondgate
BCT · Monkhill
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 012A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,038 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.
40 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 7 secondary schools. Holy Family and St Michael's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is the nearest published school at 654 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
2,844 published events cover 12 months, averaging 237 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,305 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.