Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 6 secondary schools. High Well School is the nearest published school at 230 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF8 2TW
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 2TW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2005
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 2
- Latitude
- 53.687559
- Longitude
- -1.288375
- British National Grid easting
- 447,094
- British National Grid northing
- 421,467
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
- E00059768
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 018C · E01011852
- 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
- 37
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 6
- 230 m
High Well School
Community special school
- 347 m
De Lacy Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 526 m
Cherry Tree Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,178
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,016
- Shoplifting 215
- Anti social behaviour 212
- Criminal damage and arson 172
- Public order 160
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
1.2 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
1.6 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
1.9 km
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
3.4 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.7 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Eastbourne Crescent
BCT · Eastbourne
- 0.1 miles
Eastbourne Terrace
BCT · Eastbourne
- 0.2 miles
Eastbourne Terrace
BCT · Eastbourne
- 0.2 miles
De Lacy School
BCT · Chequerfield
- 0.2 miles
Chequerfield Lane
BCT · Willow Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 018C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,042 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
2,178 published events cover 12 months, averaging 181.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,016 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.