Property market
The five-year median is £415,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF8 3AF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wakefield is £198,519 in June 2026, up 4.8% year on year.
WF8 3AF
Pontefract South · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pontefract
- Ward
- Pontefract South
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF8 3AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 3
- Latitude
- 53.676917
- Longitude
- -1.271872
- British National Grid easting
- 448,196
- British National Grid northing
- 420,294
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
- E04013425
- Westminster constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley · E14001428
- Output area
- E00059775
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 034E · E01011849
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 034 · E02002471
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
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Elm Close, Darrington, Pontefract, WF8 3AF | 5 August 2024 | £415,000 |
| 8, Elm Close, Darrington, Pontefract, WF8 3AF | 2 February 2016 | £285,000 |
| 9, Elm Close, Darrington, Pontefract, WF8 3AF | 2 May 2012 | £278,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 308 m
Darrington Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
High Well School
Community special school
- 1.7 km
The Rookeries Carleton Junior and Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 141
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 47
- Vehicle crime 36
- Burglary 16
- Other theft 8
- Anti social behaviour 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- WF8 3 residents
- 6,137
10 female, 12 male
Age bands in WF8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.3%
709 residents
501 residents
985 residents
1,782 residents
1,728 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF8 3 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
- 55.6%
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
4
within 5 km
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
2.7 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
3.1 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
3.4 km
ASH GROVE
ASH GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, ENGLAND LANE, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 0JA
ODS code B87021
3.6 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
West End Farm Escourt Road
BCT · Darrington
- 0.1 miles
Estcourt Rd Sotheron Croft
BCT · Darrington
- 0.1 miles
West End Farm Escourt Road
BCT · Darrington
- 0.1 miles
Estcourt Rd Sotheron Croft
BCT · Darrington
- 0.3 miles
Estcourt Rd Thorntree Close
BCT · Darrington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 034E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,856 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. Darrington Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 308 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
141 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 47 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.