Pontefract South · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Ackworth Howard Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School
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Carleton High School
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The Rookeries Carleton Junior and Infant School
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
709 residents
501 residents
985 residents
1,782 residents
1,728 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
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
2.8 km
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
3.0 km
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
3.7 km
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
3.7 km
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
3.7 km
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
4.2 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.
Doncaster Rd Darrington Road
BCT · East Hardwick
Doncaster Road Darrington Rd
BCT · East Hardwick
Doncaster Rd Whitegate Lane
BCT · East Hardwick
Hardwick Road Haverlands Farm
BCT · East Hardwick
Station Rd Brookfield Drive
BCT · Low Ackworth
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
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.
27 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ackworth Howard Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
30 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.