Property market
The five-year median is £170,000 from 2 recorded sales in WF8 3EF. 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 3EF
Pontefract South · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pontefract
- Ward
- Pontefract South
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF8 3EF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 3
- Latitude
- 53.649049
- Longitude
- -1.295272
- British National Grid easting
- 446,681
- British National Grid northing
- 417,178
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
- E04013426
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059341
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 034A · E01011767
- 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
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Huntsmans Lodge, Rigg Lane, East Hardwick, Pontefract, WF8 3EF | 18 July 2023 | £10,000 |
| Low Grange Farm Cottages, 2, Rigg Lane, East Hardwick, Pontefract, WF8 3EF | 21 April 2023 | £330,000 |
| Low Grange Farm, Rigg Lane, East Hardwick, Pontefract, WF8 3EF | 29 May 2019 | £495,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.8 km
Ackworth Howard Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.2 km
Badsworth Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.5 km
Ackworth Mill Dam School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 32
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Other theft 5
- Burglary 4
- Vehicle crime 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- WF8 3 residents
- 6,137
9 female, 9 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 0.3% 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+
- 90.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 90.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 90.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 90.9%
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
2.8 km
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
4.4 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Doncaster Rd Rigg Lane
BCT · East Hardwick
- 0.3 miles
Doncaster Road Mayfield Farm
BCT · East Hardwick
- 0.3 miles
Mayfield Farm
BCT · East Hardwick
- 0.6 miles
Doncaster Rd Whitegate Lane
BCT · East Hardwick
- 0.9 miles
Thorpe Ln Hall Garth Road
BCT · Thorpe Audlin
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 034A, 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
26,353 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
22 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ackworth Howard Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
32 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 11 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.