Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Carleton High School is the nearest published school at 659 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF8 3WB
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF8 3WB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 2004
- Terminated
- 1 May 2005
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 3
- Latitude
- 53.675172
- Longitude
- -1.311307
- British National Grid easting
- 445,593
- British National Grid northing
- 420,074
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
- E00180042
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 023A · E01011845
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 023 · E02002460
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
- 30
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 659 m
Carleton High School
Academy converter
- 665 m
Carleton Park Junior and Infant School
Academy sponsor led
- 956 m
Larks Hill Junior and Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 862
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 440
- Anti social behaviour 97
- Public order 63
- Criminal damage and arson 61
- Other theft 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF8 3 residents
- 6,137
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
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
1.5 km
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
2.1 km
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
2.1 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
3.0 km
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
3.2 km
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hardwick Road Railway Bridge
BCT · Carleton
- 0.1 miles
Hardwick Road Brookdale Ave
BCT · Carleton
- 0.1 miles
Hardwick Rd Lynwood Crescent
BCT · Carleton
- 0.2 miles
Hardwick Road Went Dale Rd
BCT · Carleton
- 0.2 miles
Hardwick Rd Hardwick Cres
BCT · Carleton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 023A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,311 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
862 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 440 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.