Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 6 secondary schools. The King's School is the nearest published school at 189 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF8 4HP
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF8 4HP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1988
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF8
- Postcode sector
- WF8 4
- Latitude
- 53.686216
- Longitude
- -1.315563
- British National Grid easting
- 445,300
- British National Grid northing
- 421,300
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
- E00059735
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 023E · E01011851
- 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
- 42
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 6
- 189 m
The King's School
Academy converter
- 548 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Pontefract
Academy converter
- 582 m
Larks Hill Junior and Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,926
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,283
- Shoplifting 360
- Anti social behaviour 276
- Public order 244
- Criminal damage and arson 218
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF8 4 residents
- 8,550
Age bands in WF8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
1,495 residents
809 residents
2,264 residents
2,409 residents
2,057 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
FRIARWOOD SURGERY
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
598 m
STUART ROAD
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
805 m
NORTHGATE SURGERY
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
954 m
STATION LANE
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
2.9 km
ST THOMAS ROAD SURGERY
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
3.0 km
HENRY MOORE CLINIC
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
4.6 km
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Westbourne Rd Mill Hill Lane
BCT · Pontefract
- 0.1 miles
Mill Hill Road
BCT · Pontefract
- 0.1 miles
Westbourne Rd Mill Hill Lane
BCT · Pontefract
- 0.1 miles
Mill Hill Lane Kings High School
BCT · Pontefract
- 0.2 miles
Hardwick Court
BCT · Pontefract
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 023E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,557 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
2,926 published events cover 12 months, averaging 243.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,283 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.