Pontefract North · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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Halfpenny Lane Junior Infant and Nursery School
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Census 2021
23 female, 11 male
1,495 residents
809 residents
2,264 residents
2,409 residents
2,057 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF8 4 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.
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
THE SURGERY, STUART ROAD, PONTEFRACT, WF8 4PQ
ODS code B87015
1.1 km
CARLETON GLEN, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1SU
ODS code B87011
1.3 km
NORTHGATE, PONTEFRACT, WF8 1NF
ODS code B87007
1.5 km
STATION LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION LANE, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 6JL
ODS code B87032
2.2 km
ST. THOMAS ROAD, FEATHERSTONE, PONTEFRACT, WF7 5HE
ODS code B87009
2.3 km
26 SMAWTHORNE LANE, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4EN
ODS code B87018
4.3 km
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
4.6 km
WELBECK STREET, CASTLEFORD, WF10 1DP
ODS code B87025
4.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Pontefract Barracks
BCT · Pontefract
Pontefract Barracks
BCT · Pontefract
Minden Close Halfpenny Lane
BCT · Pontefract
Minden Close Halfpenny Lane
BCT · Pontefract
Kings Mead
BCT · Pontefract
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 015E, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,648 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.
43 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 6 secondary schools. Halfpenny Lane Junior Infant and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 442 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,971 published events cover 12 months, averaging 164.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 822 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.