Property market
The five-year median is £670,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF9 1AX. 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.
WF9 1AX
Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pontefract
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF9 1AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 1
- Latitude
- 53.632533
- Longitude
- -1.324249
- British National Grid easting
- 444,783
- British National Grid northing
- 415,322
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton · E05016524
- Parish or community
- E04000224
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059780
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 034F · E01011857
- 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 WF9
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Meadow Court, Badsworth Common, Badsworth, Pontefract, WF9 1AX | 27 January 2023 | £670,000 |
| Long Meadows, Badsworth Common, Badsworth, Pontefract, WF9 1AX | 22 October 2003 | £150,000 |
| Meadow View, Badsworth Common, Badsworth, Pontefract, WF9 1AX | 26 May 2000 | £60,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 918 m
Oakfield Park School
Community special school
- 1.3 km
Ackworth Mill Dam School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Outwood Primary Academy Bell Lane
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 226
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 102
- Criminal damage and arson 31
- Shoplifting 18
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Vehicle crime 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.6
- WF9 1 residents
- 7,189
9 female, 9 male
Age bands in WF9 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.3%
1,278 residents
755 residents
1,845 residents
2,096 residents
1,252 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF9 1 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+
- 42.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 42.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 42.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 42.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 85.7%
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
1.6 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
3.0 km
WHITE ROSE SURGERY
EXCHANGE STREET, SOUTH ELMSALL, PONTEFRACT, WF9 2RD
ODS code B87016
4.6 km
LANGTHWAITE SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, LANGTHWAITE RD, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87036
4.8 km
PARK GREEN SURGERY
LANGTHWAITE ROAD, LANGTHWAITE GRANGE IND ESTATE, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87006
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Brickyard Farm
BCT · Badsworth
- 0.1 miles
Brickyard Farm
BCT · Badsworth
- 0.6 miles
Barnsley Rd Camargue Orcheta
BCT · Ackworth Moor Top
- 0.6 miles
Barnsley Rd Camargue Orcheta
BCT · Ackworth Moor Top
- 0.6 miles
Doncaster Road Estate
BCT · Ackworth Moor Top
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 034F, 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
25,993 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
23 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Oakfield Park School is the nearest published school at 918 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
226 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 102 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.