Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Upton Primary School is the nearest published school at 962 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF9 1NJ
Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF9 1NJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 April 2018
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 1
- Latitude
- 53.616367
- Longitude
- -1.286353
- British National Grid easting
- 447,307
- British National Grid northing
- 413,548
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
- E04013434
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059819
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 041B · E01011855
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 041 · E02002478
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 962 m
Upton Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
Minsthorpe Community College
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Badsworth Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 416
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 185
- Anti social behaviour 55
- Criminal damage and arson 40
- Other theft 24
- Vehicle crime 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF9 1 residents
- 7,189
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
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
WHITE ROSE SURGERY
EXCHANGE STREET, SOUTH ELMSALL, PONTEFRACT, WF9 2RD
ODS code B87016
2.4 km
LANGTHWAITE SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, LANGTHWAITE RD, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87036
3.3 km
PARK GREEN SURGERY
LANGTHWAITE ROAD, LANGTHWAITE GRANGE IND ESTATE, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87006
3.3 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
4.5 km
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Second Avenue
BCT · Upton
- 0.1 miles
Second Avenue
BCT · Upton
- 0.1 miles
Rose Avenue
BCT · Upton
- 0.1 miles
Rose Ave Sunny Avenue
BCT · Upton
- 0.1 miles
First Avenue
BCT · Upton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 041B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,580 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
416 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 185 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.