South Elmsall & South Kirkby · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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Census 2021
3 female, 5 male
1,931 residents
1,229 residents
2,842 residents
2,986 residents
2,198 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF9 2 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 straight-line
CHURCH VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, LANGTHWAITE RD, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87036
930 m
LANGTHWAITE ROAD, LANGTHWAITE GRANGE IND ESTATE, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87006
930 m
EXCHANGE STREET, SOUTH ELMSALL, PONTEFRACT, WF9 2RD
ODS code B87016
2.0 km
THE THURNSCOE LIFT BUILDING, HOLLY BUSH DRIVE, THURNSCOE, ROTHERHAM, S63 0LU
ODS code Y00411
3.9 km
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
4.2 km
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
4.4 km
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
4.4 km
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
4.4 km
Lime Crescent
BCT · South Elmsall
Stockingate Mayfields Way
BCT · South Kirkby
Vickers Avenue
BCT · South Elmsall
Stockingate Mayfields Way
BCT · South Kirkby
Stockingate Park Estate
BCT · South Kirkby
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 045B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,947 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.
22 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. South Kirkby Academy is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,093 published events cover 12 months, averaging 91.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 451 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.