Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. South Kirkby Academy is the nearest published school at 266 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF9 3HW
South Elmsall & South Kirkby · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF9 3HW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 3
- Latitude
- 53.590125
- Longitude
- -1.330712
- British National Grid easting
- 444,400
- British National Grid northing
- 410,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- South Elmsall & South Kirkby · E05016537
- Parish or community
- E04013432
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059849
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 045A · E01011864
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 045 · E02002482
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
- 24
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 3
- 266 m
South Kirkby Academy
Academy converter
- 286 m
South Kirkby Common Road Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 903 m
Northfield Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,087
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 463
- Shoplifting 128
- Anti social behaviour 95
- Criminal damage and arson 88
- Public order 86
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF9 3 residents
- 8,690
Age bands in WF9 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
1,760 residents
980 residents
2,281 residents
2,305 residents
1,557 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
LANGTHWAITE SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, LANGTHWAITE RD, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87036
1.4 km
PARK GREEN SURGERY
LANGTHWAITE ROAD, LANGTHWAITE GRANGE IND ESTATE, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87006
1.4 km
WHITE ROSE SURGERY
EXCHANGE STREET, SOUTH ELMSALL, PONTEFRACT, WF9 2RD
ODS code B87016
2.5 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
2.9 km
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
3.7 km
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
3.7 km
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
3.7 km
DEARNE VALLEY GROUP PRACTICE
THE THURNSCOE LIFT BUILDING, HOLLY BUSH DRIVE, THURNSCOE, ROTHERHAM, S63 0LU
ODS code Y00411
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mill Ln West Street
BCT · South Kirkby
- 0.1 miles
Mill Ln West Street
BCT · South Kirkby
- 0.1 miles
Stockingate Millars Walk
BCT · South Kirkby
- 0.1 miles
Stockingate Millars Walk
BCT · South Kirkby
- 0.2 miles
Mill Ln White Apron Street
BCT · South Kirkby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 045A, 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
1,492 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
1,087 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 463 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.