Property market
The five-year median is £315,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF9 3QU. 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 3QU
South Elmsall & South Kirkby · 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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF9 3QU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 3
- Latitude
- 53.589621
- Longitude
- -1.321036
- British National Grid easting
- 445,041
- British National Grid northing
- 410,550
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
- E00059873
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 045B · E01011866
- 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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Royles Close, South Kirkby, Pontefract, WF9 3QU | 2 December 2025 | £315,000 |
| 1, Royles Close, South Kirkby, Pontefract, WF9 3QU | 28 May 2021 | £215,000 |
| 1, Royles Close, South Kirkby, Pontefract, WF9 3QU | 22 June 2012 | £165,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 2
- 626 m
Northfield Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 702 m
South Kirkby Academy
Academy converter
- 837 m
South Kirkby Common Road Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,567
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 705
- Criminal damage and arson 139
- Shoplifting 128
- Anti social behaviour 128
- Public order 121
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- WF9 3 residents
- 8,690
3 female, 3 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF9 3 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
8
within 5 km
LANGTHWAITE SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, LANGTHWAITE RD, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87036
737 m
PARK GREEN SURGERY
LANGTHWAITE ROAD, LANGTHWAITE GRANGE IND ESTATE, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87006
737 m
WHITE ROSE SURGERY
EXCHANGE STREET, SOUTH ELMSALL, PONTEFRACT, WF9 2RD
ODS code B87016
1.9 km
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
3.3 km
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
4.2 km
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
4.2 km
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
4.2 km
DEARNE VALLEY GROUP PRACTICE
THE THURNSCOE LIFT BUILDING, HOLLY BUSH DRIVE, THURNSCOE, ROTHERHAM, S63 0LU
ODS code Y00411
4.8 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Stockingate Park Estate
BCT · South Kirkby
- 0.1 miles
Stockingate Park Estate
BCT · South Kirkby
- 0.2 miles
Stockingate Mayfields Way
BCT · South Kirkby
- 0.2 miles
Stockingate Mayfields Way
BCT · South Kirkby
- 0.3 miles
Prospect Terrace
BCT · South Kirkby
Relative deprivation
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
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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 20 primary and 2 secondary schools. Northfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 626 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,567 published events cover 12 months, averaging 130.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 705 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.