Property market
The five-year median is £180,000 from 1 recorded sale in WF9 4EE. 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 4EE
Hemsworth · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pontefract
- Ward
- Hemsworth
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF9 4EE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 4
- Latitude
- 53.609235
- Longitude
- -1.360457
- British National Grid easting
- 442,412
- British National Grid northing
- 412,708
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Wakefield · E08000036
- Electoral ward
- Hemsworth · E05016530
- Parish or community
- E04013428
- Westminster constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth · E14001383
- Output area
- E00059836
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 042D · E01011865
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 042 · E02002479
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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Highfield Place, Hemsworth, Pontefract, WF9 4EE | 28 February 2025 | £180,000 |
| 17, Highfield Place, Hemsworth, Pontefract, WF9 4EE | 5 March 2021 | £250,000 |
| 8, Highfield Place, Hemsworth, Pontefract, WF9 4EE | 11 July 2017 | £107,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 3
- 150 m
St Helen's CE Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 400 m
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 698 m
West End Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,267
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 588
- Shoplifting 115
- Criminal damage and arson 113
- Anti social behaviour 104
- Public order 93
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- WF9 4 residents
- 8,857
13 female, 7 male
Age bands in WF9 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
1,487 residents
915 residents
2,169 residents
2,466 residents
1,913 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WF9 4 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
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
504 m
LANGTHWAITE SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, LANGTHWAITE RD, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87036
4.0 km
PARK GREEN SURGERY
LANGTHWAITE ROAD, LANGTHWAITE GRANGE IND ESTATE, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87006
4.0 km
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
4.1 km
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
4.1 km
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
4.1 km
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
4.2 km
WHITE ROSE SURGERY
EXCHANGE STREET, SOUTH ELMSALL, PONTEFRACT, WF9 2RD
ODS code B87016
4.7 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Rosehill Avenue
BCT · Hemsworth
- 0.1 miles
Highfield Estate
BCT · Hemsworth
- 0.1 miles
Moorshutt Road
BCT · Hemsworth
- 0.1 miles
Rosehill Ave Ferndale Place
BCT · Hemsworth
- 0.1 miles
Gargrave Crescent
BCT · Hemsworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 042D, 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
2,806 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
28 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Helen's CE Primary School is the nearest published school at 150 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,267 published events cover 12 months, averaging 105.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 588 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.