Hemsworth · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
1,487 residents
915 residents
2,169 residents
2,466 residents
1,913 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.
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within 5 km
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
634 m
CHURCH VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, LANGTHWAITE RD, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87036
3.3 km
LANGTHWAITE ROAD, LANGTHWAITE GRANGE IND ESTATE, SOUTH KIRKBY, PONTEFRACT, WF9 3AP
ODS code B87006
3.3 km
EXCHANGE STREET, SOUTH ELMSALL, PONTEFRACT, WF9 2RD
ODS code B87016
4.0 km
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
4.1 km
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
4.1 km
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
4.1 km
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
4.4 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.
Southmoor Rd Ashfield Road
BCT · Hemsworth
Southmoor Rd Ashfield Road
BCT · Hemsworth
Ashfield House
BCT · Hemsworth
Moor Top Drive
BCT · Hemsworth
Victoria Street
BCT · Hemsworth
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 042C, 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
2,302 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.
29 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. Grove Lea Primary School is the nearest published school at 494 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,226 published events cover 12 months, averaging 102.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 568 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.