Hemsworth · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
St Helen's CE Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Brierley Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
South Hiendley Primary School
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
14 female, 9 male
1,487 residents
915 residents
2,169 residents
2,466 residents
1,913 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% 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.
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
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
1.7 km
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
3.8 km
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
3.8 km
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
3.8 km
WHITE ROSE MED PRACTICE, CUDWORTH CTR, CARLTON STREET, BARNSLEY, S72 8SU
ODS code C85014
4.2 km
THE SURGERY, 65D MIDLAND ROAD, ROYSTON, BARNSLEY, S71 4QW
ODS code C85005
4.8 km
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
5.0 km
Holgate Almshouses
BCT · Hemsworth
Holgate Almshouses
BCT · Hemsworth
Woodview
BCT · Hemsworth
Woodview
BCT · Hemsworth
Wood Street
BCT · South Hiendley
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 040C, 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
6,751 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.
25 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 2 secondary schools. St Helen's CE Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
623 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 309 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.