Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. West End Academy is the nearest published school at 266 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF9 4QD
Hemsworth · Wakefield · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 4QD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 4
- Latitude
- 53.613634
- Longitude
- -1.356037
- British National Grid easting
- 442,700
- British National Grid northing
- 413,200
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
- E00059441
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 042A · E01011787
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 3
- 266 m
West End Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 357 m
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 507 m
Outwood Academy Hemsworth
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,368
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 641
- Anti social behaviour 123
- Criminal damage and arson 122
- Shoplifting 115
- Public order 99
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF9 4 residents
- 8,857
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
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
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
231 m
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
3.7 km
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
WHITE ROSE SURGERY
EXCHANGE STREET, SOUTH ELMSALL, PONTEFRACT, WF9 2RD
ODS code B87016
4.6 km
BHF HIGHGATE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05363
4.7 km
BRIERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
BARNSLEY HEALTHCARE FED, GRIMETHORPE HEALTH CENTRE, ACORN WAY, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code Y05248
4.7 km
GRIMETHORPE SURGERY
THE GRIMETHORPE CENTRE, ACORN WAY, GRIMETHORPE, BARNSLEY, S72 7NZ
ODS code C85018
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cedar Business Centre
BCT · Hemsworth
- 0.1 miles
Cedar Business Centre
BCT · Hemsworth
- 0.1 miles
Hemsworth Bus Station
BCS · Hemsworth
- 0.1 miles
Hemsworth Bus Station
BCS · Hemsworth
- 0.1 miles
Hemsworth Bus Station
BCS · Hemsworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 042A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,663 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,368 published events cover 12 months, averaging 114 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 641 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.