Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. King's Meadow Academy is the nearest published school at 79 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WF9 5XD
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WF9 5XD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 May 2001
- Postcode area
- WF
- Postcode district
- WF9
- Postcode sector
- WF9 5
- Latitude
- 53.629851
- Longitude
- -1.373422
- British National Grid easting
- 441,534
- British National Grid northing
- 414,994
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
- E00059431
- Lower layer super output area
- Wakefield 039D · E01011792
- Middle layer super output area
- Wakefield 039 · E02002476
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
- 23
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 79 m
King's Meadow Academy
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- 973 m
Fitzwilliam Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
West End Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 533
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 312
- Anti social behaviour 53
- Criminal damage and arson 34
- Other theft 30
- Public order 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WF9 5 residents
- 5,308
Age bands in WF9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 17%
1,051 residents
520 residents
1,470 residents
1,291 residents
890 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
THE GRANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHFIELD ROAD, HEMSWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF9 4DP
ODS code B87026
2.4 km
COLLEGE LANE SURGERY
BARNSLEY ROAD, ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WF7 7HZ
ODS code B87003
3.0 km
CROFTON AND SHARLSTON MED PRAC
SLACK LANE, CROFTON, WAKEFIELD, WF4 1HJ
ODS code B87028
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Kings Meadow Academy
BCT · Kinsley
- 0.0 miles
Kings Meadow Academy
BCT · Kinsley
- 0.1 miles
Fitzwilliam Station
BCT · Fitzwilliam
- 0.2 miles
Fitzwilliam Rail Station
RSE · Fitzwilliam
- 0.2 miles
Carrgate
BCT · Kinsley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wakefield 039D, 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
186 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
533 published events cover 12 months, averaging 44.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 312 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.