Map of WF8 3HR postcode

Geography
Latitude 53.648528
Longitude -1.263799
Easting 448762
Northing 417143
Grid reference SE487171
UTM reference 30U 614758 5945818
what3words lonely.stump.mostly
Plus code 9C5WJPXP+CF
Altitude 47 metres (155 feet)
Sunrise (today) 6:18
Sunset (today) 18:11
Distance away
Distance to sea 37.4 KMs (23.2 miles)
Administrative areas
ParishThorpe AudlinE04000245
Ward Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton E05001444
Metropolitan District Wakefield E08000036
County West Yorkshire E11000019
Constituency (2024) Normanton and Hemsworth E14001383
MPJon TrickettLabour
Police forceWest Yorkshire
Water companyYorkshire Water
NUTS/ITL 3 Wakefield
NUTS/ITL 2 West Yorkshire
NUTS/ITL 1 Yorkshire and The Humber
Country England E92000001
Data
Date introduced January 1980
Last updated February 2025
User type Small (addresses receive less than 25 items of mail per day)
Quality Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean
Demographics
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)
25,944 / 32,844
Most deprivedLeast deprived
Average household income (2020)
£50,200
Lowest (£22,200) Highest (£108,100)
Rural/urbanRural village
Census output area (2021)E00059816
Census output area (2011)E00059816
Lower layer super output area (2021)Wakefield 034FE01011857
Lower layer super output area (2011)Wakefield 034FE01011857
Middle layer super output area (2021)Ackworth & DarringtonE02002471
Middle layer super output area (2011)Ackworth & DarringtonE02002471
Travel to work areaWakefield and CastlefordE30000283
Property sales
Average property price in Wakefield £191,774
Annual change 2.0%
View all properties sold in the WF postcode area
Properties recently sold in this postcode
AddressTypeDatePrice
Chestnut House Hotel, Great North Road, DarringtonDetached (freehold)Aug 2008£775,000


View all properties sold in the WF8 3 sector

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