Castleford
Castleford is covered by postcode districts WF6 and WF10. It is mostly in the Wakefield council area: 1,114 of its 1,116 postcodes. The others are in Leeds.
Every postcode in Castleford, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 13
- At medium risk at worst: 18
- At low risk at worst: 105
- At very low risk only: 1
- Not on the at-risk list: 979
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 1,116 postcodes in Castleford that ONS places, 13 have a home or business at high risk, 18 are at medium risk at worst, 105 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 979 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.7212, longitude -1.3449. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The postcodes at high risk
13 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
What is it like to live in Castleford?
Homes sold for a typical £182,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.6% on the 12 months before. At 957 of the 1,092 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 199 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 137 of its 1,116 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Castleford, 700 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Castleford?
Homes in Castleford sold for a typical £182,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 501 sales, down 1.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £300,000 93 sales
- Semi-detached £190,000 212 sales
- Terraced £140,000 187 sales
- Flat or maisonette £124,000 9 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole WF10 district, Castleford's main postcode district: a typical £185,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Castleford: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Castleford?
43 of the 1,116 postcodes now in use in Castleford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 24 of the 607 homes sold in Castleford were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WF10 district, 6%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Castleford | Across the WF10 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 3 of 501 (Under 1%) | 8 of 567 (1%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 24 of 607 (4%) | 45 of 698 (6%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Castleford?
Ofcom reports on 1,092 of the 1,116 postcodes in Castleford. At 957 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Castleford at risk of flooding?
137 of the 1,116 postcodes in Castleford have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 199 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Castleford?
The open schools at the postcodes in Castleford (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Glasshoughton Infant Academy200 m 222 pupils, 180 places
- Castleford Park Junior Academy250 m 412 pupils, 420 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Castleford450 m 197 pupils, 210 places
- Smawthorne Henry Moore Academy600 m 473 pupils, 530 places
- Castleford Wheldon Infant School and Nursery700 m 169 pupils, 135 places
- Half Acres Primary Academy950 m 424 pupils, 450 places
- Airedale Junior Academy1.7 km 385 pupils, 448 places
- Fairburn View Primary School, Castleford1.9 km 471 pupils, 420 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Castleford?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Castleford is Castleford Rail Station, 700 m away in a straight line.
- Castleford Rail Station Railway station 700 mWalk
- Glasshoughton Rail Station Railway station 1.4 kmCycle
- Pontefract Tanshelf Rail Station Railway station 3.5 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Castleford?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Castleford. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Henry Moore Clinic Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01977 552007 650 mWalk
- Castleford Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01977 465777 850 mWalk
- Riverside Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01977 554831 1.1 kmWalk
- Tieve Tara Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2026 · Phone 01977 668455 2.4 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Castleford safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 4,536 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Castleford over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 378 September 2025
- 424 October 2025
- 338 November 2025
- 321 December 2025
- 385 January 2026
- 364 February 2026
- 411 March 2026
- 365 April 2026
- 375 May 2026
- 417 June 2026
- 387 July 2026
- 371 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 169, drugs 123, robbery 57, possession of weapons 31, bicycle theft 23, theft from the person 19.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Castleford?
- Councils
- Wakefield (1,114) and Leeds (2)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley (1,114) and Selby (2)
- Police force area
- West Yorkshire
- Region
- Yorkshire and The Humber
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Castleford
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Castleford is in Wakefield; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Wakefield about council tax Council tax, on wakefield.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Castleford
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Castleford postcodes
1,116 postcodes in use in Castleford, by district:
Those districts are all in the WF postcode area.
Check a Castleford postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Castleford
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Castleford's £182,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Castleford
- What is it like to live in Castleford?
- Homes sold for a typical £182,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.6% on the 12 months before. At 957 of the 1,092 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 199 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 137 of its 1,116 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Castleford, 700 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Castleford?
- Castleford is covered by postcode districts WF6 and WF10, across 1,116 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Castleford?
- Homes in Castleford sold for a typical £182,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 501 sales, down 1.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Castleford?
- In Castleford, primary schools at its postcodes include Glasshoughton Infant Academy, Castleford Park Junior Academy and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Castleford; secondary schools at its postcodes include Castleford Academy and Airedale Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Castleford have a railway station?
- Yes: Castleford is 700 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Castleford, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Castleford?
- Ofcom reports on 1,092 of the 1,116 postcodes in Castleford. At 957 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Castleford at risk of flooding?
- 137 of the 1,116 postcodes in Castleford have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 199 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Castleford?
- 43 of the 1,116 postcodes now in use in Castleford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 24 of the 607 homes sold in Castleford were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WF10 district, 6%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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