Netherton, Wakefield

Netherton, Wakefield is covered by postcode district WF4. It is in the Wakefield council area, England.

ONS publishes this built-up area as Netherton (Wakefield).

Typical price £227,500 Homes sold in Netherton, Wakefield, last 12 months. ▼ 9% on the year before Gigabit broadband 44 of 52 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 1 of 52 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Netherton, Wakefield, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Netherton, Wakefield, by flood risk Of the 52 postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 51 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Netherton, Wakefield. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. WF4 4EY: not on the flood risk listWF4 4EZ: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HA: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HB: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HE: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HF: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HG: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HH: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HJ: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HL: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HN: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HP: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HQ: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HR: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HS: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HT: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HU: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HW: not on the flood risk listWF4 4JA: not on the flood risk listWF4 4JB: not on the flood risk listWF4 4JD: not on the flood risk listWF4 4LL: not on the flood risk listWF4 4LP: not on the flood risk listWF4 4LR: not on the flood risk listWF4 4LS: not on the flood risk listWF4 4LT: not on the flood risk listWF4 4LU: not on the flood risk listWF4 4LW: not on the flood risk listWF4 4LX: not on the flood risk listWF4 4LY: not on the flood risk listWF4 4LZ: not on the flood risk listWF4 4NA: not on the flood risk listWF4 4NB: not on the flood risk listWF4 4ND: not on the flood risk listWF4 4NE: not on the flood risk listWF4 4NF: not on the flood risk listWF4 4NG: not on the flood risk listWF4 4NH: not on the flood risk listWF4 4NJ: not on the flood risk listWF4 4NL: not on the flood risk listWF4 4NQ: not on the flood risk listWF4 4SH: not on the flood risk listWF4 4SL: not on the flood risk listWF4 4SN: not on the flood risk listWF4 4SP: not on the flood risk listWF4 4SR: not on the flood risk listWF4 4SS: not on the flood risk listWF4 4ST: not on the flood risk listWF4 4SW: not on the flood risk listWF4 4TQ: not on the flood risk listWF4 4TS: not on the flood risk listWF4 4HD: high flood risk Netherton, Wakefield Map of every postcode in Netherton, Wakefield, by flood risk Of the 52 postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 51 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Netherton, Wakefield. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Netherton, Wakefield
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 51

Of the 52 postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 51 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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.6450, longitude -1.5788. 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

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

WF4 4HD3 at high risk

What is it like to live in Netherton, Wakefield?

Homes sold for a typical £227,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 9% on the 12 months before. At 44 of the 52 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 52 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Middlestown, 1.6 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Ravensthorpe, 6.1 km 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 Netherton, Wakefield?

Homes in Netherton, Wakefield sold for a typical £227,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 18 sales, down 9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£227,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£250,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 9% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £335,000 5 sales
  • Semi-detached £245,389 10 sales
  • Terraced 3 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole WF4 district, Netherton, Wakefield's main postcode district: a typical £230,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Netherton, Wakefield: 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 Netherton, Wakefield?

None of the 52 postcodes now in use in Netherton, Wakefield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 41 homes sold in Netherton, Wakefield were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WF4 district, 0%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Netherton, WakefieldAcross the WF4 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 18 (0%) 1 of 478 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 41 (0%) 0 of 605 (0%)

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 Netherton, Wakefield?

Ofcom reports on 52 of the 52 postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield. At 44 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit44 of 52
Postcodes where every home can get superfast49 of 52

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.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Netherton, Wakefield at risk of flooding?

1 of the 52 postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 3 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1 of 52 postcodes High: 3

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 Netherton, Wakefield?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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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 Netherton, Wakefield?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield is Ravensthorpe Rail Station, 6.1 km away in a straight line.

  • Ravensthorpe Rail Station Railway station 6.1 kmDrive
  • Dewsbury Rail Station Railway station 6.3 kmDrive
  • Wakefield Westgate Rail Station Railway station 6.4 kmDrive

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 Netherton, Wakefield?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Netherton, Wakefield safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 208 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield 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

  1. 24 September 2025
  2. 16 October 2025
  3. 11 November 2025
  4. 19 December 2025
  5. 18 January 2026
  6. 18 February 2026
  7. 14 March 2026
  8. 15 April 2026
  9. 24 May 2026
  10. 13 June 2026
  11. 11 July 2026
  12. 25 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences96 reports
Anti-social behaviour37 reports
Criminal damage and arson17 reports
Vehicle crime15 reports
Public order12 reports
Burglary9 reports
Other theft8 reports
Drugs5 reports

Also: other crime 4, robbery 2, possession of weapons 2, shoplifting 1.

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 postcode

Source: 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 Netherton, Wakefield?

Council
Wakefield
Parliamentary constituency
Ossett and Denby Dale
Police force area
West Yorkshire
Region
Yorkshire and The Humber
Country
England
MP
Jade Botterill (Labour)

All 52 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Netherton, Wakefield postcodes

52 postcodes in use in Netherton, Wakefield, by district:

WF4 postcode district,52 postcodes

That district is in the WF postcode area.

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Places near Netherton, Wakefield

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Netherton, Wakefield's £227,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Middlestown and Overton1.6 km, £200,000Horbury2.3 km, £220,000Crigglestone and Durkar3.4 km, £244,250Ossett3.9 km, £214,500Hall Green4.1 km, £295,000Dewsbury6.0 km, £175,000Wakefield6.6 km, £225,000Skelmanthorpe and Clayton West6.9 km, £268,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Netherton, Wakefield

What is it like to live in Netherton, Wakefield?
Homes sold for a typical £227,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 9% on the 12 months before. At 44 of the 52 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 52 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Middlestown, 1.6 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Ravensthorpe, 6.1 km 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 Netherton, Wakefield?
Netherton, Wakefield is covered by postcode district WF4, across 52 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Netherton, Wakefield in?
Netherton, Wakefield is in the Wakefield council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Netherton, Wakefield?
Netherton, Wakefield is in the Ossett and Denby Dale parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Jade Botterill (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Netherton, Wakefield?
Homes in Netherton, Wakefield sold for a typical £227,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 18 sales, down 9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Netherton, Wakefield?
In Netherton, Wakefield, primary schools at its postcodes include Sitlington Netherton Junior and Infant School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Denby Grange School, 1.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Netherton, Wakefield have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield is Ravensthorpe, 6.1 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Netherton, Wakefield?
Ofcom reports on 52 of the 52 postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield. At 44 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Netherton, Wakefield at risk of flooding?
1 of the 52 postcodes in Netherton, Wakefield has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 3 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 Netherton, Wakefield?
None of the 52 postcodes now in use in Netherton, Wakefield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 41 homes sold in Netherton, Wakefield were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WF4 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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