Sharlston

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

Typical price £140,000 Homes sold in Sharlston, last 12 months. ▼ 20.6% on the year before Gigabit broadband 53 of 57 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Sharlston, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Sharlston, by flood risk Of the 59 postcodes in Sharlston that ONS places, 59 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Sharlston. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A645 WF4 1AA: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AD: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AE: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AF: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AG: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AH: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AJ: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AL: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AP: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AQ: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AR: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AS: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AT: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AU: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AX: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AY: not on the flood risk listWF4 1AZ: not on the flood risk listWF4 1BA: not on the flood risk listWF4 1BJ: not on the flood risk listWF4 1BL: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DA: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DB: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DD: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DE: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DF: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DG: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DH: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DP: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DQ: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DR: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DS: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DT: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DU: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DW: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DX: not on the flood risk listWF4 1DY: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EA: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EB: not on the flood risk listWF4 1ED: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EE: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EF: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EG: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EH: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EJ: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EL: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EN: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EQ: not on the flood risk listWF4 1ER: not on the flood risk listWF4 1ES: not on the flood risk listWF4 1ET: not on the flood risk listWF4 1EW: not on the flood risk listWF4 1LN: not on the flood risk listWF4 1LW: not on the flood risk listWF4 1TG: not on the flood risk listWF4 1TH: not on the flood risk listWF4 1TJ: not on the flood risk listWF4 1TQ: not on the flood risk listWF4 1WX: not on the flood risk list Sharlston Map of every postcode in Sharlston, by flood risk Of the 59 postcodes in Sharlston that ONS places, 59 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Sharlston. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A645 Sharlston
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 59

Of the 59 postcodes in Sharlston that ONS places, 59 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. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.6687, longitude -1.4120. 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

What is it like to live in Sharlston?

Homes sold for a typical £140,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 20.6% on the 12 months before. At 53 of the 57 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 59 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Crofton and Sharlston Med Prac, 1.7 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Streethouse, 1.1 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 Sharlston?

Homes in Sharlston sold for a typical £140,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 24 sales, down 20.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£140,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£176,250
12 months to August 2026
£140,000

▼ down 20.6% on the 12 months before

Detached£282,500 8 sales
Semi-detached£142,500 6 sales
Terraced£115,000 10 sales

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

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Sharlston: 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 Sharlston?

1 of the 59 postcodes now in use in Sharlston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 20 homes sold in Sharlston were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WF4 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

WF4 1EWsince February 2022

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

PeriodIn SharlstonAcross the WF4 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 24 (0%) 1 of 478 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 20 (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 Sharlston?

Ofcom reports on 57 of the 59 postcodes in Sharlston. At 53 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit53 of 57
Postcodes where every home can get superfast56 of 57

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 checker

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

Is Sharlston at risk of flooding?

None of the 59 postcodes in Sharlston is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 Sharlston?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Sharlston. 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 Sharlston?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Sharlston is Streethouse Rail Station, 1.1 km away in a straight line.

  • Streethouse Rail Station Railway station 1.1 kmWalk
  • Normanton Rail Station Railway station 3.6 kmCycle
  • Featherstone Rail Station Railway station 3.7 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 Sharlston?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Sharlston. 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 Sharlston safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 429 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Sharlston 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. 31 September 2025
  2. 31 October 2025
  3. 41 November 2025
  4. 27 December 2025
  5. 30 January 2026
  6. 45 February 2026
  7. 33 March 2026
  8. 25 April 2026
  9. 33 May 2026
  10. 46 June 2026
  11. 50 July 2026
  12. 37 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences225 reports
Criminal damage and arson44 reports
Public order36 reports
Anti-social behaviour28 reports
Other theft23 reports
Other crime20 reports
Burglary16 reports
Vehicle crime16 reports

Also: drugs 8, theft from the person 5, possession of weapons 5, robbery 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 Sharlston?

Council
Wakefield
Parliamentary constituency
Normanton and Hemsworth
Police force area
West Yorkshire
Region
Yorkshire and The Humber
Country
England
MP
Jon Trickett (Labour)

All 59 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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Sharlston postcodes

59 postcodes in use in Sharlston, by district:

WF4 postcode district,59 postcodes

That district is in the WF postcode area.

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Places near Sharlston

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Sharlston's £140,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Crofton1.6 km, £240,000Normanton3.5 km, £210,000Featherstone3.8 km, £180,500Walton4.0 km, £316,250Fitzwilliam and Kinsley5.0 km, £160,000Havercroft and Ryhill5.0 km, £156,000Ackworth Moor Top5.4 km, £235,000Wakefield6.2 km, £225,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Sharlston

What is it like to live in Sharlston?
Homes sold for a typical £140,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 20.6% on the 12 months before. At 53 of the 57 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 59 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Crofton and Sharlston Med Prac, 1.7 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Streethouse, 1.1 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 Sharlston?
Sharlston is covered by postcode district WF4, across 59 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Sharlston in?
Sharlston is in the Wakefield council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Sharlston?
Sharlston is in the Normanton and Hemsworth parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Jon Trickett (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Sharlston?
Homes in Sharlston sold for a typical £140,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 24 sales, down 20.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Sharlston?
In Sharlston, primary schools at its postcodes include Sharlston Community School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Crofton Academy, 1.7 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Sharlston have a railway station?
Yes: Streethouse is 1.1 km from the centre point of the postcodes in Sharlston, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Sharlston?
Ofcom reports on 57 of the 59 postcodes in Sharlston. At 53 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Sharlston at risk of flooding?
None of the 59 postcodes in Sharlston is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Sharlston?
1 of the 59 postcodes now in use in Sharlston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 20 homes sold in Sharlston 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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