WF11 crime rate and statistics

The WF11 postcode district, in the WF (Wakefield) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,353 street-crime records for WF11 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 17.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 133.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 123.8 for West Yorkshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

2,353

Latest month (August 2026)

207

Year-on-year

-17.5%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 188
October 2025 222
November 2025 159
December 2025 194
January 2026 180
February 2026 181
March 2026 153
April 2026 170
May 2026 245
June 2026 233
July 2026 221
August 2026 207

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

WF11

133.3

West Yorkshire Police

123.8

2,353 records and 17,654 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of WF11 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in WF11

Published street-crime records in WF11, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright

Records by part of WF11: the south-west 1,204, the south 455, the south-east 364, the west 362, the north-west 200, the east 12, the north-east 1.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 280 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of WF11's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and WF11's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of WF11 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore WF11 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for WF11 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 2,820
2022 2,944
2023 2,493
2024 2,749
2025 2,711
2026 (part year) 1,590

Is WF11 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for WF11 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in WF11 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

Moving home? Read how to check crime rates before buying a house. Browse all postcode districts

Police forces

WF11's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by West Yorkshire Police (90.3%), North Yorkshire Police (9.5%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Humberside Police (0.0%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%), Northamptonshire Police (0.0%) and Staffordshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in WF11

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
WF11 0 973
WF11 8 993
WF11 9 387

Council areas

WF11 is mostly in the Wakefield council area, and also covers parts of the North Yorkshire council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 17,654 Census 2021 residents of WF11.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 53.4% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About WF11 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £188,750 (148)
2025 £190,000 (293)
2024 £182,500 (281)
2023 £162,500 (234)
2022 £170,000 (275)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £247,500 (28) £186,500 (82) £165,000 (31) £152,000 (7)
2025 £243,500 (58) £185,000 (161) £157,000 (68) £77,500 (6)
2024 £227,000 (57) £180,000 (157) £130,000 (61) £81,550 (6)
2023 £227,248 (52) £160,000 (120) £125,000 (59) – (3)
2022 £243,995 (65) £165,995 (139) £133,000 (65) £114,998 (6)

Schools and colleges

9 open establishments with a postcode in WF11, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 9 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Brotherton and Byram Community Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
England Lane Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Fairburn Community Primary School Primary Academy converter
Simpson's Lane Academy Primary Academy converter
St Botolphs CE Academy Primary Academy converter
The Vale Primary Academy Primary Academy converter
Willow Green Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
De Lacy Academy Secondary Academy converter
Balance Alternative Provision – Other independent special school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High50
Medium13
Low24
Very low6

Broadband

Share of the 543 postcodes in WF11 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit77.3%87.8%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)91.5%95.2%

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CrimeMapsUK. WF11 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 31 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/wf11/

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