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Coxley (Wakefield)

Coxley (Wakefield) is a town or village in West Yorkshire, England. It has one pharmacy, nine restaurants or cafés, 18 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Pugneys Lakeside, 4.5 km away. There were around 31 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Coxley (Wakefield) area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Wakefield area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 353,364 residents at roughly 1,044 people per km².

Council
Wakefield
County
West Yorkshire
Constituency
Wakefield
Police force
West Yorkshire
40/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 230th of 294 English council areas — better than 22% of them.

Low crime7
Home affordability88
Affordable rents86
Good schools31
Life expectancy18
Low deprivation20
Employment34
Low council tax82

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

12°CClear

  • Today: 20° / 12° · 32% rain
  • Tomorrow: 21° / 15° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:32

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Leeds Centre, United Kingdom

Crime

30 reported · July 2026 3% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences11
  • Criminal damage & arson8
  • Anti-social behaviour3
  • Burglary2

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Wakefield West · West Yorkshire

Local policing priorities

  • Anti-social behaviour Anti-social behaviour including youths abusing members of the public and the illegal use of motor bikes in the loca…
  • Vehicle Crime We have seen an increase in Theft of Motor Vehicles particularly high value vehicles, from local beauty spots including New…

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

589 reported road collisions (2024)

187 killed or seriously injured · 754 casualties · 16.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

237 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 203 rated 4–5 ★ (159 top)
  • 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Pugneys Lakeside (4.5 km)
  • 18 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Ravensthorpe (5.4 km):

Loading live departures…

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£198,519 average 4.8% YoY

Across Wakefield · to 2026-06

Detached£314,856
Semi-detached£199,891
Terraced£158,494
Flat£100,133

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£800 average monthly rent 5.8% YoY

  • 1 bed £572
  • 2 bed £721
  • 3 bed £863

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

Affordability

5.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.6 times median annual pay (5.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (10 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 176.7p · Asda (5.2 km)

23 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

41 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 27 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: Genie (1.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Sports pitches13
  • Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

353,364 residents in Wakefield · 1,044/km²

  • Under 16: 19%
  • 16–64: 63%
  • 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 64 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

16% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,297 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (48% of 165,130)

A £1,531
B £1,786
C £2,042
D £2,297
E £2,807
F £3,318
G £3,828
H £4,594

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

158 schools · 56,852 pupils

113 primary · 18 secondary · 27 other

Ofsted: 51 of 61 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

141inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • De Lacy AcademyOutstanding
  • Trinity Academy CathedralOutstanding
  • Crofton AcademyGood
  • Horbury AcademyGood
  • Ossett Academy and Sixth Form CollegeGood
  • Outwood Academy City FieldsGood
  • Outwood Grange AcademyGood
  • St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary AcademyGood
  • The King's SchoolGood
  • Airedale AcademyRequires improvement
  • Carleton High School
  • Castleford Academy
  • Kettlethorpe High School
  • Minsthorpe Community College
  • Outwood Academy Freeston
  • Outwood Academy Hemsworth
  • St Wilfrid's Catholic High School & Sixth Form College: A Voluntary Academy
  • The Featherstone Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wakefield

Care & health services

304 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes97
  • GP practices42
  • Dentists60
  • Homecare agencies85
  • Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 86% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 9 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wakefield

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 13 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

257 applications decided

90.3% granted · 232 granted, 25 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Jade Botterill

Labour

Ossett and Denby Dale

Recent votes:

  • AyeTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • NoSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Reform UK majority

  • Lab 1
  • Con 1
  • LD 2
  • Grn 1
  • Ref 55
  • Oth 3

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools5
  • Pharmacies1
  • Parks & greens11
  • Restaurants & cafés16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

12,470 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Local economy

£689 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,460 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 204,474 certificates

13.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

82% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 52% · Wind 22% · Gas 9% · Imports 9%

99 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for Yorkshire · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 82.2 yrs women · 77.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 53.8 women · 54 men

73% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.4
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Ossett and Denby Dale:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • Horbury and Ossett railway station · 1.0 km

    Horbury and Ossett railway station formerly served the town of Horbury in West Yorkshire, England. It was located on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, which ran along the Calder valley establishing a key link between…

  • Netherton, Wakefield · 1.1 km

    Netherton is a village in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It lies about 4 miles south-west of Wakefield, 3 miles south of Ossett and 1 mile south of Horbury. The village is in th…

  • Middlestown · 1.2 km

    Middlestown is a small village in the Wakefield District in West Yorkshire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Sitlington and located halfway between the city of Wakefield and the town of Huddersfield, and…

  • Healey Mills Marshalling Yard · 1.2 km

    Healey Mills Marshalling Yard is a railway marshalling yard located in the village of Healey, south west of Ossett in West Yorkshire, England. The yard was opened in 1963 and replaced several smaller yards in the area…

  • Horbury Town Hall · 1.6 km

    Horbury Town Hall is a former municipal building in Westfield Road, Horbury, West Yorkshire, England. The structure, which is now used as business centre, is a locally listed building.

  • Sitlington · 1.6 km

    Sitlington, historically Shitlington, was a township in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Thornhill in the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire comprising the villages and hamlets of Midd…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Coxley (Wakefield)?
Coxley (Wakefield) is a town in West Yorkshire, England, in the Wakefield local authority.
How deprived is Coxley (Wakefield)?
The Wakefield local authority, which includes Coxley (Wakefield), is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.