Crofton

10°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 12° / 8° · 64% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:11Sunset 16:27

9h 16m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

28US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Leeds Centre, United Kingdom

• 7.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

35 reported · August 2026▼ 5% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences15
• Anti-social behaviour7
• Other theft4
• Criminal damage & arson3

Neighbourhood team: Wakefield West · West Yorkshire

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

555 reported road collisions (2025)

167 killed or seriously injured · 722 casualties · 15.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

69 food businesses within 2 miles

• 60 rated 4–5 ★ (42 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Streethouse (2.8 km)
• 34 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£199,283 average▲ 2.9% YoY

Across Wakefield · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£806 average monthly rent▲ 5.9% YoY

• 1 bed £576
• 2 bed £726
• 3 bed £869

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

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

4,321 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (5.6 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (5.6 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

35 charging locations within ~8 km

• 20 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Waterton Park Hotel (2.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches21
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

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

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK15,357
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK13,379
• Net moves+1,978

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 63 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

17% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,297 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

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

157 schools · 56,122 pupils

113 primary · 18 secondary · 26 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wakefield

302 CQC-registered services

• Care homes97
• GP practices42
• Dentists60
• Homecare agencies83
• Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 9 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wakefield

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

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

307 applications decided

93.5% granted · 287 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Jon Trickett

Labour

Normanton and Hemsworth

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

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

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

• Schools5
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens4
• Restaurants & cafés15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

12,570 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

3 jobs advertised · £28,000 avg

e.g. Internet Crowd Worker, Work from Home Independent Contractor, Work from Home (Researcher)

Source: Adzuna

£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

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

82% low-carbon electricity

Biomass 41% · Wind 37% · Gas 14% · Imports 4%

106 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for Yorkshire · National Grid ESO

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

• 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

4 GP surgeries · 9 pharmacies in WF4

• Middlestown
• Orchard Croft
• Crofton And Sharlston Med Prac

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Normanton and Hemsworth:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth262 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND172 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK164 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Fund second stem cell transplants on NHS for relapse within 12 months157 local signatures · 30,826 nationwide
• Fund £20,000 a year (term time) wage for Teaching Assistants144 local signatures · 39,730 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Crofton, West Yorkshire · 0.1 km

  Crofton is a village in West Yorkshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) south-east of Wakefield, some 6 miles (10 km) to the west of the town of Pontefract, and 4 miles (6 km) from the town of Featherstone. The populati…

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  Crofton Academy · 0.2 km

  Crofton Academy is an 11-16 state secondary school outside Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The school is also an academy.

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  Hare Park & Crofton railway station · 0.7 km

  Hare Park & Crofton railway station, sometimes just known as Crofton railway station, was a station located on the West Riding and Grimsby Railway, this section now known as the Wakefield Line. It served the village o…

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  Nostell Miners Welfare F.C. · 1.3 km

  Nostell Miners Welfare Football Club is an English football club based in New Crofton, West Yorkshire. The club are currently members of the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League Premier Division, Yorkshire Ama…

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  Crofton railway station · 1.3 km

  Crofton Station was the smaller of two stations serving Crofton. It was next to Doncaster Road, on the current Pontefract Line, behind the Crofton Arms Public House.

• Crofton TMD · 1.5 km

  Crofton Depot is a traction maintenance depot located in Crofton, West Yorkshire, England. The depot is situated on the Wakefield Line and Pontefract Line at the eastern end of Crofton Junction and is located near the…

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