WF5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

664 of the district's 838 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 53.68049, -1.57645, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WF5

Companies House lists 1,617 companies with a registered office in WF5; 197 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for WF5

• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Wakefield
• Ossett
• Kirklees

Roads filed under WF5

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Albert Drive
• Albion Croft
• Ashbrook Close
• Ash Close
• Ashleigh Gardens
• Ashmore Drive
• Ashwood Court
• Aston Court
• Athold Drive
• Athold Street
• Audrey Street
• Avon Croft
• Back Lane
• Bankfield Close
• Bank Street
• Bank Yard
• Baptist Lane
• Barmby Close
• Barmby Crescent
• Barmby Fold
• Beech Court
• Belgrave Avenue
• Belgrave Mews
• Belgrave Street
• Bellway Court
• Berryfield Garth
• Birchen Avenue
• Blue Butts
• Brammer Close
• Branstone Grove
• Bretby Avenue
• Bridle Avenue
• Bridle Lane
• Bridle Place
• Broadacre Road
• Broadgate
• Broadheads Yard
• Broadowler Lane
• Broad View
• Broadwell Road
• Brook Close
• Brookdale Avenue
• Brooklands Court
• Brook Street
• Broomcroft Road
• Cadley Hill Close
• Calder Close
• Calder Veiw
• Calder View
• Calverts Walk
• Cardigan Lane
• Carlton Court
• Cavewell Close
• Cavewell Gardens
• Cedar Avenue
• Chancery Court
• Chancery Lane
• Chancery Road
• Chapel Street
• Charles Street

Check an address in WF5

Check an address in WF5

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WF5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WF5

What does a WF5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WF5 district of the WF (Wakefield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Ossett. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 664 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest WF5

• WF122.9 km
• WF24.3 km
• WF134.8 km
• WF45.3 km
• WF15.5 km
• WF905.7 km
• WF35.9 km
• WF176.1 km
• WF167.0 km
• LS277.8 km
• WF147.9 km
• WF158.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids