Pontefract North
WardNorth east Wakefield. About 18,701 people in 12 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Pontefract North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Pontefract North compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Pontefract North safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Pontefract North at a rate of 102.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 116.1 per 1,000 people across Wakefield.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 196 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Pontefract North.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (820), other crime (311) and anti-social behaviour (256).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Wakefield
These figures are published for the whole of Wakefield, not for each ward, so they describe all of Wakefield and not Pontefract North alone. See Wakefield
Pontefract North in brief
Pontefract North had 17,613 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Pontefract North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Pontefract North, 82.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Pontefract North, 3.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.