West YorkshireBusiness Guide

Businesses in Wakefield

A cathedral city with a logistics and distribution economy shaped by the M1 and M62, plus a compact professional services centre.

District
City of Wakefield
County
West Yorkshire
Postcodes
WF1, WF2, WF4
In the Guide
27 businesses across 21 sectors

Wakefield as a business town

Wakefield’s position on the M1 and close to the M62 has made it one of the country’s distribution centres, and much of the district’s business services economy exists to serve that: fleet, facilities, commercial property and industrial trades.

The city centre carries a smaller but long-established professional cluster, and the wider district — Pontefract, Castleford, Normanton — has its own independent trades economy that rarely appears in Leeds-focused directories.