A44 Worcester

1 address across 1 postcode (WR2), about 300 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 45001657.

  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Worcester costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Worcester Foregate Street, about 550 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cripplegate Park, is about 60 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 14 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Severn Valley Medical Practice, about 620 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 59% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 192 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Worcester in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,010£4,812

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (35% of about 680 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Riverside (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 18 October 2026 to 19 October 2026: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway (major (paa) works)
  • 18 October 2026 to 19 October 2026: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway (major works)
  • 19 October 2026 to 7 November 2026: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway, verge (major (paa) works)
  • 19 October 2026 to 9 November 2026: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway, verge (major works)
  • 8 November 2026 to 9 November 2026: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 8 November 2026 to 9 November 2026: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 6 September 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Remedial works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's address is about 14 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WR2 4RL0%0%0%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWorcester Foregate Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–25550 m (0.3 miles)
Worcester Shrub Hill 577,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Worcestershire Parkway 456,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Hive Worcester270 m
Bus or coach stationWorcester Bus Station220 m
Car parks9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Copenhagen Street Car Park200 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station290 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX43.8 km (27 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Severn Valley Medical Practice620 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots330 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery510 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalUhcw Worcester Spire Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationWorcester Police Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hsbc ATM360 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cripplegate Park 4.9 ha60 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²210 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 14 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Comer Avenue Allotments 4,050 m²800 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 5.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 170 m north-east. 507 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 12 of them Grade I and 33 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*170 m north-east
St Andrew's Church TowerListed building, Grade II*220 m east
Worcester city centreScheduled monument250 m east
City walls: section S of The Butts, extending 100ft (30m) E from Rack AlleyScheduled monument270 m north
Huntingdon HallListed building, Grade II*280 m east
St Alban's ChurchScheduled monument280 m east
The Old PalaceListed building, Grade I310 m south-east
Gheluvelt ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642Registered battlefield2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Woodside CoppiceWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Perry WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Gorse HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Grove Farm ReservoirLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Ketch CoppiceWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) south
Bevere IslandIsland4.8 km (3 miles) north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
75 dB or more10
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Worcester: see them on the Worcester page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Clement's CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary2–11620 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Christopher Whitehead Language CollegeSecondary11–18730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic PrimaryPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Stanley Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oldbury Park Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Pitmaston Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St George's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St George's CofE Primary School Worcester Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bishop Perowne CofE College Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Red Hill CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cherry Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Yeliz Turkish Restaurant WR1 3NNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good23 Jan 2026
Browns At The Quay WR1 2JNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good25 Oct 2024
Ejire Foods Uk WR1 3NRRetailers - other110 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Worcestershire Cricket Foundation WR2 4QQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 mAwaiting inspection
Worcestershire County Cricket Club WR2 4QQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Apr 2026
Severn View Hotel & Bar WR1 3NSPub/bar/nightclub150 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Jul 2026
Massalla Lounge WR1 3NHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m4 Good6 Jul 2026
Worcester Grill -King Doner Kebab- Rooster's Fried Chicken-Dial A Curry - Pizz Guys - Tempt'd WR1 3NHTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Jul 2026
Teaon By Chef Jerin WR1 3NHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good2 Sep 2026
Aldi WR2 5BARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets200 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
Trio WR1 3LRRetailers - other210 m5 Very good30 Jul 2025
Iceland WR1 3LERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets270 m5 Very good9 Jan 2025
Boston Tea Party WR1 3NFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good17 Dec 2025
Bills WR1 3LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026
Coffee Dough WR1 3LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

192 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences76
Anti-social behaviour34
Public order24
Criminal damage and arson13
Shoplifting10
Burglary9
Bicycle theft8
Drugs7
Other theft3
Possession of weapons3
Vehicle crime2
Other crime2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (81); On or near Malthouse Place (25); On or near Moreton Place (24); On or near Bridge Street (23); On or near Hood Street (13).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 319 residents in 147 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4540
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)59%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented32%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Five Guys (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WR1 2BY) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 28 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings All Bar One Worcester (pub/bar/nightclub, WR1 2BY) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 29 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Keystones Cocktail Club (pub/bar/nightclub, WR1 2HB) now Exempt, was 4 Good found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • WR2 4RL: 1 address of 4 in the postcode

Nearby streets

South Parade · Hood Street · Bridge Street · North Parade · Newport Street · Warmstry Court · Quay Street · All Saints' Road · North Quay · Moreton Place · Dolday · Malthouse Place

All the streets in WR2 and across Worcester.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.