Back Karnac Road Leeds

1 address across 1 postcode (LS8), about 150 m long, classed as a secondary access road. USRN 23001093.

  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 A; Band D in Leeds costs £2,284 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Leeds, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 380 m away, and Gledhow Park (30 hectares) is about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 56 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 Harehills Corner Surgery, about 200 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 688 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. 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 Leeds in 2026-27: Band D £2,284 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,522£1,776£2,030£2,284£2,791£3,299£3,806£4,567

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (99% of about 730 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): A4D01.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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 31 October 2026

  • 4 January 2027 to 25 January 2027: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility asset works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 4 January 2027 to 25 January 2027: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility asset works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 56 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
LS8 5BQ100%100%100%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 stationsLeeds 27 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Burley Park 756,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Cross Gates 474,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harehills Nice View80 m
Bus or coach stationLeeds City Bus Station Leeds City Centre2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksBeckett Street Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA11 km (6.8 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harehills Corner Surgery200 m
Pharmacies18 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roundhay Pharmacy110 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Meliora Dental Limited310 m
HospitalSt James' Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationStainbeck Police Station2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Connect at Hamza Cashzone110 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha380 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Gledhow Park 30 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 610 m²390 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.7 ha840 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Toll Bar Fields Allotment Gardens 6,470 m²240 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 45 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Aidan, a listed building (Grade II*), 530 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St AidanListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Beckett Street CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Late prehistoric enclosed settlements in Gipton Wood, at the southern end of Oakwood DriveScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Roundhay ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gledhow Valley WoodsWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Gipton WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
The LakeLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Bracken Hills WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Miles HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) west
The GorgeValley3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-east

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)16.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
55 to 5910
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 Leeds: see them on the Leeds page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Hovingham Primary SchoolPrimary2–11450 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bankside Primary SchoolPrimary2–11450 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Harehills Primary SchoolPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Hillcrest AcademyPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bracken Edge Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Co-op Academy WoodlandsPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Co-op Academy NightingalePrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Rosary and St Anne's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Dixons Trinity ChapeltownAll-through4–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Co-op Academy OakwoodPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kerr Mackie Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Magazin Romanesc LS8 5RLRetailers - other70 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
KFC (Roundhay) LS8 5RLTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m5 Very good3 May 2025
Roundhay Supermarket LS8 5RLRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets70 m5 Very good14 Mar 2016
Rajas Pizza LS8 5RLTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Sep 2025
Leeds Top Pizza LS8 5RLTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m4 Good11 Mar 2026
Nafees Bakeries LS8 5HRRetailers - other90 m5 Very good27 Aug 2024
K And B Stores LS8 5HRRetailers - other90 m4 Good15 Feb 2016
DFC Takeaway LS8 5HRTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m2 Improvement necessary19 Jan 2026
Papa Knafeh LS8 5HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
ABDI Cafe LS8 5PBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Oct 2024
Afghan Miami Store/Harehills Express LS8 5PBRetailers - other100 mAwaiting inspection
ABYS LS8 4HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 mAwaiting inspection
Abaseen Superstore LS8 3QERetailers - other110 m4 Good1 Mar 2023
Harehills Post Office LS8 4HSRetailers - other110 m5 Very good25 Jun 2019
Barakah Fish Bazar LS8 4HSRetailers - other110 m5 Very good25 Jun 2019

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.

688 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences324
Drugs59
Public order54
Criminal damage and arson40
Other theft37
Other crime37
Anti-social behaviour35
Vehicle crime25
Robbery24
Burglary19
Possession of weapons13
Bicycle theft10
Theft from the person7
Shoplifting4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (112); On or near Lambton Grove (86); On or near Back Milan Street (40); On or near Back Hill Top Mount (38); On or near Easterly Grove (37).

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: 518 residents in 131 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 age2940
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented31%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications35%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)68%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all12%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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.

  • LS8 5BQ: 1 address of 60 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Karnac Road · Rossall Road · Rossall Grove · Back Nice View · Back Rossall Road · Nice View · Harehills Road · Nice Street · Nice Avenue · Luxor Road · Back Lambton Grove · Lambton Grove

All the streets in LS8 and across Leeds.

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.