Bilston Street Wolverhampton

48 addresses across 11 postcodes (WV1,WV2), about 400 m (0.2 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 44804580.

  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are 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 A; Band D in Wolverhampton costs £2,539 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 80% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wolverhampton, about 500 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, St Peter's Gardens, is about 440 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 137 to 156 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 46 of its 52 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Thornley Street Surgery, about 570 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 21% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 823 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 Wolverhampton in 2026-27: Band D £2,539 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,693£1,975£2,257£2,539£3,103£3,667£4,232£5,078

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (64% of about 4,070 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 4 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 1.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 1 October 2026 to 2 October 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 29 September 2026 to 30 September 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 29 September 2026 to 30 September 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 3 September 2026 to 7 September 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 30 August 2026 to 9 September 2026: Transport for West Midlands - Passenger Transport Executive, Permanent reinstatement, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 30 August 2026 to 9 September 2026: Transport for West Midlands - Passenger Transport Executive, Permanent reinstatement, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 23 August 2026 to 24 August 2026: Transport for West Midlands - Passenger Transport Executive, Works for road purposes, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 6 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WV1 3AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WV2 4HDnot in 2 or 3
WV1 3AGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WV1 3JNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WV2 1BFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WV1 3AXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WV1 3EYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WV2 1AZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WV1 3HFnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 5 unlikely
WV1 3HQnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WV2 2ADnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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 52 addresses are between 137 m and 156 m above sea level (153 m on average); the ground rises about 19 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
WV1 3AA100%100%100%0%
WV1 3AG80%80%80%0%
WV1 3AX100%100%100%0%
WV1 3EY100%100%100%0%
WV1 3HF100%100%100%0%
WV1 3HQ100%100%100%0%
WV1 3JN100%100%100%0%
WV2 1AZ83%83%83%0%
WV2 1BF100%100%100%0%
WV2 2AD100%100%100%0%
WV2 4HD100%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 stationsWolverhampton 5.2 million journeys in 2024–25500 m (0.3 miles)
Coseley 520,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bilbrook 139,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWolverhampton St George's (West Midlands Metro)120 m
Pipers Row (West Midlands Metro)170 m
The Royal (West Midlands Metro)420 m (0.3 miles)
Bus stops28 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 87 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Hall Street Wolverhampton80 m
Bus or coach stationWolverhampton Bus Station160 m
Car parks15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Combined Parking Solutions340 m
EV charging points15 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station160 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX29.2 km (18 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 Thornley Street Surgery570 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots310 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery320 m
HospitalWolverhamptom Recovery Hospital Prescriber640 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationBilston Street Police Station130 m
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone280 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Peter's Gardens 3,320 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,820 m²770 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Central Library, a listed building (Grade II*), 190 m west. 126 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 10 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Central LibraryListed building, Grade II*190 m west
Former Wolverhampton County CourtListed building, Grade II*230 m north-west
Catholic Church of St Mary and St JohnListed building, Grade II*310 m south-west
Grand TheatreListed building, Grade II*320 m north
Anglian cross 25m south of St Peter's Collegiate ChurchScheduled monument500 m (0.3 miles) north-west
West ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Horseley Fields JunctionLake or reservoir660 m (0.4 miles) east
Wolverhampton LocksLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Stowlawn WoodWood2.3 km (1.5 miles) east
Park HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Park CoppiceWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
The GorgeValley4.4 km (2.7 miles) south

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)16.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)13.44015

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
70 to 7450
65 to 6910
60 to 64120
55 to 592810
Under 55642

46 of the street's 52 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 10 from railways, 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 Wolverhampton: see them on the Wolverhampton 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
SS Mary and John's Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thomas Telford University Technical CollegeSecondary11–19920 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Grove Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Eastfield Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Graiseley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Eastfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton SikhPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woden Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
West Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Stephen's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Luke's Church of England Aided Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Lily C's WV1 3LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
Novotel Wolverhampton WV1 3JNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house160 m5 Very good9 Mar 2026
YMCA @ City Gateway Nursery Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good29 Apr 2025
Compton Care Coffee Shop WV2 1BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
K Teas Cakes WV2 1BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good18 Feb 2025
Rosie Rebels WV1 3ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good17 Apr 2025
Delight African Restaurant Services Limited WV1 3AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good24 Feb 2026
The Wheatsheaf WV1 3AEPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good15 Sep 2025
Milano WV1 3AETakeaway/sandwich shop230 m4 Good10 Nov 2025
Subway WV1 3AETakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good8 Sep 2026
Goodness WV1 3AYOther catering premises230 mExempt
Premier Retail Store WV1 3BJRetailers - other230 m4 Good18 Jun 2026
Peacebito Coffee House WV1 3BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good18 Feb 2025
The Mountain Bar And Grill WV1 3BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Afro City Ltd WV1 3AERetailers - other240 m3 Generally satisfactory26 May 2026

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.

823 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences309
Shoplifting116
Public order80
Drugs80
Criminal damage and arson60
Other theft45
Anti-social behaviour38
Bicycle theft23
Theft from the person17
Possession of weapons17
Burglary15
Robbery11
Vehicle crime8
Other crime4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Police Station (296); On or near Market Street (233); On or near Union Street (114); On or near Shopping Area (41); On or near Nightclub (39).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,329 residents in 542 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 age3140
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)21%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented41%17%
Private rented38%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)17%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus20%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)69%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 1 October 2026 to 2 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility asset works, 28 October 2026 to 30 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 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.

  • WV1 3AA: 21 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • WV2 4HD: 7 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • WV1 3AG: 5 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • WV1 3JN: 3 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • WV2 1BF: 3 addresses of 92 in the postcode
  • WV1 3AX: 2 addresses of 4 in the postcode
  • WV1 3EY: 2 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • WV2 1AZ: 2 addresses of 57 in the postcode
  • WV1 3HF: 1 address of 18 in the postcode
  • WV1 3HQ: 1 address of 2 in the postcode
  • WV2 2AD: 1 address of 31 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St George's Parade · Old Hall Street · Stafford Street · Tower Street · Garrick Street · Piper's Row · Little Park Street · Castle Street · Tempest Street · Tramway Drive · Market Street · Horseley Fields

All the streets in WV1, WV2 and across Wolverhampton.

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.