100 addresses across 37 postcodes (WF1), about 280 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 41800408.
Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £155,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 4, E: 6).
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 A; Band D in Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Wakefield Westgate, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Coronation Gardens, is about 140 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 54 to 57 m above sea level.
Noise: 60 of its 100 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is New Southgate Surgery, about 710 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 1,310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 27% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 204 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.
Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
Year
Sales
Median price
Lowest
Highest
2025
1
£155,000
£155,000
£155,000
2020
1
£150,000
£150,000
£150,000
2019
1
£250,000
£250,000
£250,000
2008
1
£245,000
£245,000
£245,000
2007
4
£65,000
£54,500
£65,000
2006
2
£262,500
£225,000
£300,000
2005
1
£238,500
£238,500
£238,500
2004
1
£235,000
£235,000
£235,000
2003
3
£172,000
£150,000
£215,000
2002
1
£150,000
£150,000
£150,000
2000
1
£120,000
£120,000
£120,000
1998
3
£115,000
£78,950
£120,000
Most recent sales (31)
Date
Address
Type
Price
Notes
27 Mar 2026
44 WF1 2QP
Terraced
£172,500
Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Feb 2025
36 WF1 2QP
Flat or maisonette
£155,000
Leasehold.
2 Nov 2023
APARTMENT A, 42 WF1 2QR
Flat or maisonette
£43,000
Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Nov 2023
APARTMENT B, 42 WF1 2QR
Flat or maisonette
£38,500
Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Nov 2023
APARTMENT C, 42 WF1 2QR
Flat or maisonette
£38,000
Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Nov 2023
APARTMENT D, 42 WF1 2QR
Flat or maisonette
£37,500
Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 2023
24 WF1 2QP
Terraced
£425,000
Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jul 2021
20 WF1 2QP
Other
£190,000
Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 59 m².
Most common: Flat (12); House, mid-terrace (4). Built: 1900-1929 (8); before 1900 (7); 2012 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (9); owner-occupied (6).
What each band costs in Wakefield in 2026-27: Band D £2,297 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
£1,531
£1,786
£2,042
£2,297
£2,807
£3,318
£3,828
£4,594
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (49% of about 2,920 homes).
A49%
B28%
C13%
D6%
E3%
G<1%
F1%
H0%
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 3 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: 7.
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.
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
11 January 2027 to 15 January 2027: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works, permit applied for)
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, 1 at medium risk and 31 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.
Postcode
Planning zone
Addresses at high / medium / low risk
Groundwater
WF1 2QP
not in 2 or 3
0 / 1 / 2
unlikely
WF1 2QR
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
WF1 2QW
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 3QS
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
WF1 9TF
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9ZW
not in 2 or 3
WF1 2HW
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 2QJ
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
WF1 9SA
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SB
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SD
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SE
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SF
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SH
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SJ
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SL
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SN
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SP
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SQ
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SR
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SS
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9ST
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SU
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SW
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SX
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SY
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9SZ
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9TA
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9TB
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9TD
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9TE
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9TG
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9TH
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
unlikely
WF1 9ZT
not in 2 or 3
WF1 9ZU
not in 2 or 3
WF1 9ZX
not in 2 or 3
WF1 9ZZ
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 1
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.
The street's 100 addresses are between 54 m and 57 m above sea level (55 m on average).
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)
Postcode
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)
Gigabit
Below 10 Mbit/s
WF1 2HW
100%
100%
100%
0%
WF1 2QJ
100%
0%
0%
0%
WF1 2QP
92%
92%
92%
0%
WF1 2QR
100%
100%
100%
0%
WF1 2QW
100%
0%
0%
0%
WF1 3QS
100%
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.
Nearest
Distance
Railway stations
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25
420 m (0.3 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–25
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Sandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–25
3 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops
13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 57 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wentworth Street Girls High School St Johns
10 m
Bus or coach station
Wakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre
330 m
Car parks
3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Car Park
320 m
EV charging points
11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station
190 m
Airport with scheduled flights
Leeds Bradford Airport LBA
22.5 km (14 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.
Nearest
Distance
GP surgeries
5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New Southgate Surgery
710 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies
7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots
650 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists
11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Newstead House (Dental Surgery)
20 m
Hospital
Pinderfields Hospital
1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police station
National Police Air Service HQ
90 m
Cash machines
7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Storey Amusements Cashzone
320 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.
Nearest
Distance
Park or garden
4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coronation Gardens 1,700 m²
140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)
Balne Lane Fields 7.6 ha
440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area
1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed650 m²
340 m
Playing field
Unnamed3.0 ha
870 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments
1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Johns Allotment Gardens 7,690 m²
580 m (0.4 miles)
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 8.9 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is County Hall (Offices of West Yorkshire County Council), a listed building (Grade I), 220 m south. 131 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 13 of them Grade II*.
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)
Pollutant
Here
UK limit
WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
12.0
40
10
Fine particles (PM2.5)
7.2
20
5
Particles (PM10)
11.6
40
15
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)
Level
Road traffic
Railways
60 to 64
3
0
55 to 59
57
0
Under 55
40
100
60 of the street's 100 addresses are 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 Wakefield: see them on the Wakefield 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.
School
Phase
Ages
Distance
Inspection
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group
16 plus
16–99
180 m
No published inspection
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant School
Primary
4–11
490 m (0.3 miles)
No published inspection
CAPA College
16 plus
16–19
530 m (0.3 miles)
No published inspection
St Austin's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic
Primary
4–11
790 m (0.5 miles)
No published inspection
Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) School
Primary
3–11
910 m (0.6 miles)
No published inspection
Wakefield Lawefield Primary School
Primary
3–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill
Primary
3–11
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Primary
2–11
1.2 km (0.8 miles)
No published inspection
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant School
Primary
3–11
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newton Hill Community School
Primary
3–11
1.4 km (0.9 miles)
No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy Park Hill
Primary
3–11
1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's CofE Academy Church of England
Primary
2–11
1.8 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 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.
Business
Type
Distance
Rating
Rated
Holroyd Howe Ltd @ Wakefield Girls High School 6th Form WF1 2QS
School/college/university
30 m
5 Very good
11 Feb 2025
Holroyd Howe Ltd @ WF1 2QS
School/college/university
30 m
5 Very good
11 Feb 2025
The Gallery @ Meadowcroft Secondary Site WF1 3QW
School/college/university
70 m
5 Very good
14 Mar 2024
Gaskells Restaurant WF1 2DH
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
100 m
5 Very good
15 Mar 2024
Sandwich & Co WF1 3BY
Retailers - other
170 m
5 Very good
19 Mar 2025
College Inn WF1 3QT
Pub/bar/nightclub
170 m
5 Very good
20 Jan 2025
Northgate Stores WF1 3QT
Retailers - other
180 m
5 Very good
9 Jan 2018
Starbucks WF1 2DH
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
180 m
5 Very good
21 Jul 2025
go! WF1 2DH
Other catering premises
180 m
5 Very good
16 Oct 2024
Cliff Hill Day Nursery WF1 2DJ
School/college/university
190 m
5 Very good
23 Feb 2026
Graham Eyes High Class Butchers Ltd @ Spar WF1 2RD
Retailers - other
220 m
5 Very good
15 Jan 2026
Spar WF1 2RD
Retailers - other
220 m
5 Very good
13 Jan 2025
Taste of Dosa WF1 3BX
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
230 m
3 Generally satisfactory
5 Mar 2026
Create Cafe WF1 2EB
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
250 m
5 Very good
12 Feb 2026
Viva Pizza WF1 3AY
Takeaway/sandwich shop
280 m
5 Very good
24 Sep 2024
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.
204 recorded crimes by category
Category
Crimes
Violence and sexual offences
100
Criminal damage and arson
24
Anti-social behaviour
17
Other theft
15
Public order
12
Drugs
11
Burglary
9
Vehicle crime
4
Possession of weapons
3
Other crime
3
Robbery
3
Theft from the person
2
Bicycle theft
1
Most of these are attached to: On or near Arundel Close (81); On or near Bond Street (46); On or near Wentworth Terrace (17); On or near Howard Street (16); On or near Cardigan Terrace (12).
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: 1,311 residents in 749 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 street
England
Median age
32
40
Children under 15
9%
17%
Aged 65 and over
7%
18%
Homes
Around this street
England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)
27%
61%
Owned outright
11%
33%
Shared ownership
under 1%
1%
Social rented
6%
17%
Private rented
67%
21%
Work and commuting
Around this street
England
Adults (16 and over) in work
72%
57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)
7%
6%
Retired (of adults)
7%
22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)
3%
4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)
31%
32%
Travel to work by car or van
37%
48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram
4%
4%
By any public transport, including bus
11%
8%
On foot or by bicycle
17%
10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)
64%
65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away
5%
8%
Education and languages
Around this street
England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)
40%
34%
No qualifications
17%
18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification
5%
5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)
81%
91%
Cannot speak English well or at all
5%
2%
Deprivation
The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 9 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: YORKSHIRE WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 11 January 2027 to 15 January 2027 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
Food hygiene ratings Carers Wakefield & District (other catering premises, WF1 2SR) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 3 November 2026
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.
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.