Clarence Walk Wakefield

25 addresses across 1 postcode (WF2), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41805863.

  • Sales: 61 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £277,500 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wakefield cost £199,283 in August 2026 (+2.9% on a year); private rents averaged £810 a month.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 6, E: 11, F: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: Its postcode is in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Westgate Brickworks, is 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 89 times (217 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A638, carries 32,835 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wakefield Westgate, about 900 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Thornes Park, is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 27 to 28 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Homestead, about 630 m (0.4 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 187 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20242£277,500£270,000£285,000
20231£250,000£250,000£250,000
20221£280,000£280,000£280,000
20211£275,000£275,000£275,000
20202£225,250£202,500£248,000
20191£212,000£212,000£212,000
20172£195,500£192,000£199,000
20161£210,000£210,000£210,000
20151£160,500£160,500£160,500
20141£189,250£189,250£189,250
20131£189,000£189,000£189,000
20121£165,000£165,000£165,000
All 61 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Nov 20231 WF2 8UDDetached£250,000
4 Apr 20001 WF2 8UDDetached£95,000
6 Jul 19991 WF2 8UDDetached£89,995New build.
5 Jul 20242 WF2 8UDDetached£285,000
2 Jun 20172 WF2 8UDDetached£192,000
19 Aug 20032 WF2 8UDDetached£132,500
2 Jul 20012 WF2 8UDDetached£89,000
11 Jun 19992 WF2 8UDDetached£84,000New build.
17 Jul 20153 WF2 8UDDetached£160,500
1 Aug 20053 WF2 8UDDetached£180,000
24 Jun 20053 WF2 8UDDetached£182,500
28 Aug 19983 WF2 8UDDetached£92,995New build.
22 Jan 20244 WF2 8UDDetached£270,000
7 Jun 20024 WF2 8UDDetached£97,000
29 Jul 19994 WF2 8UDDetached£75,000New build.
17 Oct 20125 WF2 8UDDetached£165,000
10 Feb 20065 WF2 8UDDetached£190,000
30 Jun 19985 WF2 8UDDetached£112,995New build.
20 Dec 20026 WF2 8UDDetached£149,950
30 Jul 19996 WF2 8UDDetached£107,995New build.
10 Oct 20087 WF2 8UDDetached£175,000
28 Oct 19997 WF2 8UDDetached£86,995New build.
19 Jul 20028 WF2 8UDDetached£92,950
7 Sep 19998 WF2 8UDDetached£83,995New build.
30 Jun 20089 WF2 8UDDetached£208,000
27 Nov 199810 WF2 8UDDetached£86,995New build.
30 Apr 199911 WF2 8UDDetached£113,995New build.
12 Feb 202112 WF2 8UDDetached£275,000
30 Jan 201412 WF2 8UDDetached£189,250
7 Jun 200212 WF2 8UDDetached£136,000
31 Mar 199912 WF2 8UDDetached£109,500New build.
11 Aug 200014 WF2 8UDDetached£95,000
20 Aug 199914 WF2 8UDDetached£99,995New build.
30 Sep 200415 WF2 8UDDetached£220,000
11 Aug 199915 WF2 8UDDetached£123,995New build.
27 Nov 199816 WF2 8UDDetached£104,995New build.
29 Mar 200417 WF2 8UDDetached£185,000
28 Aug 199817 WF2 8UDDetached£104,995New build.
7 Oct 202218 WF2 8UDDetached£280,000
12 Jul 201918 WF2 8UDDetached£212,000
19 Oct 201718 WF2 8UDDetached£199,000
21 Aug 199818 WF2 8UDDetached£86,995New build.
19 Jan 200719 WF2 8UDDetached£180,000
28 Oct 200319 WF2 8UDDetached£160,500
27 Feb 200219 WF2 8UDDetached£109,000
19 Feb 199919 WF2 8UDDetached£92,995New build.
30 Apr 200220 WF2 8UDDetached£125,000
21 Dec 199820 WF2 8UDDetached£105,000New build.
5 Feb 202021 WF2 8UDDetached£202,500
30 Jun 199821 WF2 8UDDetached£86,995New build.
18 Jan 201322 WF2 8UDDetached£189,000
18 Sep 199822 WF2 8UDDetached£114,995New build.
29 Jun 202023 WF2 8UDDetached£248,000
11 Jan 200723 WF2 8UDDetached£246,000
23 Apr 200323 WF2 8UDDetached£158,000
2 Aug 199923 WF2 8UDDetached£99,995New build.
15 Jan 201625 WF2 8UDDetached£210,000
15 Jul 200525 WF2 8UDDetached£203,000
26 Mar 199925 WF2 8UDDetached£112,995New build.
11 Oct 200227 WF2 8UDDetached£139,950
13 Aug 199927 WF2 8UDDetached£89,995New build.

House prices and rents in Wakefield

A typical home in Wakefield cost £199,283 in August 2026, 2.9% more than a year before. That is 19% more than five years earlier and 54% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£314,988
Semi-detached£200,459
Terraced£159,794
Flat or maisonette£100,645
Bought by a first-time buyer£178,078

Private renters in Wakefield paid £810 a month on average in September 2026, 5.9% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£579
Two bedrooms£730
Three bedrooms£874
Four or more bedrooms£1,224

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 dates from June 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 116 m². Most common: House, detached (22). Built: 1996-2002 (21); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22).

Each home's certificates and sales (22 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,341 kWh of it on average in 2024, 26% more than the district's 11,377 kWh, and 4,023 kWh of electricity, 32% more than the district's 3,044 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WF2.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,531£1,786£2,042£2,297£2,807£3,318£3,828£4,594

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (61% of about 980 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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 21 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 23 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 20 low and 3 very low.

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 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 89 times, for 217 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Culverted Trib of Chald Beck, Tributary of the River Calder, Gill Syke, Alverthorpe Beck.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Clayton Hill Cso Yorkshire Water Culverted Trib of Chald Beck 0 0 550 m (0.3 miles)
Whinney Moor Pub House Cso Yorkshire Water Tributary of the River Calder 26 49 640 m (0.4 miles)
Waterton Road Cso Yorkshire Water Gill Syke 56 159 660 m (0.4 miles)
Thornes Road Junction Cso Yorkshire Water; monitored 83% of the year Gill Syke 4 9 670 m (0.4 miles)
New Scarborough Cso Yorkshire Water; monitored 85% of the year Alverthorpe Beck 0 0 730 m (0.5 miles)
Derwent Road No 2 Cso Yorkshire Water Alverthorpe Beck 3 1 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

This postcode is in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 400 m (0.2 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Westgate Brickworks Dewsbury Road, Wakefield 1975 to 1986 Inert, industrial, commercial, household 400 m (0.2 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 25 addresses are between 27 m and 28 m above sea level (28 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)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WF2 8UD100%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 stationsWakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25900 m (0.6 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Sandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park Grove Road Flanshaw70 m
Bus or coach stationWakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Car park-Wakefield630 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge140 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA23.1 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Homestead Good Oct 2016630 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Horbury Road Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery420 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalPinderfields Hospital Requires improvement Mar 20242.5 km (1.5 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Avalon Clarence Gardens Good Oct 2026280 m
Police stationPolice & Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westgate Mini Market360 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 Thornes Park 45 ha100 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,430 m²180 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha350 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha300 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 63 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Thornes Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 510 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 31 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II510 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Austin HouseListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) south-east
138-148 WestgateListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) north-east
136, WestgateListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) north-east
The former Milnes' Orangery, formerly the Unitarian Chapel HallListed building, Grade II*920 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Wakefield BridgeScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Calder IslandIsland1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Thornes CutLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south
BobLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Stennard IslandIsland1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Park HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Old Hall WoodWood3 km (1.9 miles) 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)12.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 59120
Under 551325

12 of the street's 25 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), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Wakefield Lawefield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m No published inspection 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Trinity Academy Cathedral Church of EnglandSecondary11–16820 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 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; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 50.9 (48.7 in 2025 and 47.0 in 2024); 53.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
St Michael's CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 80% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
CAPA College16 plus16–191 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B+; 0% AAB or better; progress well above average
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 46% in 2024 and 36% in 2023)
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 8.6% AAB or better; progress below average
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 39% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 49% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 41% in 2023)
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 34% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.3 km (0.8 miles); the nearest is 400 m (0.2 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Learners Lawefield WF2 8ST Full day care 40 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 400 m (0.2 miles)
Children's Club WF2 8QZ Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 510 m (0.3 miles)
Rks Brightsparks WF2 0DP Sessional day care 27 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Wakefield Day Nursery WF1 1DL Full day care 102 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
New Life Pre-School Daycare Centre WF1 1DL Full day care 40 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Childcare @ Sunbeam WF2 8RH Sessional day care 36 Nov 2025: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 5 1 km (0.6 miles)
Toybox Private Nursery Ltd WF1 1DD Full day care 101 Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cliff Hill Day Nursery WF1 2DJ Full day care 75 Outstanding (Aug 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Rks Brightsparks At Lupset WF2 8NS Sessional day care 18 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Kip McGrath Wakefield West WF1 2QP Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 190 childminders and 13 home childcarers (nannies) in Wakefield. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Westgate Common Working Mens Club WF2 8TWPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good21 Jun 2019
Pepe's Piri Piri WF2 8TURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Sun Mini Market WF2 8TURetailers - other100 m5 Very good23 Jul 2024
Mother Hubbards WF2 8TUTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m4 Good30 Jul 2026
Sun Park WF2 8TUTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
Pizza Hut Delivery Wakefield WF2 8TUTakeaway/sandwich shop100 mAwaiting inspection
Domino's Pizza WF2 8UBTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good5 Sep 2025
Redoubt WF2 8TSPub/bar/nightclub180 mAwaiting inspection
Cross Lane Mini Mart WF2 8BQRetailers - other210 m4 Good13 Aug 2025
Morrisons WF2 9BLRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good8 Sep 2026
St Michaels Cricket Club WF2 9BLOther catering premises210 m5 Very good1 Jul 2013
McDonalds Restaurant WF2 9BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good9 Mar 2026
ASDA (4506) WF2 9BLRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good1 Dec 2025
Poundstretcher WF2 9BLRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m4 Good20 Mar 2019
Wakefield District City of Sanctuary Food Store WF2 9RWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good30 Apr 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.

187 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences65
Anti-social behaviour27
Other theft16
Public order16
Shoplifting16
Criminal damage and arson14
Burglary9
Robbery7
Drugs6
Other crime4
Vehicle crime3
Possession of weapons2
Bicycle theft1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Manor Road (32); On or near Parking Area (28); On or near Harcourt Street (26); On or near Castle Street (24); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (21).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 5 slight. 2 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 40% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202120
202220
202310
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
19 Mar 2023 18:35 Slight 1 person A642, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
23 Jul 2022 11:45 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
19 May 2022 18:38 Slight 1 person A642, 30 mph Daylight
1 Dec 2021 20:56 Slight 1 person A642, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
30 Apr 2021 14:50 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child A642, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A638 between A642 and A638 Ings Road, with 32,835 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 410 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A642 Bridge Rd, Horbury to A638 15,866 estimated; counted 2024 1% -11% since 2015 240 m
A638 A642 to A638 Ings Road 32,835 counted 2025 1% +4% since 2015 410 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 266 residents in 128 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 age4040
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Pizza Piazzo (takeaway/sandwich shop, WF2 9RL) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 27 October 2026) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • WF2 8UD: 25 addresses of 27 in the postcode

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.