Finchfield Gardens Wolverhampton

37 addresses across 2 postcodes (WV3), about 390 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 44818370.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £430,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (D: 7, E: 6, F: 3, G: 1).
  • 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 E; Band D in Wolverhampton costs £2,539 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wolverhampton, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bantock Park, is about 180 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 128 to 130 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 37 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Newbridge Surgery, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 51% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 17 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)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20243£430,000£401,884£580,000
20191£318,000£318,000£318,000
20182£374,000£353,000£395,000
20171£445,000£445,000£445,000
20161£425,000£425,000£425,000
20144£305,750£297,500£400,000
20124£318,500£232,200£420,000
20111£430,000£430,000£430,000
20102£441,750£431,000£452,500
20081£395,000£395,000£395,000
20071£249,995£249,995£249,995
20062£390,000£285,000£495,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Nov 2024THE DORMERS WV3 9LTDetached£580,000
26 Jul 20241 WV3 9LTDetached£401,884
22 Mar 202437 WV3 9LTDetached£430,000
29 Aug 20197 WV3 9LTSemi-detached£318,000
31 Aug 20185 WV3 9LTSemi-detached£353,000
17 Jul 2018TUDOR VILLA WV3 9LTDetached£395,000
14 Mar 2017DUTCH HOUSE WV3 9LTDetached£445,000
28 Jul 2016THE DORMERS WV3 9LTDetached£425,000
12 Dec 201411 WV3 9LTDetached£305,000
29 Sep 2014FAIRWAYS WV3 9LTDetached£306,500
1 May 201411 WV3 9LTDetached£297,500
24 Jan 2014SUNDOR WV3 9LTDetached£400,000
8 Oct 2012HOLLY HOUSE WV3 9LTDetached£345,000
8 Oct 2012THE GREY COTTAGE WV3 9LTDetached£292,000
27 Jun 201212 WV3 9LTDetached£420,000
27 Apr 20123 WV3 9LTSemi-detached£232,200
11 Apr 2011RIVINGTON WV3 9LTDetached£430,000
13 Aug 20106 WV3 9LTDetached£431,000
30 Jun 2010WASHINGTON COTTAGE WV3 9LTDetached£452,500
27 Aug 2008WESTWOOD WV3 9LTDetached£395,000
28 Jun 20073 WV3 9LTSemi-detached£249,995
8 Jun 200610 WV3 9LTDetached£495,000
19 May 20067A WV3 9LTSemi-detached£285,000
24 Jun 20055 WV3 9LTSemi-detached£233,000
21 May 20049 WV3 9LTSemi-detached£182,500
30 Jan 20049 WV3 9LTSemi-detached£170,000
6 Jan 20043 WV3 9LTSemi-detached£176,000
29 Nov 200212 WV3 9LTDetached£242,000
29 Aug 2002WASHINGTON COTTAGE WV3 9LTDetached£350,000
17 Jul 2000FAIRWAYS WV3 9LTDetached£179,000
22 Mar 20005 WV3 9LTSemi-detached£110,000
29 Aug 1997WASHINGTON COTTAGE WV3 9LTDetached£185,000
25 Apr 19974 WV3 9LTDetached£97,500
23 Aug 19961 WV3 9LTDetached£125,000
31 Jul 199610 WV3 9LTDetached£199,000
30 May 1996FAIRWAYS WV3 9LTDetached£137,500

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 150 m². Most common: House, detached (12); House, semi-detached (3); Bungalow, detached (2). Built: 1930-1949 (7); 1900-1929 (6); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 addresses)

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 E (23% of about 1,140 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 2 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: 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.

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, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

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

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WV3 9LTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
WV3 9LSnot 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 37 addresses are between 128 m and 130 m above sea level (129 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
WV3 9LS100%100%100%0%
WV3 9LT100%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 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Bilbrook 139,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Codsall 136,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Finchfield Gardens Merridale160 m
Bus or coach stationWolverhampton Bus Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksFold Street Car Park2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX31.5 km (20 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Newbridge Surgery1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridgnorth Road Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Halfway House Dental1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalNuffield Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police - Tettenhall Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM810 m (0.5 miles)

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 Bantock Park 17 ha180 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 970 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 9,540 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Compton Road Allotments 1.9 ha680 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 17 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is West Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
West ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Wightwick ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wolverhampton LocksLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Aldersley JunctionLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) north
Bradney WoodWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) south
Park CoppiceWood3.2 km (2 miles) south-east
Horseley Fields JunctionLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) east
Orton HillHill3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-west

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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5930
Under 553437

3 of the street's 37 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 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
Uplands Junior SchoolPrimary7–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Peter's Collegiate Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–18630 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Westacre Infant SchoolPrimary3–7640 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Edmund's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Jude's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected 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
Merridale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Michael's Catholic Primary Academy and Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Wolverhampton Girls' High SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bantock Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Warstones Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Castlecroft Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton SikhPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2020, 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
Charnwood WV3 9LSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good23 Apr 2026
Caterlink Ltd @ Uplands Junior School WV3 8BASchool/college/university300 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025
Engleberg WV3 9DSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good9 May 2025
Bantock House & Park WV3 9LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Mar 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.

17 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Other theft4
Vehicle crime3
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near York Crescent (9); On or near Linden Lea (2); On or near Finchfield Gardens (2); On or near Abbots Way (2); On or near Finchdene Grove (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 626 residents in 262 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 age5240
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright60%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)51%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 8 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.

  • WV3 9LT: 35 addresses of 36 in the postcode
  • WV3 9LS: 2 addresses of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

York Crescent · York Avenue · Abbots Way · Bantock Gardens · York Gardens · Sussex Drive · Merridale Grove · Finchdene Grove · Finchfield Road West · Richmond Drive · Surrey Drive · Bramblewood Drive

All the streets in WV3 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.