Highfield Road Northampton

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (NN1), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28701468.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 6, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in West Northamptonshire costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 91% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northampton, about 3 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Abington Park, is about 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 90 to 93 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park Ave Med Cnt & Kings Heath Practice, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 97 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
20261£425,000£425,000£425,000
20252£269,250£268,000£270,500
20241£250,000£250,000£250,000
20221£300,000£300,000£300,000
20191£265,000£265,000£265,000
20161£238,150£238,150£238,150
20131£155,000£155,000£155,000
20093£150,000£132,000£150,600
20063£200,000£181,000£212,000
20052£178,750£175,000£182,500
20042£157,500£130,000£185,000
20024£114,000£95,000£120,750
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Jan 20263 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£425,000
29 Jul 20254 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£270,500
4 Jun 202515 NN1 4SRTerraced£268,000
25 Nov 20247 NN1 4SRTerraced£250,000
16 Dec 20226 NN1 4SRTerraced£300,000
29 Jul 20198 NN1 4SRTerraced£265,000
29 Apr 20168 NN1 4SRTerraced£238,150
13 Jun 201314 NN1 4SRTerraced£155,000
18 Dec 200915 NN1 4SRTerraced£150,600
10 Jul 200911 NN1 4SRTerraced£132,000
17 Apr 200913 NN1 4SRTerraced£150,000
4 Aug 20063 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£212,000
30 Jun 20063 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£200,000
12 May 20065 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£181,000
19 Aug 200532 NN1 4SRTerraced£182,500
15 Apr 20052 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£175,000
14 Jun 20044 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£185,000
2 Feb 20044 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£130,000
6 Sep 200214 NN1 4SRTerraced£120,000
30 May 20028 NN1 4SRTerraced£120,750
10 May 200230 NN1 4SRTerraced£108,000
18 Feb 200213 NN1 4SRTerraced£95,000
25 May 20011 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£125,000
18 Sep 200021 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£95,500
25 Aug 200020 NN1 4SRTerraced£92,500
14 Jan 200010 NN1 4SRTerraced£75,500
27 Oct 19992 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£79,995
9 Oct 19988 NN1 4SRTerraced£70,000
26 Nov 199724 NN1 4SRTerraced£77,750
31 Oct 199714 NN1 4SRTerraced£77,500
6 Sep 19963 NN1 4SRSemi-detached£62,000

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

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 91 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1930-1949 (5); 1900-1929 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,934£2,210£2,487£3,039£3,592£4,144£4,973

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (67% of about 670 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.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 24 November 2026: West Northamptonshire Council, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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
NN1 4SRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
NN1 4SNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 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 28 addresses are between 90 m and 93 m above sea level (91 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
NN1 4SN100%91%91%0%
NN1 4SR100%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 stationsNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Wellingborough 981,000 journeys in 2024–2514.4 km (8.9 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 57 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brookland Road Abington130 m
Bus or coach stationNorthampton Bus Interchange2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksCo-Op Barry Road Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN54.5 km (34 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Ave Med Cnt & Kings Heath Practice400 m (0.2 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Avenue Pharmacy400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery410 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt Edmund's Hospital1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationNorthamptonshire Police2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest JK Londis Cashzone300 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abington Park 46 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 540 m²910 m (0.6 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Racecourse 48 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7.5 ha550 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 82 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Matthew, a listed building (Grade II*), 460 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MatthewListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) south-west
New WaysListed building, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Abington Abbey (Museum)Listed building, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) south
Church of Saint Peter and Saint PaulListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Battle of Northampton 1460Registered battlefield3.6 km (2.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The SpinneyWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Brickyard SpinneyWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Round SpinneyWood3.2 km (2 miles) north-east
Little Warren SpinneyWood3.3 km (2.1 miles) north
Long SpinneyWood3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-west
Storton's PitsLake or reservoir4.5 km (2.8 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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)13.94015

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 5920
Under 552628

2 of the street's 28 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire 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
Cedar Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–11290 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wallace Road Nursery SchoolNursery3–5450 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Kingsley Primary SchoolPrimary4–11460 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Eastfield AcademyPrimary2–11940 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stimpson Avenue AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northampton School for GirlsSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Malcolm Arnold Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Malcolm Arnold Preparatory School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Barry Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Headlands Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Weston Favell CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Parklands Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2023, 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
St Matthews Nursery & Pre-school NN3 2JBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good25 Jan 2024
Adventurers Hall NN1 4SJMobile caterer160 m5 Very good16 Aug 2024
Blossoms NN2 7HJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good12 Oct 2026
Casa Sabrosa NN2 7HJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Londis Supermarket NN3 2JNRetailers - other300 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Jan 2019
St James Super Stores NN3 2JNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m4 Good13 Mar 2025
Classic News NN3 2HYRetailers - other310 mExempt
Lotus NN3 2JNTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m4 Good12 May 2025
China star NN3 2JNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good21 May 2026
Dragon Inn NN2 7EDTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m2 Improvement necessary2 May 2025
nisg NN2 7HJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 mAwaiting inspection
Kingsley Park Working Mens Club NN2 7HJPub/bar/nightclub330 m4 Good25 Feb 2019
Tesco NN2 7HJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets330 m5 Very good17 Oct 2013
Fairfield News NN2 7EDRetailers - other340 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Nov 2019
Samuels NN3 2QYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good8 Oct 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.

97 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Anti-social behaviour24
Criminal damage and arson12
Vehicle crime9
Other theft8
Burglary6
Public order3
Drugs2
Other crime2
Shoplifting2
Possession of weapons2

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Drive (20); On or near Tudor Road (16); On or near Chestnut Court (13); On or near Kettering Road (10); On or near Park Avenue North (8).

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: 376 residents in 122 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 age4240
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Blossoms (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NN2 7HJ) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 12 October 2026) found 30 October 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.

Nearby streets

Park Avenue North · Brookland Crescent · Tudor Road · The Vale · Linden Road · Brookland Road · The Drive · Broadway · Lindsay Avenue · Hawthorn Road · Chestnut Road · Beechcroft Gardens

All the streets in NN1 and across West Northamptonshire.

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.