Howe Crescent Willenhall, Walsall

50 addresses across 2 postcodes (WV12), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41901796.

  • Sales: 28 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £170,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 39 homes have an energy certificate (C: 13, D: 21, E: 4, F: 1).
  • Flood: 8 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bloxwich, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rough Wood Country Park, is about 790 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 145 to 146 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 50 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is New Invention Health Centre, about 690 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 48 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
20251£170,000£170,000£170,000
20242£151,125£142,250£160,000
20232£173,500£162,000£185,000
20211£165,000£165,000£165,000
20201£115,000£115,000£115,000
20191£110,000£110,000£110,000
20172£110,500£106,000£115,000
20161£86,000£86,000£86,000
20151£67,000£67,000£67,000
20141£90,000£90,000£90,000
20132£91,000£85,000£97,000
20092£75,500£58,500£92,500
Most recent sales (28)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Mar 20251 WV12 5RWTerraced£170,000
26 Jun 202437 WV12 5RWTerraced£142,250
16 Jan 202433 WV12 5RWSemi-detached£160,000
2 Nov 202318 WV12 5RWTerraced£162,000
20 Oct 202355 WV12 5RWTerraced£185,000
14 May 202155 WV12 5RWTerraced£165,000
1 Jun 20209 WV12 5RWTerraced£115,000
13 Nov 201937 WV12 5RWTerraced£110,000
31 Jan 201853 WV12 5RWTerraced£79,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Nov 20178 WV12 5RWTerraced£94,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Aug 201726 WV12 5RWSemi-detached£115,000
17 Mar 201722 WV12 5RWTerraced£106,000
9 Dec 201655 WV12 5RWTerraced£86,000
20 May 20158 WV12 5RWTerraced£67,000
28 May 201411 WV12 5RWTerraced£90,000
19 Aug 201332 WV12 5RWSemi-detached£97,000
20 Jun 201322 WV12 5RWTerraced£85,000
30 Sep 200953 WV12 5RWTerraced£58,500
30 Apr 200915 WV12 5RWSemi-detached£92,500
19 Dec 200635 WV12 5RWTerraced£84,000
24 Apr 200611 WV12 5RWTerraced£60,000
16 Jul 20047 WV12 5RWTerraced£71,000
27 Feb 20046 WV12 5RWTerraced£78,000
15 Jul 200343 WV12 5RWTerraced£50,000
30 Nov 200129 WV12 5RWTerraced£42,750
14 Mar 199719 WV12 5RWTerraced£33,000
31 Jan 199743 WV12 5RWTerraced£32,000
20 Sep 199616 WV12 5RWSemi-detached£33,500

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

39 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (17); House, semi-detached (11); House, end-terrace (11). Built: 1930-1949 (33); 1900-1929 (4); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (19); owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (29 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Walsall in 2026-27: Band D £2,627 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,752£2,044£2,336£2,627£3,211£3,795£4,379£5,255

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (62% of about 600 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 3 August 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 10 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
WV12 5RWnot in 2 or 3 5 / 2 / 10 unlikely
WV12 5RTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 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 50 addresses are between 145 m and 146 m above sea level (145 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
WV12 5RT100%100%100%0%
WV12 5RW100%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 stationsBloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Walsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Howe Crescent Lane Head80 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Car parksEnsdale Row - Willenhall Car Park2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest evyve Charging Station890 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX26 km (16 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 New Invention Health Centre690 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Acorn Pharmacy630 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery920 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalCygnet Hospital Wolverhampton3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationWillenhall Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone390 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rough Wood Country Park 107 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,750 m²260 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Queens Lea Allotments 1,870 m²600 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 107 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rough WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Allen's RoughWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Sneyd ReservoirLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Pouk HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
The ClumpsWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Sandy FlattsWood3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-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)12.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 554850

2 of the street's 50 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 Walsall: see them on the Walsall page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Lane Head Nursery SchoolNursery3–5440 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Pool Hayes Primary SchoolPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
New Invention Infant SchoolPrimary3–7640 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
New Invention Learning AcademyPrimary7–11640 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Short Heath Junior SchoolPrimary7–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Pool Hayes AcademySecondary11–18730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodlands Academy of LearningPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rosedale Church of England C Infant SchoolPrimary5–7760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willenhall E-ACT AcademySecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Coppice Performing Arts SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oak Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Beacon AcademyPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Synergy WV12 5QUSchool/college/university120 mExempt
Go Karting & Laser Centre WV12 5QYOther catering premises250 m5 Very good18 Sep 2025
Jolly Collier WV12 4QGPub/bar/nightclub280 m4 Good20 Sep 2017
Dizzy Kidz WV12 5AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good9 Jul 2026
Short Heath Methodist Church WV12 5PZOther catering premises330 m4 Good28 Feb 2020
Local Authority Children's Home WV12 4EZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 mExempt
Amery Unionist Club WV12 5RYPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good4 May 2012
The Swan WV12 5QAPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
R & B Foodstore (Nisa) WV12 4JNRetailers - other390 m4 Good23 Oct 2025
Aladdin's Pizza WV12 4JNTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m4 Good15 Apr 2026
Aladdins Willenhall WV12 4JNTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Jan 2026
The Whimsey WV12 4JRPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good17 Oct 2017
Chip Stop WV12 4JRTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory16 Sep 2025
Lane Head Post Office & Stores WV12 4JRRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good15 Apr 2026
Tesco WV12 4JRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good29 Jul 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.

48 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Vehicle crime7
Criminal damage and arson5
Other crime3
Other theft3
Burglary2
Anti-social behaviour2
Possession of weapons2
Public order1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Clift Close (19); On or near Park/Open Space (10); On or near Coppice Lane (5); On or near Knightsbridge Lane (4); On or near Williams Close (4).

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: 568 residents in 229 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 age4340
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van73%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

Nearby streets

Lucknow Road · Edmoor Close · Ezekiel Lane · Barmouth Close · Clift Close · Harlech Road · Holly Close · Knightsbridge Lane · Coppice Lane · Williams Close · Straight Road · Lucknow Road

All the streets in WV12 and across Walsall.

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.