King Street Wolverhampton

53 addresses across 5 postcodes (WV1), about 130 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 44827280.

  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Wolverhampton costs £2,539 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 11% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wolverhampton, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, St Peter's Gardens, is about 90 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 157 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 54 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Thornley Street Surgery, about 300 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,160 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 4% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,631 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
Most recent sales (7)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Nov 202417 WV1 1STOther£150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Nov 202417 WV1 1STOther£105,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Aug 202425A WV1 1STOther£420,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Feb 202326 WV1 1STOther£185,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Mar 202115 WV1 1STOther£275,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Dec 202015 WV1 1STOther£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Sep 201711 WV1 1STOther£140,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 2018 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 47 m². Most common: Flat (4). Built: before 1900 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 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 A (75% of about 2,330 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: 15.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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 September 2026 to 8 September 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 3 September 2026 to 14 October 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 3 September 2026 to 15 September 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 3 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent 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, 1 at medium risk and 7 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
WV1 1STnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
WV1 1AGnot in 2 or 3
WV1 3JXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WV1 1HWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
WV1 3ENnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© 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 addresses are about 157 m above sea level.

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
WV1 1HW11%11%11%0%
WV1 1ST62%62%62%0%
WV1 3EN86%86%86%0%
WV1 3JX100%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 2024–25530 m (0.3 miles)
Coseley 520,000 journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Bilbrook 139,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWolverhampton St George's (West Midlands Metro)250 m
Pipers Row (West Midlands Metro)260 m
Wolverhampton Station (West Midlands Metro)490 m (0.3 miles)
Bus stops50 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 91 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King Street Wolverhampton60 m
Bus or coach stationWolverhampton Bus Station260 m
Car parks16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Combined Parking Solutions40 m
EV charging points15 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp Pulse340 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX29.6 km (18 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thornley Street Surgery300 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots120 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery100 m
HospitalWolverhamptom Recovery Hospital Prescriber520 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationBilston Street Police Station220 m
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone90 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 St Peter's Gardens 3,320 m²90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)West Park 19 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 600 m²680 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldFowler Playing Fields 24 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Art Gallery and Museum, a listed building (Grade II*), 110 m north. 132 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 10 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Art Gallery and MuseumListed building, Grade II*110 m north
Anglian cross 25m south of St Peter's Collegiate ChurchScheduled monument140 m north-west
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I160 m north-west
Former Wolverhampton County CourtListed building, Grade II*160 m east
Grand TheatreListed building, Grade II*180 m north-east
West ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Horseley Fields JunctionLake or reservoir910 m (0.6 miles) east
Wolverhampton LocksLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north
Stowlawn WoodWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Aldersley JunctionLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Park HillHill3 km (1.8 miles) south
The GorgeValley4.7 km (2.9 miles) south

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)16.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)13.44015

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 5970
Under 554754

7 of the street's 54 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
Thomas Telford University Technical CollegeSecondary11–19810 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
West Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton SikhPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woden Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Graiseley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
SS Mary and John's Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Grove Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dunstall Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Eastfield Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Eastfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Stephen's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Merridale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Meltdown Cookies WV1 1STRetailers - other30 m5 Very good5 Dec 2025
Grain WV1 1STPub/bar/nightclub30 m5 Very good28 Jul 2026
Eat 99 WV1 3JXTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m1 Major improvement necessary16 Apr 2026
Old Still WV1 1STPub/bar/nightclub30 m5 Very good23 May 2022
Smoke And Sweets WV1 1STRetailers - other30 m4 Good10 Jun 2026
Starbucks WV1 3EYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good14 Jun 2022
THE IRISH WOLF & HARP LTD WV1 1HNPub/bar/nightclub50 m4 Good5 Mar 2026
Grace Hand Superstore WV1 1HQRetailers - other50 m1 Major improvement necessary16 Mar 2026
Wolverhampton KFC WV1 3BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good20 Nov 2024
German Donor Kebab WV1 3BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good6 Dec 2025
Burger & Sauce WV1 3AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Virk Cut Price WV1 1DGRetailers - other60 m5 Very good26 Sep 2024
The Posada WV1 1DGPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good25 Jun 2022
Spudley Street Mobile caterer60 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Costa Coffee WV1 3ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good24 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.

1,631 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences670
Shoplifting229
Public order149
Drugs120
Other theft92
Criminal damage and arson91
Anti-social behaviour88
Theft from the person41
Possession of weapons37
Bicycle theft37
Burglary28
Robbery27
Other crime15
Vehicle crime7

Most of these are attached to: On or near Police Station (296); On or near Market Street (233); On or near Cheapside (222); On or near King Street (202); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (129).

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: 1,159 residents in 173 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 age2340
Children under 152%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)4%61%
Owned outrightunder 1%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented79%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work32%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)34%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van20%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram10%4%
By any public transport, including bus39%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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 Zaman Shop (retailers - other, WV1 4LR) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Bodrum Delight (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WV1 4LR) now 1 Major improvement necessary, was 4 Good (rated 24 September 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.

  • WV1 1ST: 43 addresses of 44 in the postcode
  • WV1 1AG: 6 addresses
  • WV1 3JX: 2 addresses of 14 in the postcode
  • WV1 1HW: 1 address of 35 in the postcode
  • WV1 3EN: 1 address of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wheeler's Fold · Princess Street · Wheelers Fold · Woolpack Alley · Dudley Street · Queen Square · Woolpack Street · Queen Square · Princess Alley · Market Street · Dudley Street · Castle Street

All the streets in WV1 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.