Kipling Drive Exeter

34 addresses across 2 postcodes (EX2), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14200456.

17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £115,000 across 1 sale. 22 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 1, C: 15, D: 4, E: 1). 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Exeter costs £2,495 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Marsh Barton, about 1.7 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Ludwell Valley Park, is about 300 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 19 to 27 m above sea level. None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Wonford Green Surgery, about 240 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km. About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 152 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£115,000£115,000£115,000
20231£145,000£145,000£145,000
20212£266,250£262,500£270,000
20201£177,000£177,000£177,000
20151£192,500£192,500£192,500
20101£170,000£170,000£170,000
20091£160,000£160,000£160,000
20071£180,000£180,000£180,000
20062£118,475£77,000£159,950
20032£105,000£80,000£130,000
20021£48,100£48,100£48,100
19991£45,500£45,500£45,500
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Jun 20262 EX2 5BUFlat or maisonette£115,000Leasehold.
7 Jul 20232A EX2 5BUFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
28 Sep 202120 EX2 5BXSemi-detached£270,000
7 Apr 202112 EX2 5BUSemi-detached£262,500
31 Jul 2020TRELAWNEY EX2 5BXSemi-detached£177,000
21 Aug 201516 EX2 5BXSemi-detached£192,500
8 Jan 20107 EX2 5BUTerraced£170,000
21 Dec 20098 EX2 5BUSemi-detached£160,000
31 Jul 20073 EX2 5BUSemi-detached£180,000
15 Dec 200610 EX2 5BUSemi-detached£159,950
27 Mar 20062 EX2 5BUFlat or maisonette£77,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 20032A EX2 5BUFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
5 Jun 20037 EX2 5BUTerraced£130,000
18 Nov 200210 EX2 5BUSemi-detached£48,100
8 Feb 199919 EX2 5BXTerraced£45,500
11 Sep 19987 EX2 5BUTerraced£45,761
22 Dec 199716 EX2 5BXSemi-detached£49,950

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 50 m². Most common: Flat (10); House, semi-detached (8); Bungalow, end-terrace (2). Built: 1950-1966 (8); 1930-1949 (8); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (7); rented (private) (6); owner-occupied (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Exeter in 2026-27: Band D £2,495 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,664£1,941£2,218£2,495£3,050£3,604£4,159£4,991

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (55% of about 650 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 1.0 km

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 30 September 2026.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
EX2 5BUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely
EX2 5BXnot 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 34 addresses are between 19 m and 27 m above sea level (22 m on average); the ground rises about 8 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
EX2 5BU100%100%100%0%
EX2 5BX100%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 stationsMarsh Barton 109,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km
Polsloe Bridge 189,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km
Digby and Sowton 968,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m, 32 within 800 m; nearest Chestnut Avenue Wonford100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Exeter City Centre2.0 km
Ferry terminalTopsham Ferry Landing4.2 km
Car parksTriangle Car Park1.8 km
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km; nearest Wenea910 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT6.7 km
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL76.8 km

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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Wonford Green Surgery240 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Well240 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Veysey Close (Dental Surgery)1.0 km
HospitalRd & E Hospital420 m
Police stationExeter Volunteer Police Cadets1.5 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Morrisons Daily - Exeter460 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; nearest Ludwell Valley Park 45 ha300 m
Play area9 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 980 m²370 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 9,440 m²370 m
AllotmentsWhipton Lane Allotments 3.1 ha1.1 km

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 45 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Loye's Chapel and cross, Rifford Road, a scheduled monument, 720 m north-east. 58 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Loye's Chapel and cross, Rifford RoadScheduled monument720 m north-east
Old MatfordListed building, Grade II*760 m north-west
Church of Saint Michael and All AngelsListed building, Grade II*760 m north
Medieval bridge and part of a late medieval conduit under Holloway StreetScheduled monument1.7 km west
Larkbeare HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km west
Northernhay and Rougemont GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pyne's HillHill1.0 km south-east
Salmon PoolLake or reservoir1.2 km south-west
Duck's MarshWetland1.2 km south-west
Clyst Heathfield PlantationWood2.5 km east
Knowle HillHill2.6 km south-west
Fairy DellValley4.1 km north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 553434

None of the street's 34 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road or rail traffic.

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
Chestnut Nursery School - Exeter Nursery Schools FederationNursery2–5180 m No published inspection
Wynstream Primary School AcademyPrimary3–11210 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Isca AcademySecondary11–16840 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Woodwater AcademyPrimary3–111.0 km Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.1 km No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Leonard's (CofE) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.4 km No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Peter's Church of England Aided SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ladysmith Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.6 km Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladysmith Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Clyst Heath Nursery and Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km No published inspection
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Nicholas Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Costcutter EX2 6AURetailers - other220 m3 Generally satisfactory14 May 2025
Wonford Community & Learning Centre EX2 6NFOther catering premises240 m5 Very good19 Nov 2019
Well Pharmacy EX2 6NFRetailers - other240 mExempt
Lidl UK EX2 6NFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good24 Oct 2024
Wonford House, The Cedars & Jasmine Lodge EX2 5AFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Choy's Takeaway EX2 5DATakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good4 Dec 2024
Heavitree And Wonford United Services Club EX2 5DEPub/bar/nightclub300 m4 Good30 Sep 2024
Sal's cafe EX2 5DARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m4 Good9 Sep 2025
Exeter Fast Food EX2 6AZTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m3 Generally satisfactory22 May 2025
Wonford Methodist Church EX2 6NGOther catering premises340 m5 Very good11 Apr 2023
Hospiscare EX2 5JJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m5 Very good2 Dec 2025
Cafe RILD EX2 5DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Savour @ The Centre For Women's Health EX2 5DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m5 Very good17 Jun 2025
Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre Buffet Bar EX2 5DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m5 Very good1 Nov 2023
TLC Restaurant EX2 5DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m5 Very good19 Feb 2025

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.

152 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences93
Criminal damage and arson16
Anti-social behaviour10
Public order8
Shoplifting6
Other theft5
Other crime5
Burglary3
Possession of weapons2
Drugs2
Vehicle crime1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dryden Road (60); On or near Magnolia Avenue (34); On or near Burnthouse Lane (27); On or near Kipling Drive (16); On or near Browning Close (11).

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 169 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 age3840
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle32%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%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

Browning Close · Dryden Road · Magnolia Avenue · Well Oak Park · Silver Birch Close · Malvern Gardens · Lilac Road · Brooke Avenue · Coronation Road · Draycott Close · Scott Avenue · Ronchetti Way

All the streets in EX2 and across Exeter.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.